Styles influencing curriculum development -- management models, liberal non-intervention, and the exclusion of affective for cognitive objectives -- fail to give an account of personal man in his culture. Through "cultivation of soul" some teachers provide a rational way to respond to the weaknesses of overly rationalized learning. (JH)

This two-part essay is a critical look at the core curriculum in the American college: a diagnosis and call for action. Several assumptions are made: that the college curriculum is a living and evolving part of human culture (and conversely, that it is not value-free); that higher education has value beyond the functions of socialization and…

This commencement address stresses three obligations that colleges and universities must assume to strengthen the intellectual and moral fiber of the United States: (1) colleges underscore the unity of life on earth; (2) a college education must be a truly humanizing experience, a process that stresses the dignity of life and deepens the…

Describes the decline of the traditional discussion centers in home, school and church and the mushrooming of literature and groups centering around values clarification. (Author)

Colleges are in a leadership position. How they conduct themselves can ignite educational advancements that benefit society. To date they have taught about the merits of open education. Now they are called on to put into practice the very innovations they have espoused. (Author)

Dialogue, though a broad concept, may be characterized as the interaction of individuals engaged in the process of human growth. These individuals, who differ in values, needs, and orientations, communicate in a mode without static elements, rules, or dogmas. The application of dialogue-centered learning to the classroom is explained. (BJG)

Consultation in organization development offers methods for encouraging staff members to collaborate humanistically in solving their own problems. (Author)

The affective and developmental approaches to moral education are described as inadequate, while the cognitive approach based on moral knowledge, moral reasoning, and the study of ethics is described as defensible and preferable, even though difficult to implement in public schools. (DW)

This publication clarifies the basic education movement by placing it in a historical and philosophical context. In many ways, the basic education movement of the 1970s is part of a continuum of similar movements in American education that have occurred with almost clocklike regularity--appearing in rather regular cycles since the 1930s. First,…

The California Legislature asked the State Department of Education to identify good school programs in the areas of self-concept, interpersonal skills, and parenting. This report describes various ways schools have improved programs and extracts factors or elements common to all the improvement efforts. Reports of visits to 12 exemplary programs…

The monograph details results of an evaluation of the Inside/Out program, a television film series in health education designed to increase the interpersonal and situational problem solving ability of 8- to 10-year-old children. Analysis of student attitude measures is said not to have indicated any changes in perceived isolation, perceived…

This workshop, sponsored by the Department of Instructional Media, Utah State University, gave special consideration to the relationship between the art and science of reading, and developing self-awareness. Dr. Jean E. Lowrie addressed her papers to reading maturity, reading guidance, and reading programs on an international level. Dr. Stan…

This dissertation describes the development and evaluation of course materials entitled "Confluent Math: A Multidisciplinary Thinking-Feeling Approach to Twentieth Century Mathematics." The goals of the materials were: (1) to develop understanding and appreciation of logical axiomatic structure; (2) to examine major philosophic ideas relating to…

The old argument of humanism versus behaviorism is slowly being replaced by a synthesis of these two foundations of thought. This slow professional recognition of synthesis is due to three basic shortcomings in the professional community rather than extreme differences in ideological thought. They are: (1) psychological terminology being equated…

The paper describes a program to teach high school students with emotional and behavior problems to count their feelings, thereby improving their self concept. To aid in instruction, a hierarchy was developed which involved four phases: counting tasks completed and tasks not completed, counting independent actions in class, counting perceptions of…