Humanistic education is a systematic, conscious attempt to put into practice the best we know about the nature of human beings and how they learn. Humanistic education maintains that what students experience about themselves and their world is far too important for education to overlook. (Author/IRT)

Liberal arts education is described as both flexible and durable since its formulation. Though current pressures tend to fragment the senses of self and knowledge, the liberal arts, it is suggested, can reaffirm the values of wholeness and excellence. (Author/MLW)

Suggests that, while much of teaching business communications is journeywork, emphasizing audience and response means that there is a humanistic element also. (TJ)

Describes how one school implemented a program to humanize schools. (Author/JM)

Argues that multimodal education which emphasizes the commonalities among children is needed to help handicapped children experience a feeling of belonging in the regular classroom. Discusses a number of educational programs and a sample lesson which have multimodal properties. (SS)

Authors provide guidelines for a program utilizing learning stations designed to motivate, stimulate, and guide affective and cognitive education at higher levels of thinking for academically gifted students. This approach to enrichment is defined, and the role of the teacher as facilitator is considered. (SBH)

The successful development of a basic movement program depends on the teacher's ability to recognize and to work effectively with varying levels of student motor and cognitive proficiency. (LH)

Individual Humanities aims at "training independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of the community their highest life problem" by studying the lives of persons who have achieved independence of action and significant service to other human beings. Describes a course designed to develop students…

Defends the value of teaching physics-and-society courses in a society that is concerned with social issues. (MLH)

The importance of training the child to function within the broad confines of an externally-defined reality and to realize his/her freedom of choice and personal responsibility is discussed. (RW)

Counselors developing evidence on the potency of affective education programs find that student autobiographies are a rich source of data. This article describes a system for counting words that relates to self, home, and school and how the frequency counts within categories discriminate among students by gender and academic classification.…

Article states that learning, like all aspects of human development, results from interaction with others. The role of the teacher in establishing communication in the classroom and providing an example of openness and involvement is emphasized. (RW)

Reviews, from the perspective of a school counselor, basic tenets of two contemporary educational trends, optional alternative education and deliberate psychological education. Describes blending of these trends at ALPHA (Alternative Learning Program for the High School Age), a public alternative high school located in Livonia, Michigan.…

Explores identity formation issues associated with low self-esteem in the transvestite population. Research showed significantly higher self-esteem for non-cross-dressers (N=27) than for cross-dressers (N=27). Focuses on relevant counseling issues when working with the transvestite population and proposes a humanistic and non-pathological…