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Peer reviewedDonovan, Richard A. – Educational Leadership, 1972
Describes a workshop at the Center for Humanistic Education which stressed the development of the communication skills needed for interpersonal relationships, and generally sought ways in which classrooms and colleges might be humanized. Author and others are attempting to put these suggestions into practice at Bronx Community College. (Author/DR)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Innovation, Experimental Colleges, Experimental Programs
Peer reviewedBowen, Howard R. – Educational Record, 1973
Assesses the possible effects of lossening up fixed time requirements and rigid patterns of instruction on the economic efficiency and instructional quality of higher education. (Editor/PG)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Educational Philosophy
Download full textAxelrod, Joseph – 1969
In this report of a project on curriculum planning, a new language is developed for analyzing and describing "the curricular-instructional subsystem." Some of the data come from the author's experiences in planning and directing the Experimental Freshman-Year Program (EFP) at San Francisco State College, but most were collected at the…
Descriptors: Activism, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research
Peer reviewedDinkelspiel, John R. – Journal of Higher Education, 1971
Describes courses developed on the reality world" of the student, focusing on student experience instead of the traditional subject matter. (IR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Experimental Programs, Higher Education
Beach, Leslie R. – 1968
In a self-directed student group, learning activities are controlled and directed by the students themselves. This approach to learning was investigated at Hope College to: (1) explore the amount and patterns of interaction observable in small self-directed groups, (2) assess conditions and events in group interaction which enhance or inhibit…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Experimental Programs, Higher Education
Miller, Deborah, Ed. – 1980
A National Council on Social Work Education project to develop, test, and evaluate models for continuing education in five social work education programs is described. Its aim is to demonstrate how the education and practice systems can work together, and to focus on mental health care delivery system issues as a whole. Five pilot projects in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Educational Innovation, Experimental Programs
Baldridge, J. Victor; And Others – 1972
In an effort to put new vigor into the learning situation, an experiential approach to the teaching of social sciences in higher education is offered in this paper. The paper describes how the experiential approach is being used in an academic sociology course at Stanford which is adaptable to a wide variety of social sciences courses. Differing…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Objectives, Discovery Processes
