Discusses the concept of copability and the development of a sense of competence in juxtaposition to the depersonalization and anomie resulting from an increasingly industrialized and institutionalized society. Explores this juxtaposition by relating these concepts to experiencing a close family member's death. (Author)

Maintains that the Management By Objectives System, now being employed by many student personnel administrators, minimizes humaneness and maximizes alienation in many cases. Presents an alternative model for meeting demands for a systematic, industrial-business model of accountability. (Author)

Two questions are answered in regard to the Andragogical Management-by-Objectives (AMBO) model in adult education within industry that focuses on the individual and is process-centered. The first question introduces and presents a justification for AMBO. Its philosophical foundations are described, and supporting learning theory arising from the…

The focus of this essay is the Afro American as an actor or agent possessing the capacity to play a part in shaping the contours of his life. The author examines ways in which humanistic and mechanistic psychological perspectives differ on fundamental assumptions about behavior and discusses how the humanistic trend in psychology can be…

The assumption that humanistic scholarship possesses intrinsic value in and of itself as "scholarship" pervades the academic community, though it is largely unspoken. Untenured faculty members rush to publish research, regardless of whether it is read or applied, because they distrust connecting scholarship with action. Academics confuse…

The historical and evolutionary development of the Tazwood Center for Human Services (Illinois) is traced, with a particular emphasis on describing administrative interventions which alleviate excessive stress and strain in the system and provide for growth experiences that prevent stagnation among the staff. The materials presented focus on the…

This paper asserts that public demands for book censorship are but one aspect of a deep public dissatisfaction with the educational establishment, and develops the thesis that the cause of this dissatisfaction is the contrast in world views and religions of those in the educational establishment and the censors. The educational establishment…

The human being is an organism consisting of body-feelings-mind. Any displacement of this integration of self causes a blocking of personality often expressing itself in neurotic behavior. The one obvious factor presenting itself in the counselor's office is neurotic behavior. The therapeutic fields of bioenergetics and gestalt have contributed to…

Humanistic psychologists now embrace many of the same principles which served as the basis for Piaget's theory. These same theories were described earlier by John Locke and Immanuel Kant, and were the basis of the new "Humanism" movement in Germany in the 18th century. If one considers humanistic psychology as a kind of culmination of…

This paper presents the position that concern for others is fundamentally a matter of cognitive definition of one's relationship to and responsibility for other human beings. Altruism changes as a function of an individual's overall level of cognitive-moral development. There are six forms of altruism, corresponding to Kohlberg's six sequential…

This document reports on the efforts of one teacher training program, the Early Childhood Integrated Year Program at Queens College, CUNY, to implement performance-competency-based teacher education (P-CBTE) with specific reference to the use of instructional modules as a strategy for developing competencies. The philosophy underlying the program…

This study sought to probe the contention that curricular specialization in higher education produces a polarization between the scientific and humanistic cultures. Two randomly selected panels of men enrolled at 25 universities were identified from student directories, and followed by mail surveys during three successive summers. Results were…

This curriculum guide to a mini-course in world literature for high school students is restricted to the study of five short novels written in the twentieth century: "Demian" and "Siddhartha" by Hesse, "Platero and I" by Jimenez, "We Never Make Mistakes" by Solzhenitsyn, and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by Joyce. The objectives of the…

This is the second in a two volume set (see also SE 013 455) which displays what the people at the Earth Science Teacher Preparation Project (ESTPP) value about learning, learners, themselves, and their role in helping learners. It records, mainly in their own words, how some people in colleges and secondary schools feel about education and how…

A monograph exploring issues in behavior and behavioral objectives is presented. Following the introduction, there are six sections in this book. In the opening section, George Henry uses a philosophical point of view to look for goals underlying the behaviorist's approach to English teaching. Section two is a sympathetic examination of the ends…