Current literary study routinely omits even the most cursory treatment of the interactive quality of literature, focusing too narrowly on form and content and treating the story as an end in itself. Similarly, the college curriculum is offered in fragments, with little regard for the centrality of the humanities. (Author/MSE)

The authors state that liberal education courses help police officers understand and even challenge their own organizational culture. They describe a program for which they are the faculty that aims to expose police officers to views different from their own in order to challenge their perspectives. (CH)

Addresses socio-political implications of open and distance learning (ODL) technology, which is viewed as a new form of marketing for the distribution of knowledge. The influence of information technology is discussed, the nature and the purpose of post-modern knowledge is described, and challenges to humanistic education are discussed. (36…

The author examines integration of blind or visually impaired and other disabled children into society as a way of achieving a far-reaching goal--mainstreaming--whereby the differences inherent to each individual are taken for granted as part of the human variety underlying the various communities and groupings that compose society. (Author)

Apollo High School in Simi Valley, California, is motivating at-risk students to strive for success by providing them with attention, acceptance, appreciation, and affection. (TE)

Addresses the need for and the problem of organizing a science curriculum around contextual settings and science stories that serve to involve and motivate students to develop an understanding of the world that is rooted in the scientific and humanistic traditions. Presents a conceptual development model and a proposed program of activities. (76…

Presents a humanistic, ecological approach to cooperative learning and science education, hypothesizing that science teaching should be a hands-on, cooperative experience based on principles of ecology. The article discusses implications for the classroom, the humanistic approach, ecological perspectives, and synergic thinking. (SM)

Since the arts humanize the curriculum while affirming the interconnectedness of all things, they are a powerful means to improve general education. Schools that overlook the arts are creating a less civilized generation. The arts provide a more comprehensive, insightful education because they invite students to explore the emotional, intuitive,…

Argues that instructors in the psychology of women need to incorporate scholarship on ethnicity into their courses. Proposes a structure for incorporation that organizes course discussions around major themes. Suggests films, topics, exercises, and popular books that could be used. Discusses the implications of the incorporation for other…

This article proposes a critical multicultural literacy, provided through a curriculum that affords students the opportunity to enter empathetically within cultural points of view disparate from their own. Three underlying tenets of a critical multicultural literacy are discussed: educational equity, prejudice reduction, and understanding the…

The article compares the views of Roberto Assagioli in the 1960 monograph, "The Education of Gifted and Super-Gifted Children," with those of current writers in gifted education. The article finds that, after 28 years, Assagioli's humanistic ideas are still valid. (DB)

Outlines the context in which counseling operates in schools. Discusses issues that arise from the location of counseling skills and practice of counseling in the framework of pastoral care and education, both from historical perspective and current educational climate. Considers ways in which counseling and counseling skills might be more…

The 1998 presidential address for the Association for the Study of Higher Education shares comments of graduate students in higher education. Suggests that both students and faculty desire a learning community based on an ethic of caring and love in a classroom context. (DB)

Argues for an integration of moral education and sex education such that the primary values being taught would relate to the general treatment of human beings. Suggests that teaching about fantasy and "deviance" are the most important aspects of sex education to prepare boys to be "good" sex partners rather than perpetrators of abuse. (DSK)

This article offers an abbreviated curriculum to help middle school students learn to use humorous strategies to cope with stress. An introductory discussion reviews the literature on coping and the benefits of humor. Outlined for the curriculum are student goals, unit concepts and generalizations, differentiated learner objectives, differentiated…