This article suggests how a teacher might personalize his/her classes so that each student would feel important as an individual. (PB)

Author severely criticized a book on encounter groups by Lieberman, Yalom, and Miles (1973) and stated that it was a methodological morass, theroetically obsolescent, and almost totally unjustified in its conclusions. (Author/RK)

This paper proposes a comprehensive approach to program evaluation and suggests employing a number of methods in evaluating a program. Exclusive allegiance to one school of thought and adoption of one particular technique leads to limited comprehension about programs, and hence their evaluations. If evaluation is viewed as a process by which…

Considered two powerful philosophies vying for the hand of education - behaviorism and humanism - and which had greater relevance for what artists do. Author also suggested ten methods for making a humanistic model operative and meaningful. (Author/RK)

This article makes a realistic appraisal of the future of interdisciplinary humanities courses at the secondary level and discusses what impact it might have on the total school curriculum. The journal is available from the National Association for Humanities Education, P. O. Box 628, Kirksville, Missouri 63501. Articles from this issue are SO 504…

It is the purpose of this paper to reexamine the concept of structure and underscore its relevance to curriculum reform. (Author)

A humanistic approach to debate coaching enhances the ideal of free thought by opposing any censorship of ideas, promoting a wide variety of perspectives on human experience, and encouraging independent, critical thinking and problem solving. This is opposed to traditional authoritarian models in which the teacher is the powerful decision maker…

Intended primarily for the researcher, teacher, or student new to the interdisciplinary study of the impact of technology on man and his habitat, this annotated bibliography is designed to provide a guide to significant statements on technology from humanistic points of view. Works have been chosen which integrate technology with man's social,…

Instructional and resource materials, including films and other audiovisual matter, dealing with human relations and humanistic education are briefly described. Sources for the acquisition of the described material are given, as well as prices for both purchase and rental. (LH)

As humanists, we aim to intensify the powers of thinking and of feeling in those whom we teach; to open to our students every possible avenue to thought, emotion, and expression; and to keep ourselves alive while we are doing these things. Must such humanistic aims be relinquished if the harsh realities in contemporary academe force us to take on…

This is a guide written to detail a humanistic philosophy of education. It is the product of a 12-week training program for experienced K-12 teachers. The training program consisted of a basic movement program, regular lectures and discussions of human relations (relating, loving, learning), and practical workshops with simulated classrooms as an…

This report describes the nature and function of humanistic interviewing in the exchange of information. This interviewing process recognized the human side of the transfer of information involving insight, growth, and further understanding. The report examines the purposes and types of interviews, questionnaire construction, the interviewing…

The initial chapters of this textbook on individualizing instruction address the issues of humanism in education and self-development through personalized approaches to instruction. Following a discussion of how individualized instruction accommodates differences in educational needs and learning styles, later chapters consider in detail: (1)…

These papers grapple with the problems posed by the great advances in technology that have drastically changed the role of art in education. On the one hand, the visual arts welcome technological advances, since they provide opportunities for new kinds of expression. On the other hand, the growth of a technology characterized by impersonality and…