Based on recognition of the apparent inadequacy of didactic methods in drug abuse education, a staff development model was planned and implemented which sought to bring about the personal involvement of teachers and students. The program involves in-service training, curriculum development and affective education. Evaluation suggests program goals…

Discusses the dissatisfactions beneath the calm surface of the suburban high school and suggests humanistic education and communication among students, teachers, administrators, and parents as ways of resolving the dissatisfactions. (IRT)

This article treats the problems of opening the structure of existing outdoor education programs to keep pace with two open-ended teaching strategies being used in the classrooms. Obstacles to this open structure are discussed and the need for a humanistic, discovery approach in outdoor education is stressed. (MA)

A humanistic approach to teaching fluid mechanics is described which minimizes lecturing, increases professor-student interaction, uses group and individual problem solving sessions, and allows for student response. (BB)

Sister Genevieve Speltz is interviewed regarding her views about music education. Among other things, she believes that the aesthetic experience of music is the primary goal of music education today. (KC)

A program designed to strengthen affective competencies in a classroom situation is described. (JD)

This story is a plea to humanize mathematics teaching by having students actually participate in mathematics. (MN)

This study was undertaken to develop an affective, small-group experience for helping children cope with death and to investigate the effectiveness of the experience in reducing children's anxieties about death. The generally positive results suggest that affective death education experiences such as this one should be made available to children.…

The article focuses on six components (physical environment, psychological climate, curriculum, materials, assessment and evaluation, and teacher facilitation) necessary for successful affective education for learning disability students. (CL)

Suggests that "global citizenship" become prime order of business in American education, using three assumptions: primacy of species survival; impact of distant events upon proximate reality; and enrichment from sense of extended community. Author recommends curriculum in international interdependence. Author addressed Shell-Faculty Forum in…

Advocates the pragmatic approach to general education, suggesting that the educationally well-rounded occupational student advances more rapidly and goes higher in his career field. Stresses the importance of "general education courses", which make the student proficient and knowledgeable in his field and "supporting courses" which teach basic…

The author argues that there exists an essential relationship between self-expression and gaining a personally significant understanding of the world. This relationship encompasses notions of freedom, personal autonomy, and authenticity. Discusses the inadequacies of a currently popular model for educational practice. For journal availability, see…

During the sixties, community college planners were conservative in their attitudes toward integrated humanities or interdisciplinary courses, but two-year college enrollments have changed and so have those attitudes. Examples of current approaches are described. (LBH)

With the expansion of the technological revolution, the danger of dehumanization is ever present. Governmental domination of individual and social thought, coupled with economic manipulation, are areas of concern relating to basic educational philosophy. (RAO)

This paper analyzes and raises questions about two existing moral education programs, and suggests directions for future research in this area. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, 1975. (Author/BP)