The author defends humanism and humanistic education against the attack leveled against it by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his Harvard address. (IRT)

Secular humanism is not evil, as is charged by the Moral Majority, but is derived from early Christianity, with its concern for learning and human betterment. (Author)

Critical analysis of an article by Doyle Watts that was a criticism of an earlier article by Arthur W. Combs. (MLF)

Faulty interpretations of the concepts of freedom, helping relationships, and purpose account for misunderstandings about humanistic education. (Author/MLF)

An informal assessment of ten years of effort to achieve pluralism and shared values in schools. (Author/MLF)

Criticizes Arthur W. Combs's "Teacher Education: The Person in the Process," published in the April 1978 issue of this journal, and submits that teacher education is a process of developing highly trained and skilled professionals and that the procedure should be well-planned and designed, with specific outcomes produced. (Author/MLF)

Social studies educators in the coming years should concentrate on the humanizing elements of the curriculum to ensure that programs are social and humane. (MM)

Moral education takes thorough preparation. Prepackaged programs are no substitute for well-qualified teachers. (Author)

Educational programs should give priority to experiences on which other experiences depend, to experiences that promote critical thinking, and that enable students to choose experiences worth pursuing and resolve value conflicts. (Author/MLF)

Argues that there is a major need for greatly increased exploration of personal approaches to good teaching and broader application of perceptual-humanistic thinking to all aspects of teacher education. (Author/JG)

Classroom management and discipline are dimensions of teachers' professional competence skills that develop as pedagogical skills first, then control skills, finally humanistic skills. Suggestions from three authors to help teachers reach the level of humanistic discipline are offered. (MLF)

Described is a method of humanizing evaluation procedures by applying both traditional grading procedures and standards of performance based teacher education programs. (GW)

Formerly U.S. Commissioner of Education and Chancellor of State University of New York, Ernest Boyer is a renowned humanist. An avid Civil Rights advocate during the 1970s, Boyer believes knowledge should be channeled toward humane ends. As president of Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching, Boyer broadened the foundation agenda to…

The article states a need for two kins of educational research and evaluation, one which derives from scientific methodology and one which derives from aesthetic and humanistic criticism. (CD)

Presents three short papers. The first defends the humanistic approach to education; the second defends the value of behavioral objectives and evaluation techniques in education; the third argues that humanism and behaviorism are not necessarily contradictory and that both approaches have their place. (JG)