Guide to the Howard Kirschenbaum papers HPA Mss 58
Finding aid prepared by Rebecca Vasquez, March 2024.
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
2024 March
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Title: Howard Kirschenbaum papers
Creator:
Kirschenbaum, Howard (1944-)
Identifier/Call Number: HPA Mss 58
Physical Description:
12 Linear Feet;
(12 cartons)
Date (inclusive): 1960-2009
Abstract: Papers of Howard Kirschenbaum, an American researcher, educator, author, and historian in the field of humanistic psychology.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Language of Material:
English.
The collection is arranged by topic into 3 series:
- Series 1: Professional papers
- Series 2: Humanistic Education materials
- Series 3: Writing materials
Howard Kirschenbaum is an American educator, author, researcher, and historian in the field of humanistic psychology. He is
currently a Professor Emeritus of University of Rochester's Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development's
Counseling and Human Development Department.
He received his B.A. degree in literature from The New School for Social Research in 1966, going on to earn his M.A. degree
in Teaching and PhD in Educational Psychology at Temple University in 1968 and 1975, respectively. After graduating, Kirschenbaum
taught as a Guest and Adjunct Faculty at several universities and institutions until 1997, when he joined the Margaret Warner
Graduate School of Education and Human Development at University of Rochester as Frontier Professor of School, Family and
Community Relations. From 2000 to 2006, in addition to teaching, he was the Warner School's Chair of the Department of Counseling
and Human Development and Chair and Member of the Human Subjects Committee. His curriculum often focused on courses in values
and character education.
Kirschenbaum has also held several administrative positions throughout his career. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, he served
as the Executive Director of the Sagamore Institute, formerly the Adirondack Mountain Humanistic Education Center and the
National Humanistic Education Center. In the early 1980s, he served as the Executive Director of the National Coalition for
Democracy in Education.
His research specializations include values clarification, values and character education, humanistic education, and Carl
Rogers and the person-centered approach to counseling and psychotherapy. He has helped develop models and methods that promote
progressive, constructivist approaches to counseling, education and the helping professions. Kirschenbaum's books include
The Life and Work of Carl Rogers, One Hundred Ways to Enhance Values and Morality in Schools and Youth Settings, Wad-Ja-Get?
The Grading Game in American Education, and Coming of Age in the Baby Boom: A Memoir of Personal Development, Social Action,
Education Reform and Adirondack Preservation.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Howard Kirschenbaum, May 2009.
[Identification of Item], Howard Kirschenbaum papers, HPA Mss 58. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
The collection contains materials produced and compiled by Howard Kirschenbaum throughout his work in the field of humanistic
psychology, particularly related to his work in humanistic education, values clarification, values and character education,
grading and evaluation reform, and related areas.
Materials may include program and teaching materials, correspondence, drafts and manuscripts, audio visual materials, and
other reference materials.
In box descriptions, "F" indicates an individual file folder, and additional descriptive notes were prepared by Howard Kirschenbaum
to provide further context.
box 1
Academic materials 1962-1969
F: Guide to Howard Kirschenbaum's Papers
F: Overview of HK's Career – containing the case statement submitted for promotion to full professor at University of Rochester.
Section 2 on "Scholarship and Practice" gives a good narrative overview of much of HK's career.
F: Curriculum Vitae – several vitae, past through more recent
High School
Graduated from Long Beach High School in 1962.
F: High School Papers – containing 3 papers
Johns Hopkins University 1962-64 (4 inches)
Course papers and course notebooks and notes
New School for Social Research 1964-66 (4 inches)
Received my B.A. degree from The New School.
F: The New School – background
Course papers and course notebooks and notes
Master's Program, Temple University 1966-68 (1.5 inches)
F: Temple University – Master's Degree – containing GRE scores, transcript, Pennsylvania teaching certificate, instructor's
notes on supervising my student teaching, symposium on "American Education and the War in Vietnam" co-organized for the program.
F. Papers
F: Miscellaneous Materials from Program
Three course notebooks
High School Teaching 1966-1969 (4.5 inches including 2 files in Box 2)
These papers show integration of values clarification and humanistic education into teaching high school English and history.
