Discusses the personal experiences of an early childhood education teacher in reconciling behaviorism and humanism. Some specific illustrations of the compatibility of the two approaches are given. (MS)

Ethical instruction should be a distinct component of training programs for educational administrators. Ethical competence should be nurtured by an inductive approach in an educational administration problem-based way, using humanistic literature as supplementary rather than foundational material. (Author/CM)

Study compared teachers' attitudes toward human nature (trustworthiness, altruism, independence, and strength of will) with their interest in using affective methods. "Typical" prospective user of affective methods was female, with strong negative belief in the altruistic characteristics of people. (DS)

An essay critiques the assumptions and philosophy of writers and educators in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) education concerning the role of humanism in ESL instruction, examining what can usefully be adopted from humanism and how it can be reconciled with product-focused, genre-based approaches. A response argues that humanistic language…

The teaching of politics and administration has much to gain from incorporating the experimental outlook of the field of Human Resources Development (HRD). Typically, instructors focus on the five goals in political science education (informational, analytical, synthetic, normative, and applied) separately, hoping that integration will occur…

This issue of "Focus: Teaching English in Southeastern Ohio" contains articles about teaching Shakespeare, student summaries of a Shakespeare conference held at Ohio University-Zanesville in April 1976, and suggested projects for teaching poetry writing. It also contains lists of materials and articles related to the teaching of…

Revealed a positive relationship between the humanistic emphases of beginning teachers and the importance they assigned to such research-based teaching practices as the use of advance organizers, behavioral objectives, and cooperative learning strategies. (Author/ABB)

Study showed that undergraduate psychology students retain a humanistic orientation, but become more abstract in their thinking about psychology as they advance. Students are sensitive to the difference between psychology as a discipline and as a profession. Teaching styles affect student attitudes. Sex differences were found for values and…

Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut argue that "the philosophy of 68" eliminates and leaves no room for a positive rehabilitation of human agency necessary for a workable notion of democracy. In their Preface to the English Translation of "La pensee 68," Ferry and Renaut (1990a, p. xvi), refer to the philosophy of the sixties as a…

Four teaching approaches are discussed. (CH)

Science fiction offers many perspectives on human communication, including (1) a recurring theme about intrapersonal communication, (2) a nontraditional perspective on "family" communication, and (3) a philosophy of communication that can be drawn from some fantasy literature. Although numerous science fiction stories describe alien creatures who…

This paper, part of a research monograph series, focuses on a philosophy of education which is humanistic. The author discusses theories of art education, using as an example of visual art Giorgione's "The Tempest". A synopsis of what needs to be known in order to appreciate the various levels of significance in a great work of visual art precedes…

English teachers are being criticized on many fronts. They should make the public aware that their main responsibility is to teach not utilitarian skills, but the humane basics, to present literature and writing in a way that will make students more compassionate and aware of life. (SJL)

The relationship between a skills and humanistic-custodialistic orientation to instruction and the change in this relationship during a student teaching experience were investigated. Two instruments, one measuring skills orientation and the other measuring humanism-custodialism (Pupil Control Ideology), were given to a group of Social Studies…