Describes the differentiated staffing program at Mary Harmon Weeks Elementary School in Kansas City, Missouri. (Author)

A historical account of university attendance by English aristocracy during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as a potential avenue for training, advancement, service, and self-fulfillment. (MF)

An analysis of the philosophy, administrative procedures, and personal style of new administrators as an example of what may become a general trend in schools. (JF)

Eleven specific innovations are listed that should be considered by educators committed to the ideal of a humane and open society. (JH)

Describes a program for helping people, based on a philosophy stressing the strengths and value of man. (Author/EK)

Paper will appear in "Clinical Psychology and Personality: The Selected Papers of George A. Kelly , edited by Brendan A. Maher and published by John Wiley and Sons.

The results of attempts to write educational fiction and to do educational research as a form of storytelling are not convincing either as research or as fiction. Recent developments in the Centre for Applied Research in Education represent the most marked departure yet from conventional education research. (JN)

Reviews current views and alternatives of future society. Divides contemporary predictions of both desirable and undesirable societies into two opposing camps of technophobes and technophiles. Offers debates between both proponents on positions and differences in their utopian thoughts, interpretations, and attempts at putting their beliefs into…

Focusing on the views of the New Right spokesperson Alice Moore, presents the philosophy of the New Right as it relates to teaching. Expresses fear that balanced curricula, innovative teaching methods, and cultural diversity will disappear from the public schools. (Author/JM)

Technological education and humanistic approaches are not essentially disparate. A correctional institution has joined both educational processes in a successful application, improving both the immates' self-concepts and their employable skills. (Author/BB)

Describes a one-semester course in educational psychology for preservice teachers designed to give students the experience of participating in group-centered teaching and classroom meetings. A questionnaire was used to assess one aspect of the experiential approach An attempt was made to demonstrate that humanistic methods are viable in…

Demonstrates that family impact analysis has the same basic goals as humanistic social science in terms of assessing the consequences of social policy with regard to family well-being and the quality of family life. Family impact analysts explicate policy consequences for families. Family policy advocates suggest policy creation. (Author)

Discusses the controversy over teaching what religious fundamentalists and social conservatives consider secular humanism. Suggests that modern social studies does not support secular humanism even though they share epistemological and ethical assumptions (the use of the scientific method, intelligent reasoning). Provides suggestions for teachers…