Reports on computer applications for teaching writing and literature. Reviews typical programs, their characteristic capabilities, their limitations, and their dangers. Suggests ways of acquiring computers, evaluating them, integrating them into educational settings, and developing personalized programs. (RL)

Attempts to make teaching an exact science--and the move toward behavioral objectives has been the foremost of these attempts--is more than just a bother or an inconvenience. It is a genuinely negative force in teaching, a firm and depressing clamp on both teacher and student. (Author/SJL)

Describes the value reasoning approach to values education in which students learn to reason logically about values issues. The approach helps students to think more clearly about their own and others' value judgments, to examine value systems objectively, and to deal constructively with value conflict. (Author)

An exact humanistic context, it is argued, should guide efforts to review the condition of undergraduate education. The contextual implications for students and faculty, as well as for the way curricula are organized and implemented within and among the academic disciplines are discussed. (MLW)

Describes the Emerging Curriculum at the John Hopkins Summer School session. Use of student contracts, content organized in instructional hierarchies, student interaction sheets and individual evaluation made student involvement more meaningful. Illustrates that university graduate courses can be organized as paradigms of humanistic and efficient…

The emotional development of learning disabled (LD) students is an important aspect of their education and LD teachers should consider this need in planning the relationship with their students. Communication between student and teacher is an especially important part of the emotional development process. (PHR)

Contains the second part of the "I Need a Friend" Copy Master Series designed for use by educators to teach children about the responsibilities humans have for their fellow creatures. The stories can be reproduced for distribution to students or used as a coloring book. (Author/SA)

This article describes a pilot program to identify students with irregular attendance and to coordinate follow-up services for them. (SJL)

One of the basic purposes of counseling is to help clients achieve some kind of behavioral and cognitive change that increases their competence in managing interpersonal relationships. The advantages and procedures for increasing clients' interpersonal skills within the context of a counseling group are discussed in this article. (Author)

Provides a rationale for the use of mental imagery as a primary counseling process in structured small group experiences. This purpose is based on assertions that mental imagery can facilitate client learning. (Author)

Describes the history of education and the movement towards a holistic curriculum. Encouraging signs include increased communication and problem solving, movement education, and centering. Needs and barriers are listed. A fairy tale concludes the article. (BEF)

Describes educational programs at Bexar County Detention Center (San Antonio, Texas), which utilize alternative modes of delivery as much as possible. Elements include a media center and a computer assisted instructional system. Discusses the effectiveness of these programs and why they should be implemented in correctional institutions. (CT)

Despite recent attention to liberal and general education, the fine arts and their relationship to liberal education receive scant attention in terms of curricular reform at the institutional level. It is suggested that the fine arts should be an integral part of the undergraduate curriculum. (Author/MLW)

Introduces "Facing History," a recent innovative use of an historical event, the Holocaust, as a means of educating students and teachers to the meaning of such things as human dignity, morality, conflict, decision making, survival, and individual responsibility. (JD)

Emphasizes that reading is a whole person process based on understanding the message rather than on isolated skills. (MKM)