The purpose of this conference, held in February, 1969, was to examine the desirability and feasibility of focusing national problems more on the family, with the assumption that more concern with the family in planning and implementing national programs would help to: 1) avoid inadvertent damage to families; and 2) use the properties of the…

The benefits of outdoor camping for disturbed boys whose difficulties require treatment outside the home are described. The variety of emotional handicaps handled by group technique and direct experience with natural surroundings at Camp Woodland Springs outside of Dallas, Texas, and the reactions of the boys participating in this residential…

Program descriptions are introduced by theories of the reasons for the apparent low IQ of many black ghetto children. The theories are the genetic, the stimulus deprivation, the expectation, and the learning-exchange theory. Five experiments with ghetto underachievers are described. The first was designed to use token exchange in a remedial class…

The safety education program for Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools was prepared as a simplified guide for teachers to use in grades 1-12. Safety programs in schools should develop knowledge, habits, and attitudes in order to eliminate, as far as possible, the dangers of accidental death or injury to children. It should inform these future…

Jim Donovan conducts a child-centered rather than program-centered classroom. His fifth graders are often problem children but his techniques are useful for all children. He tries to help students develop respect for themselves and others, expand their interest in life, overcome emotional and learning problems, clarify values, and develop positive…

Insight can be gained into the role of specified cultural variables in human development if care is taken in a study to include subcultural variations which can be matched cross-bulturally, to employ well-trained native examiners who have been calibrated cross-culturally, to use techniques which can be defended, and to involve the close and…

The Powell River Project proposes in this progress report to design a curriculum with the Canadian urban environment as a major focus promoting cognitive and affective learnings that are verifiably appropriate using a team of primary teachers as designers. Activities and experiences will be selected which lead the child to learn his role in…

The first of these six papers takes a systematic look at the range of current career guidance methods to determine which are most appropriate to which educational and age levels. A model for implementing career development programs at the senior high school level is presented in the second. General considerations regarding rate of change,…

Part of the rationale underlying this three-part human relations unit (taken from Major Concepts for Social Studies by the Social Studies Curriculum Center at Syracuse) is that students should become aware of the importance of the dignity of each individual, and the young citizen should be striving to work and cooperate with fellow individuals.…

Some of the criticisms that have been leveled at the educational establishment by social analysts are discussed. It is suggested that one of the new realities is that education must be a lifelong process in order to avoid the catastrophe of human obsolescence. The assumptions and elements for a new model of education as a lifelong process are…

This paper outlines a program of inservice training for teachers and administrative school personnel designed to foster a better understanding of the problems involved in the education of children from minority groups within an educational system that is defined and administered by the cultural interests of the dominant social or national…

Four monographs on the subject of humanizing the educational environment are presented in this booklet. The first defines the commitment of the Ohio Education Association to humanizing education and describes the goals and values set for future education. The second discusses the "deprived" child, and the ramifications of this word in terms of the…

This paper presents and discusses a model of a comprehensive educational system committed to humane education. The value of a school experience is determined by the quality of the living experience that occurs in the school. This experience generally does not include at present a systematic realization of humane potential on the elementary level.…

Project STEP was developed at John Reed Middle School, Redding, Connecticut, to investigate the feasibility of directly involving retired citizens in an instructional relationship with learning-disabled junior and senior high school students. The project proposed to demonstrate the effectiveness of techniques for training senior citizens as…

Compares and contrasts the efficiency and work habits of professionally experienced and inexperienced writers. (CRH)