Character education has been gaining attention in public education and teachers and counselors need to understand its underlying philosophy. This article presents information on this new concept in education and compares it with humanistic education. (Author/JDM)

Traditionalists and progressives coexist warily in today's public schools, creating fragmented institutions with no common ethos. Letting teachers start their own schools may bring an end to the pedagogical holy wars. (Author)

At the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, representatives of the politically oppressed middle class in a politically fragmented Germany began to look to education in search for a means of emancipation, with the pedagogical concept of "Bildung" as their central focus. The attractiveness of the concept was also a…

The technical education instructor needs to emphasize certain tenets from the psychology of education in teaching-learning situations: meaningful learning; sequential experiences; success in student learning; purposeful activities; provision for individual differences among learners; knowledge, skills, and attitudinal goals to represent balance…

This document outlines principles of learning that should be followed by teachers of gifted students. Principles include: (1) students' need to experience challenge in the classroom; (2) students' need to attain as much as individual abilities permit; (3) curricular emphasis on students' personal interests; (4) meaningful experiences; (5)…

The U.S. Commissioner of Education, addressing the 1975 Convention, defines vocational education, discusses research on the learning process and implications for vo-ed, quotes George Bernard Shaw in industrialism, and warns against compartmentalizing vocational education. To achieve performance-based learning, individual learner needs are a…

The influence of the pastoral statement by American bishops entitled "Teach as Jesus Did" on Catholic education is assessed. This journal is available from Notre Dame Journal of Education, P.O. Box 686, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556. (DE)

An integrated sociological learning effort in which students take all their work in one semester from a team of sociology professors is described. The course includes simulation games, a two week intensive human relations lab, extensive field trips, and individualized projects. (Author/DE)

This article examines and questions the objectives, materials, techniques, and teacher motivations of affective education. (BD)

Eight lessons for elementary students which increase sensitivity for the aging process are presented. For journal availability see annotation SO 504 171. (DE)

Thematic analysis of the literature related to the preparation of educational administrators suggests that a concern for values and logical analysis is an important aspect of any policy science approach to preparation. (Author/WM)

The implications of current humanistic educational principles in relation to the teaching of games in physical education necessitate new approaches. (PB)

The Learning Center at Old Sturbridge Village is designed to develop a sense of early American lifeways and stimulate creative behavior. (Author)

This article discusses ways in which elementary and secondary teachers can help students understand, cope, and deal more knowingly with hurt feelings. (Author/RM)

Education consists of three important facets: reflection, action, and systematic instruction. Various mixtures of these components should be available to meet the needs of persons at the various stages of life, of persons in different groups, and of persons in different types of communities. (Author/WM)