Community change requires a mindshift toward developing personal leadership skills and collaborative holistic organizational design. Examples from Asheville, North Carolina, illustrate that communities are a web of influence and interdependence in which collaboration requires transcending old ways of doing things. (SK)

Effective moral education requires children to engage in ethical inquiry. Ethical inquiry requires students to cultivate all aspects of their thinking, including critical, creative, and caring thinking (which includes active, affective, and valuative thinking). Only the discipline of Philosophy for Children, the narrative-and-discussion-based…

Article proposes concepts that could be the basis for fitness attitudes and practices for all people regardless of skill, age, or expertise. An intrinsic definition of fitness highlights the importance of exercise and relaxation to fitness, integration of the whole self, and acceptance of self based on inherent worth. (SM)

Paul Stevens' model of career development--a holistic approach to work and personal life as the components of a career--was adapted for use at Australian Guarantee Corporation. The strategy included internal promotion, use of focus groups to identify staff issues, pilot workshops, executive support, linkage with other human resource functions, and…

Describes wellness approach to counseling for health and possible recovery from bodily disease, especially cancer. Model described attempts to position body so as to marshal its instinctive health forces and reduce destructive attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, and behaviors. Notes that model is holistic in that it treats body, mind, spirit, and…

Surveys whether journalism and mass communication programs have responded to proposals that the liberal arts component of the accreditation standard be reassessed. Finds that the trend toward a holistic curriculum appears to be gathering momentum. (SR)

Reports on Educative Leadership Project, which brought together theorists and exemplary practitioners within critically collaborative research framework to generate practical theory of educational leadership. Participants appeared to integrate three major perspectives--educative leadership as an activity conducted in a material world, as cultural…

The underlying framework for academic discourse about Native education has been the acculturation model, involving the dialectic of two cultures juxtaposed in an asymmetrical relationship. First Nations discourse seeks to elucidate the unifying context to which those in discourse belong. Together, these discourses provide multidimensional views of…

The Holistic Reading Assessment, a procedure developed and piloted by elementary teachers in the Upper Arlington (Ohio) School District, is conducted in the classroom during a 10-minute individual reading conference. The procedure allows teachers to gather information about students' reading interests, use of strategies, comprehension, and…

Offers a brief history of an attempt to establish predictive test validity with holistic scoring of writing tests. Asserts that holistically scored writing samples may be practical for some local purposes, but they must be used judiciously. Suggests monitoring the validity of local tests with statistical packages and using teacher ratings as…

Outlines the theoretical basis of Maharishi's Integrated System of Rehabilitation, which includes transcendental meditation, offering a uniquely effective approach to correctional rehabilitation. An example from Senegal shows significant decreases in violence, medical needs, and recidivism. (JOW)

A holistic philosophy that learning should be driven by a quest for meaning is manifested in adult basic education by such varied approaches as process writing, whole language, problem posing, alternative assessment, mathematics as problem solving and critical thinking, and family literacy. (SK)

Explores a way for writing teachers to provide feedback, assess growth, and monitor personal story narrative writing from a positive, supportive and holistic perspective. Lists and explains five dimensions of personal story narrative writing, discusses development, and provides examples of student writing. (PRA)

Describes contemporary educational thought as polarized between the reductionist views of utilitarianism and the unifying views of holism. Explains cultural evolution in terms of the Taoist principles of yin and yang. Evaluates current trends in education, and raises epistemological problems. Discusses the potential effect of utilitarian and…

Discusses the advantages of an interdisciplinary curriculum, especially in elementary school. Implementing interdisciplinary curriculum units helps children acquire targeted concepts and skills of various disciplines more effectively. Existing curriculum, current events, and student concerns are the places to find interdisciplinary unit ideas. (SM)