Angry children need to learn positive expressions of anger, and adults need to accept the angry feelings while teaching children proper ways to express feelings. This guide for classroom use explains that there are good and bad ways to express anger. How students can communicate when angry is explored. It is important to remind students that they…

This research article and literature review is intended to arouse teachers' interest in the possibility of using drama as a supplementary instructional tool for enhancing their teaching as well as their students' learning. It maintains that educational drama can make students more engaged in their learning, render learning more purposeful for…

The authors provide in this study a paradigm for the systematic investigation of autonomy in education by reviewing the thinking and research on autonomy in philosophy, education, and psychology, all of which define, analyze and value autonomy in different ways. Significant issues surrounding autonomy and strategies for dealing with them are…

This paper reports on three studies of the changes in teacher effects on student learning and attitudes as a function of teacher practice. Two studies were performed in a tutorial context, the first with 4 tutors and 16 students, the second with 17 tutors and 68 students. The third study used small group instruction with 12 teachers and 288…

DUSO is an experiential approach to learning which relies on the teacher as the facilitator of human development. The need for such a model becomes apparent when an examination of schools reveals a dichotomy between what we value in education and what children experience. What is necessary then is a program based on an affective, holistic design.…

Classroom techniques and material usage can change student attitudes and the concept that American society, and American schools as a microcosm of that society have become one in which to be real, to extend oneself for others is the exception, not the rule. (JB)

The issues involved in the incorporation of values or value processes into the social studies classroom are abundant and complex. The purpose of this article is to examine issues and alternatives. (Author/JB)

Notes on dealing with hostility, withdrawal, anxiety, and rebellion in the classroom along with discussion of emotions that enhance learning and on developing sensitivity to emotions. (TA)

Several activities that can help deaf children build affective awareness are described. The activities emphasize hands-on, experience-based learning and play, and focus on building self-awareness, learning new ways to interact, recognizing feelings, and having children create books about themselves. (JDD)

Incorporating group socialization procedures into a classroom with young children with developmental difficulties requires identifying target children, implementing the procedures, and evaluating the procedures. Socialization activities may include encouraging children to interact with one another, frequent modeling of prosocial behavior, frequent…

This paper discusses research on affective dimensions of foreign language instruction for gifted students, using Krathwohl's "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Affective Domain" as a framework. The paper suggests behavioral objectives and specific activities to aid foreign language instruction at five levels: receiving, responding,…

Argues that affect has been neglected in education and that this neglect reduces the engagement of both students and teachers in their studies. Proposes increasing the use of stories in teacher education because they can increase interest, add cultural literacy, enhance human relations, and connect studies to great existential questions. (DSK)

National history and collective memory and their impact on adolescents' knowledge and attitudes are the topic of this article. A follow-up study, it examines the long-term impact of a journey to historical monuments. Israeli Jewish high-school students have the option of experiential study, visiting cities and death camps in Poland. The first…