F: Abington High School English Teacher 1966-68 - containing papers related to employment, e.g., evaluations; "independent
study courses I taught"; letter to school newspaper; songs from two folk concerts HK was student advisor for; a play students
wrote which was published; three letters from former students
F: Portfolio 1966-67 – containing all (or most) handouts, assignments, etc. for courses, including books of stories and poems
students produced on race relations
F: Portfolio 1967-68 – same kind of materials as above
F. Poetry Portfolio 1966-67 – containing poetry copied and given to students, rather than use an anthology. This was unorthodox
for the time.
F: Poetry Portfolio – 1967-68 – same as above.
The following folders contain materials on particular units or lessons taught:
F: Man and God Unit
F: Race Relations Unit
F: Ballad Large Group - this was a presentation given to several classes, when gathered once a week in a large group classroom
F: Reaction Sheets
box 2
Academic and early career materials 1966-1993
High School Teaching - continued
F: New Lincoln School – employment information
F: American Studies Core – curricular materials for teaching 11th grade CORE (history and English)
F: Political and Social Thought – curricular materials for teaching this 11th/12th grade elective on the theme of "Utopian
Thought"; controversial proposal the class came up with for improving the school.
Temple University Doctoral Program 1969-1975 (2 inches)
F: Doctoral Program – Miscellaneous – containing Allan Glatthorn, Sidney Simon, Ed Hecht letters of recommendation to program;
admissions materials; acceptance and appointment letters; transcript of courses taken; proposal submitted to department; students
tutored in city schools; memo to VIPS collaborated with; letter to editor of Temple U. newspaper re Nixon's hypocrisy; invitation
to join Phi Delta Kappa.
F: Undergraduate and Graduate Classes I Taught – a few handouts from three classes: Educational Psychology (101), Learning
(102), and Group Dynamics (312).
F: Comprehensive Exam and Dissertation Proposal – answers to the take-home part of the comprehensive exam; notice of "Passed
with Distinction"; dissertation proposal; controversy surrounding non-traditional dissertation proposal; application to graduate.
F: Papers – containing a few papers from doctoral courses. (A couple are in retained files on Carl Rogers writings.)
F: Group Dynamics Course at Temple – more complete file
Values Associates (c. 1968-1974) (2 inches)
Values Associates was the partnership of Sidney Simon, Merrill Harmin, Marianne Simon and Howie Kirschenbaum that was instrumental
in spreading the values clarification movement as well as workshops on humanistic education, human relations training, and
humanizing grading and evaluation. One or more of us continued to use the name Values Associates well into the next century.
These files focus on the early years when we were most active.
Values Associates
Contains folders related to the consulting group Values Associates and its many workshops and activities. While this was
the key group promulgating values clarification around the country and world, as the brochures and other documents show, Values
Associates also sponsored many workshops and activities within the wider humanistic education movement.
F: V.C. Workshops – Before Values Associates
F: Values Associates – Brochures, Publicity, Etc. (1969-1974)
F: Values Associates – Future Plans, Ideas, Etc.
The National Conferences on Grading Alternatives was one area where Values Associates took the lead in organizing five national
conferences on alternatives to traditional grading and evaluation in schools. These well-attended conferences led to the
National Center for Grading and Learning Alternatives, which James Bellanca coordinated. Few materials from this period survive.
F: National Conferences on Grading Alternatives – 1972 and 1973 – brochures, program book, etc. on the 5 conferences attended
by about 2000 educators
National Humanistic Education Center 1971-78 (7.5 inches)
F: The Idea of a Conference Center – early concepts and possible sites
HK began the Adirondack Mountain Humanistic Education Center ("AMHEC") with Sid and Marianne Simon in 1971. HK was executive
director. When Barbara Glaser and HK married in 1972, they became co-directors. In 1973 summer season, AMHEC became a non-profit,
tax-exempt educational organization
F: Adirondack Mt. Humanistic Education Center – workshops, brochures, etc. – 1971-74
In 1974 (probably in the fall), AMHEC changed its name to the National Humanistic Education Center ("NHEC"). The next files
are year-by-year, chronological files, containing brochures, materials lists and other materials on the activities of NHEC.
