Discusses importance of humanities education for the teacher as well as the child. A teacher education course for developing the humanities in a classroom curriculum is described. (ED)

Educators have the opportunity to instill peaceful sentiments and attitudes in their students. What may be somewhat less obvious is that they also have an obligation to do so. (Author)

The novel is important to teach; there is no one novel, though, that every student needs to read; flexibility and ingenuity are called for. (JH)

This article reports on the new Childhood Education Program at the University of Florida which is described as a humanistic approach to professional preparation of elementary school teachers. (JA)

Article addressed itself to two new approaches to teacher education, with their different emphases, which attempt to remedy what their advocates consider the ineffectiveness of teacher education programs prevalent in the last half century. (Author/RK)

Author discussed a method for making the study of political systems by students interesting, thereby improving learning processes. (RK)

Unfortunately, most college students learning to be teachers learn methods from their English professors, and this can be changed only by extensive experiences in group-centered classrooms. (JH)

Cooperative operational planning among autonomous institutions at the Oklahoma Health Center is demonstrating significant capital and operating cost savings as well as qualitative gains. (Author/MLF)

The computer is perhaps the most sophisticated tool mankind has yet developed but it has often been misused with man made to serve the tool rather than vice versa. This paper attempts to examine the genesis of this chaos, contrast the present situation with the ideal, and present a reasonable alternative. A humanized data service in education is…

The paper explores two efforts to create a Just Community School using Kohlberg's theory of moral judgment as a guide towards definition of educational aims. The paper notes that developmental theory may lead to two rather different legitimate implementation models and notes some interim observations from the two schools. One of the models…

To further supplement the larger conference proceedings held by the Society for Health and Human Values, a smaller Southwest Regional Institute was held in October of 1973. Conference participants examined the rationale for including human values as an area of study in health professional education, the process by which this kind of teaching can…

The accountability system was designed in part to link practice and theory more closely, but educators in the humanities point out that neither everyday experienced nor the affective domain can be accountable in such an explicity system. In the humanities, especially, there is another way of knowing -- unpredictable, unique, often capricious --…

This publication is a compilation of speeches, seminar summaries, and participant reactions and recommendations from the Ninth Annual NEA-CHR Conference printed in both English and Spanish. The conference was designed to present the concept of cultural pluralism and to suggest ways of implementing this concept in instructional programs. The…

In this speech on the education of teachers, the author discusses the following value premises: (a) freedom; (b) personalization of performance goals; (c) inquiry (teacher education must focus on the student's ability to be a responsible inquiry system); (d) knowledge based on usage that will foster social self-actualization in the student…