Ideally, the act of performance involves the whole body of the performer. The solo performer of any poem (defined broadly to include all types of literature) becomes the poem; the poem takes flesh in the form of the reader. In this situation, the reader gives the audience a close-up, in which small gestures and minimal movements assume massive…

The Institutional Goals Inventory (IGI) was administered to full-time faculty and administrators at Oakton Community College (OCC) in fall 1974. In order to determine whether or not OCC responses were similar to responses obtained at other public community colleges, OCC faculty and administrator responses on 17 goal areas in the IGI were compared…

The purpose of the study was to analyze the opinions of distributive education leaders about issues in distributive education and to ascertain their opinions on the importance of these issues in determining effective operating procedures in distributive education. The 30 leaders were determined on the basis of the number of times their names were…

This book attempts to define and discuss language in relation to the processes of teaching and learning at the elementary level. Three specific themes are developed. The first theme is that considering language as virtually synonymous with "words" or "vocabulary" seriously limits the understanding an individual can have of the complexity of…

Humanistic psychologists now embrace many of the same principles which served as the basis for Piaget's theory. These same theories were described earlier by John Locke and Immanuel Kant, and were the basis of the new "Humanism" movement in Germany in the 18th century. If one considers humanistic psychology as a kind of culmination of…

This curriculum guide was designed to motivate students to read, write, talk, and listen by reacting to actual experiences which they have encountered. The guide is divided into three major sections: English Curriculum for Grade Nine, English Curriculum for Grade Ten, and The Basic Language Arts Skills Plan. The first section discusses such topics…

This paper argues that many English teachers are not prepared to be language teachers and are unwilling and unready to shift their educational focus from literature to language, a shift which is necessary in light of students' needs today. Numerous suggestions are made for improving language courses: design courses that offer a strong background…

In recognition of the past and potential contributions of American Indian philosophy, this book presents discussions which came out of a week long conference at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Conference participants included Native American elders (representatives from the Navajo, Mohawk, Crow, Kiowa, Pueblo, and Arapaho tribes) and officials of…

Formalism, an amalgamation of literary critical methods originating in the 1920's, which emphasize close textual analysis of the literary work itself, is declining as the predominant critical approach due to its self-imposed limitations. New perspectives, attempting to counter the fragmentation of formalism and demonstrating an awareness of the…

Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts) has chosen to place special emphasis upon the nature of language and the various ways in which man uses language to communicate. From a wide variety of possible curricula which address these concerns, the Committee on Language and Communication proposes to emphasize certain disciplines usually found in…

The growing complexity of urban industrial society necessitates adequate planning techniques to insure future livability, but traditional methods of training planners have emphasized technology and ignored the human element. To remedy this deficiency, training programs should be expanded to include the social and political aspects of planning.…

In the four major speeches presented the question under consideration was basically how can the school curriculum best be developed to enable the individual to realize his potential as an independent entity in a mass society. The first speech, "Individuality, Society, and Education" considers this problem from a philosophical base. In the second,…

Twenty-one guidelines for the conduct of business education in public schools were prepared by two conference groups of teachers, supervisors and teacher educators in business education. In this bulletin, business education is used to include both office education and distributive education. While business education is acknowledged as an aspect of…

This study sought to outline the general consensus of sociologists, educators, planners, administrators, and social reformers in India as to the nature of adult literacy; to examine drawbacks (if any) in their concepts; and to analyze and harmonize different viewpoints on functional literacy. Differing concepts in the field at large were traced…

The study proposed to prepare a statement of the qualitative (assessment) and quantitative (data) nature of vocational education as it is currently practiced in the United States and to prepare descriptions of vocational education from 1955-1975. These descriptions were later to be analyzed in the light of other data to be gathered. Primary…