Describes the role of the elementary school principal in the area of educational change. (LN)

Discusses four problems of special education: definitional, epistemological, axiological, and metaphysical. Posits that everyone is in principle capable of becoming an autonomous human being and some just need more help than others. This is the purpose of special education programs. (JOW)

Describes the proceedings of the eighth International Humanist and Ethical Union Congress held in Hanover, Germany, 1982. Lectures and discussions deal with issues of anti-humanist trends, disillusioned youth, alienation, and the rise of unreason. (AM)

Discusses how humanists should respond to the peace movement and attacks made on them by fundamentalist religious groups. The author urges humanists to stress the ethical implications of U.S. foreign policy and to work cooperatively with groups supporting the nuclear freeze. (AM)

In an attempt to clarify Maslow's concept of self-actualization as it relates to human motivation, a class of educational psychology students wrote essays describing a self-actualized person and then attempted to decide whether public schools contribute to the production of self-actualized persons. Two-thirds of the students decided that schools…

The author presents a critique of twentieth-century behaviorism and humanism as educational theories. He argues that the techniques of both lead to unwarranted intervention in individual lives and ceaseless human engineering. (SK)

Three key areas of confusion in the English department--composition, curriculum, and humanism--can be resolved by marshaling ideas from social dramatism, games theory, and sociobiology. (DD)

The position that religious thought and spiritual values must be restored to psychology and that clinical-humanistic values are helping to undermine traditional morality is criticized. Commentators argue that human disturbance is largely associated with absolutistic thinking and that psychologists must submit all values to rational scrutiny. (CS)

Briefly outlines some aspects of the discovery of fire control by primitive people, such as the preadaptation for speech, the evolution of the human brain, and natural selection for human nakedness or loss of hair. (CS)

Presents a strategy for the study of Black self-definition. Discusses the use of the constructs "personality" and "culture" by humanistic psychologists. Attends to the utility of humanistic strategies for penetrating Black presentations of self. Explores humanistic developments in anthropology, history, and sociology, as well as in psychology.…

Discusses a transpersonal model which, like a humanistic model, focuses on the human potential for growth, health, and well-being. It goes beyond existing models to include self-transcendence and emphasizes the centrality of consciousness in shaping experience and enhancing well-being. (Author)

The current debate about whether to permit the use of heroin in the management of dying patients is symptomatic of a larger problem: the lack of a humanistic approach to the care of the incurably ill. (Author)

Personal reflections on the life and career of educator Rudy Fobert are presented. (LH)

A literature course is described in which characteristics from programmed instruction are integrated into the lecture-discussion format. The course design requires students to master more material than usual and provides for individual student decision making unavailable in traditional class structures. (Author/BD)

Liberal-humanist conceptions of subjectivity in the moral development of social workers are inadequate and outdated. They rely on a flawed concept of identity and the unity of the self, instead of viewing the self as a social position in a particular historical and cultural concept. (SK)