In this article, the author shares his own reflections on his forty-odd years of teaching history at the college level. He shares one of the most important things he learned during his career as a history teacher: Instructors should make clear to their students at the beginning of any survey course what it is that they expect their students to…

This brochure is intended to serve the following three purposes: (1) To provide Environmental Education Division (EED) managers and staff with a common understanding of EED's mission and goals, the underlying values held as fundamental to EED activities, and specific priorities necessary for making day-to-day operating decisions; (2) To provide a…

In contrast to Freud's later and revised view of the etiology of hysterical, or dissociative, symptoms, it is now known that real, and not fantasized, sexual experiences in childhood are experienced in disociative symptomatology. It is useful to understand that incest involves both traumatic events, that is, incidents of sexual violation per se,…

A description of PPBS, a program for establishing accountability by organizing processes into five categories: 1) establishment of overall objectives; 2) establishment of programs to support these objectives; 3) consideration of future implications; 4) development of alternative means of meeting objectives; and 5) development of criteria for…

Fourteen science educators were asked to list the criteria they believed could be used in differentiating between process- and content-centered objectives, and to classify forty statements as being process-centered, content-centered, both, or not an instructional objective. Results showed a lack of agreement in classification among the…

A critique of the status quo in higher education describes the results of a lack of stated purposes for a liberal education. Some of those purposes should be acquiring information and knowledge, acquiring skills and habits of thought; developing qualities of mind, judgement, and values; and acquiring understanding and competence in the arts. (JH)

Liberal education must be revitalized because it remains the best means yet found by which scholars, artists, and teachers can contribute to the solution of the critical conditions that threaten to engulf the human race. (Author)

RESEARCH FINDINGS ON THE PERCEPTIONS, ASPIRATIONS, AND VALUES OF NEGRO AND WHITE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE REPORTED. DATA ARE BASED ON A QUESTIONNAIRE ADMINISTERED TO FOUR GROUPS, INCLUDING (1) ALL STUDENTS FROM AN URBAN AND A RURAL NEGRO SEGREGATED SOUTHERN HIGH SCHOOL, (2) ALL STUDENTS FROM A WHITE SEGREGATED HIGH SCHOOL IN EACH OF THE SAME TWO…