Discusses the question, What kind of contribution can education make to supplementing what takes place in the political arena so that future generations will be less prone to define their personal and national self-interest primarily in adversarial and military terms? (Author/MM)

Behaviorist teaching of communication skills can interfere with learning of humanistic nursing. Interpretive inquiry can help students experience the transformative power for relationships and develop confidence and trust in their capacity for relational nursing practice. (Contains 20 references.) (SK)

In administrator interviews and a survey of 395 medical school faculty (72% responded), faculty prioritized the following learning needs: sustaining vitality, life balance, meaningful work, relationships, and personal growth. Administrators ranked the following needs for faculty: time management, teamwork, and improved performance. Junior faculty…

The article describes an approach to infusing human dignity into the social studies curriculum through (1) planned instruction, (2) teacher-child interaction, and (3) school responses to unacceptable behavior. Recommended practices for each of the three components are offered. (DB)

When serving special needs children under the age of 24 months, two divergent curricular approaches should be fused: a narrow curriculum focusing educational stimulation on the area of risk or disability, and a broad curriculum supporting the child's general humanity by making available a comprehensive array of experiences. (Author/JDD)

The paper discusses the importance of developing gifted students' leadership potential to bring about world peace. Gifted children's sensitivity in social, moral, and ethical awareness should be nurtured through appropriate curricula, understanding of real-life problems, awareness of worldwide news, and direct communication with other gifted…

This article introduces this issue of "PTA Today" on multiculturalism and cultural awareness; it notes the first theme of the PTA founders nearly 100 years ago--All Children Are Our Children. (SM)

Briefly sketches the history of education in New Zealand prior to publication of the "Picot Report" in 1988. Shows how Picot recommendations have been subverted and comments on the effects of changes in the principal's role. Managerialism must be contested if humanistic educational values are to be preserved. (17 references) (MLH)

Many critical educators claim that knowledge construction and production in education are tools for dominating and domesticating people, not enlightening or emancipating them. This article analyzes the nature of knowledge and the subject/object relationship in knowledge production. The contradictory functions of knowledge production are best…

This critique of a paper by Danny Weil (EC 606 211) argues that movement toward multicultural literacy is already occurring in schools and that the "glass" of multicultural literacy should be perceived as half-full rather than half-empty. Attention now needs to be focused on the "hows" of multicultural education rather than the "shoulds." (JDD)

Examines how Russo's humanistic-critical theory for social-action integration requires shifting staff development focused on knowing and caring about others to self-development that includes everyone. Rationale, resources, and successful action-practice models support and extend Russo's theory for responsible social-action education in a…

A humanistically oriented counseling background has both positive and negative influences on becoming a successful administrator in higher education. Information from former Association for Humanistic Education and Development officers who have moved into administrative roles provides insight on these influences. (Author)

Students and clients who do not seek counseling voluntarily often are characterized in a negative light and receive services that are prescriptive and forced, resembling a rigid philosophy. An alternative and more humanistic approach is that of solution-focused counseling, which emphasizes therapeutic collaboration. (Author)

Nursing education is shifting from focus on behaviorist to humanistic outcomes, a shift rooted in critical social theory. New curricular approaches emphasize autonomy, social responsibility, subjectivity, emancipation, and empowerment. These tenets have application to the current milieu of health care. (SK)

Presents strategies for making instruction more emotionally sound based on the FEASP (fear, envy, anger, sympathy, pleasure) approach. Highlights include the roles of emotions in cognitive instructional design, in motivational design of instruction, in affective education, and in emotional education; and a framework for Emotional Design of…