Discusses disease and genetic disorders as evolutionary mechanisms. Emphasizes the archeological evidence from past human populations and societies, mentioning albinism, scurvy, sleeping sickness, bone conditions, various host-parasite relationships, rickets, sickle-cell anemia, diabetes, and influenza. (CS)

Outlines and discusses characteristics of an ethological perspective on mental illness, which emphasizes the evolutionary background of humanity, his recent background since the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and the physiological and psychosomatic factors of the human species in dealing with stress. (CS)

As ethical and humanistic concerns are balanced with the effects of science and technology, technological literacy appears to be a primary goal of education. The special role of adult education is to bridge the gap between scientific change and human adaptation. (SK)

Lists the leaders and the organizations that have formed the political coalition that calls itself the "New Right." Summarizes their attacks on "humanism" and recommends that educators clarify terms and inform the public of the purposes of public education in a democracy. (Author/MLF)

Dugald S. Arbuckle, an advocate of human rights in counseling and writer on existential humanistic thought in psychotherapy and education, reflects on the roots of his humanistic thinking. He discusses a wide range of ideas with a former student. (Author)

Conditions of continual change have led to an emergence of the human behavioral sciences and a deeper understanding of the complexity of human behavior; there is an increasing recognition that a more flexible and transcending leisure philosophical perspective is needed. (JD)

Although the content model based on behaviorism and the process model based on humanism can both be used in training, a case study of training rural development workers in Thailand shows advantages of the process model. The model is based on similar principles to rural development and on adult learning principles. (SK)

People for the American Way, a civil liberties organization that monitors censorship, found fundamentalists more active, better organized, more emboldened, and more sophisticated in their censorship attacks. They are increasingly intimidating school boards, and their focused harassment has increasingly frightened publishers into removing…

Problems arise with theories about experience, because subjectivity cannot be the source of meaning in experience. Proposing that experience is made intelligible through language, the author formulates an alternative theory of adult learning: the individual who learns has a language, a culture, and a history; therefore, the learner is situated in…

Feminists now characterize radical feminism as involving sexism, views of the superiority of women over men, and the goal to establish a separate world without men, a gynocracy is discussed. Radical feminism is contrasted with humanism and seen to be antihumanistic. (Author/MLW)

This paper examines how and why individuals with mental retardation were seen as a public menace between 1900 and 1920. Degenerationism is presented as a phenomenon that supports God's creation of humans in a civilized state, that explains human pathology as a medical/psychiatric degeneracy, and that characterizes degenerates as atavistic…

Examines society's orientation toward a dominator model of interaction and discusses it within the context of history. Articulates conscious choices counselors can make to move toward a more equitable and humanistic style of interpersonal interaction. Concludes that vital struggle between dominance and partnership is struggle for both men and…

Examines the postmodern critique of the modern conception of human subjectivity and what it entails for our understanding of education, noting what this implies for educational practice. The paper refers to the work of Michel Foucault, discussing his ideas against the background of a distinction between education as manipulation and education as…

Discusses problems in the creation and implementation of environmental science/studies programs. Suggests that environmental science students must be trained to examine the emerging global environmental predicament in a cultural context. (MM)

This article is a retrospective account of the legacy of Paul Goodman's major educational works: "Growing Up Absurd"; "Compulsory Mis-education, and The Community of Scholars"; and "The New Reformation." It is argued here that what remains of interest in Goodman's work is to be found in the tropes and the anarchic Zeitgeist of his work. The legacy…