Examples are given of some types of interaction between viewed and museum provided by an experimental computer based nutrition exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Plans are being developed for a museum in which most of the information conveyed will appear through the use of video systems tied to a computer. (CMV)

A two part hypothetical model of education incorporating basic beliefs of man with educational practice is presented for consideration by educators. Basic elements of the model include purpose, experience, formative evaluation, philosophy, knowledge, learning, goals, curriculum, instruction, and parental involvement. Journal may be ordered from…

Alternative technical systems are needed that can be designed, developed, operated, and controlled at the local level. Technology education can provide the knowledge and skills needed to educate citizens. This effort would strengthen basic democratic processes and would develop new sources of energy to sustain a stable technology. (JB)

Examination of the confrontation between patrons and technology in the library focuses on two questions evident when addressing the instruction librarian's role in humanizing technology: whether the library profession can afford to humanize interaction between client and technology, and how instruction librarians can humanize the confrontation.…

Examines some of the specifics of the Stanley House criteria for humanizing information systems. (IRT)

A review of the limitations of open classroom techniques, with a special example drawn from a college English composition course. (CH)

Models and programs exemplifying the thrust toward humanistic education in social studies are described. (KM)

The principal will play a key role in designing educational systems that free the human spirit to exercise initiative, to experiment openly, to enter fully into the enterprise of living and learning as complete people. (Author/WM)

Article lists well known futurists and suggests to teachers that they should no longer try to shape children to fit a static world, but should try to prepare them for a wide range of possible futures. (GB)

Discusses three critical areas of the supervisory function -- curriculum reconstruction, staff development, and humane environment. (JF)

Argues that the adoption of the bureaucratic structure, with its concomitant values, has proven to be incompatible with both intellectual and human development, that a learning environment that promotes simultaneously both intellectual development and humanism must be created, and new forms of organizational structure to achieve goals currently…

In order to study man with any hope of accuracy, the anthropologist must overcome his own ethnocentrism and learn that he must not intervene in the affairs of a people while studying them. The critics of education, as well as educators, should learn how to engage in this process. (Author/JN)