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People-Oriented Education Transformation. The Great Transformation of China
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Chu, Zhaohui – Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
This book explores the reforms sweeping China's educational sector. Traditionally dominated by rote learning, China's educational system has increasingly been criticized by the rising middle class for failing to foster creativity, for arbitrary placement of students, and for fostering regional inequities. Reforms to make Chinese education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Psychological Patterns, Social Change
Value Clarification: Putting Life and Work in Perspective
Thal, Helen M.; Holcombe, Melinda – American Vocational Journal, 1973
The authors discuss the role of vocational educators in helping students identify the student's own values. (AG)
Descriptors: Student Development, Student Needs, Student Problems, Values
Developing Resilient Children: After 100 Years of Montessori Education
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Drake, Meg – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2008
In this millennium, educators are faced with a number of issues that Dr. Maria Montessori could not have predicted. Today, students are different from the children Dr. Montessori observed in her "Casa dei Bambini." They are influenced by technology in all its forms. Some suffer from medical problems such as complex food allergies, which wreak…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Personality Traits, Student Development, Student Needs
The Student Point of View. Residence Hall Living: Four Notions About Community
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Beamer, Marvin – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 1974
Presents four notions about community: values, developmental socialization, identity, and group living; and discusses why each must receive the attention of professionals if residence halls are to achieve a sense of community. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: College Housing, Dormitories, Group Experience, Higher Education
PROGRESSIVE CHANGES IN EDUCATIONAL VALUES OVER FOUR YEARS OF COLLEGE. THE PLATTSBURGH STUDY, PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS' VALUES, NEEDS AND EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES, REPORT 4.
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JOHNSON, S.W. – 1966
AS PART OF A LONGITUDINAL STUDY TO DETERMINE IF CHANGES IN A STUDENT'S VALUES, NEEDS, AND EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES ARE MORE ORDERLY AND PREDICTABLE THAN PRIOR RESEARCH HAS INDICATED, THE POE INVENTORY OF VALUES WAS ADMINISTERED TO 225 STUDENTS DURING EACH OF THEIR COLLEGE YEARS. THIS INSTRUMENT YIELDS EIGHT SCORES -- (1) AESTHETIC, (2) INTELLECTUAL,…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Moral Values, Social Values, Student Attitudes
Changes in Dental Students' Personal Needs and Values.
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Cain, M. J.; And Others – Journal of Dental Education, 1983
Personality characteristics of dental students as freshmen and seniors were studied, and no significant change was found. The results imply that dental school had minimal effect on students' personal needs, values, and attitudes, making faculty knowledge of these traits essential before admission. (MSE)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Dental Students, Higher Education, Individual Development
Premises and Prerequisites of Student Professional Training.
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Schifirnet, Constantin – Higher Education in Europe, 1985
Research on the professional preparation of Romanian university students is discussed, including what constitutes specialist training and qualifications, student motivations in choice of field, values within the chosen profession as a factor in student attitudes, and the roles of knowledge acquisition, communication, work, and politics and…
Descriptors: College Students, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Humanistic Education: Objectives and Assessment. A Report of the ASCD Working Group on Humanistic Education.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Washington, DC. – 1978
The guidebook is designed to help school districts plan humanistic education programs. Humanistic education is defined as a commitment to education and practice in which the teaching/learning process emphasizes the individual's freedom, value, dignity, and integrity. Humanistic education aims to develop the learner's potentials, help students to…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education