The trend toward the development of the person with emphasis on perceptual awareness, psychological growth, self-actualization, nonverbal learning, and creative behavior is called synaesthetics, or humanistic education. The development of affective objectives should include not only the arts, but also the academic subjects. (JR)

Health educators should be aware of people as growth aspiring, with a basic nature of goodness, and that individuals need to experience those qualities within themselves which produce health and a zest for living. (JD)

Affective education stresses that teachers develop and reinforce student attitudes, values, and feelings. Our formal educational system too often forgets that what is necessary for learning lies within the student, not in the teacher. Schools are among the most powerful settings for growth in affect. (CP)

Interprets a range of affective evaluation practices, with a brief discussion of the strengths and limitations of each. Ideas for some new directions are also explored. (Author/JG)

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

Affective education attempts to educate the emotions. Many available works describing affective techniques offer little guidance to teachers who wish to design their own learning experiences or to administrators and researchers who want to understand and analyze what's going on in affective education. This taxonomy not only describes some…

This document presents a teaching model established at the Rural-Migrant School of Education in California. Students in this school are preparing to teach children of Mexican-American descent and face the necessity of dealing with cultural and language differences that are unique to the area. While instruction is oriented toward the philosophy of…

Project ACABA attempts to provide choices and alternatives for the students. Through its techniques and processes, students are provided instruments to search for their own identities, learn the skills necessary to rebuild damaged self-concepts, and to allow them the freedom to make their own choices, thereby allowing them to experience competence…

Over 250 journal articles, ERIC documents, dissertations, and books dealing with confluent, humanistic, and affective education are listed in this annotated bibliography. Journal articles comprise those published since 1975. Other earlier works listed are considered of major importance in the field. The resources are listed under five categories:…

The affective education movement and applications to foreign language learning are surveyed. Affective, or humanistic, education seeks to include self-knowledge, improved interpersonal communication, and clarification of one's values. Research studies show that thinking and feeling are intertwined. Emotion is present in the classroom and cannot be…

Methods for integrating Christian values into social studies education in Catholic schools are examined. First, the four areas in which learning takes place are discussed: the psychomotor, the cognitive which includes interpretive and analytical skills, the intellectual, and the attitudinal. Next, the author presents four values which should be…

This article describes the evolution of a confluent language program, which provides simultaneous processes for successful language learning, self awareness, self appreciation, and interpersonal communication. The confluent language curriculum design has been successfully implemented in language classes throughout the United States and in some…

Designed as a text for high school students and adults, this illustrated book presents ethical concepts and teachings of Native societies throughout North America concerning the nature and possibilities of human existence. The final component of a course in self-discovery and development, the book begins with the legend of the "Sacred Tree"…