Other files containing information on particular NHEC activities are placed at the end of the section.
F: 1975
F: 1976 – also describes how NHEC acquired the historic Sagamore Lodge and Conference Center
F: 1977
F: 1978
F: 1979
In 1980, NHEC changed its name to Sagamore Institute, while maintaining the National Humanistic Education Center as one of
its major programs.
F: 1980
F: 1981
In 1982, Sagamore Institute dropped the name National Humanistic Education Center entirely but continued its many humanistic
education programs.
F: 1982
F: 1983
F: 1984
F: 1985
F: 1986
F: 1987
F: 1988
The Humanistic Educators Network was a major project that HK initiated and coordinated at NHEC, which helped spread and support
humanistic education around the country. It eventually grew to about 1000 members.
F: Humanistic Education Quarterly and Humanistic Educators Network 1972-1977 – containing all issues of both publications
that were sent to the network.
The Human Relations Youth Adventure Camp ("HRYAC") was a summer program for 11-14 year olds that AMHEC, NHEC and Sagamore
Institute ran for 13 years, coordinated by Clifford Knapp and Vera Knapp. It was an outstanding example of using humanistic
education principles and methods in a summer youth camp setting.
F: Human Relations Youth Adventure Camp – 1974-1986 – containing misc. items on HRYAC. Descriptions of each year's camp programs
can be found in the brochures in the previous chronological files
F: Humanistic Education Learning Community – 1987-88 – an interesting one-year experiment of NHEC in Saratoga Springs.
F: National Conference on the Future of Humanistic Education – an invitational conference attended by many or most of the
national leaders in the field, which among other things, launched the National Coalition for Democracy in Education (which
has its own section in Box 3).
Workshops, Presentations, Consulting (4 inches in this box; 4 inches in Box 3)
Most of this section contains folders with programs, notes, announcements, news reports, etc. on presentations, workshops
or consulting completed on values clarification, humanistic education, grading and evaluation alternatives, values and character
education, Carl Rogers and the person-centered approach, and school-family-community relations. The first folders span a number
of years:
F: 1968-69
F: 1970-74
F: 1975-79
F: 1980-84
F: 1985-89
F: 1990-93
Following are folders on individual presentations, workshops and consulting projects from 1994-2004. The previous and the
following folders by no means represent all the presentations and workshops completed over the past 40 years, but only those
in which documentation still survives.
box 3
Program materials 1980-1984
Workshops, Presentations, Consulting (4 inches in Box 2; 4 inches in this box)
Continuation of folders on individual presentations, workshop, consulting.
F: Articles Featuring HK – some magazine or newspaper articles describing HK and his work. Practices of Teacher Educators
Committed to Character includes a description of four model programs, including values education course at the University
of Rochester. (Other articles on included in the Values Clarification and Values/Character Education sections.)
F: Awards, Honors – miscellaneous items on particular awards; other examples where HK was honored to be included on advisory
boards or meetings with leaders in the field.
F: Letters of Appreciation, Kudos – Miscellaneous.
F: Professional Contacts – various mailing lists and other contacts. This folder was probably from around 1980.
National Coalition for Democracy in Education – 1980-84 (6.5 inches)
This was a major, national project HK directed in support of humanistic education and other democratic values. An outgrowth
of NHEC/Sagamore's Invitational Conference on the Future of Humanistic Education, it was a coalition of many organizations
and about a thousand individual members. It was housed at Sagamore Institute, and while legally a project of Sagamore Institute,
it had its own national coordinating committee and identity independent of Sagamore Institute.
F: History of Coalition – many letters, documents and reports from Coalition's beginning to end.
F: Coordinating Committee – Background, History, Correspondence.
F: Recruitment, Announcements, Etc.
F: Affiliates – communications with and correspondence of affiliated organizations
F: Correspondence with Other Organizations and Individuals
F: Procedures for School-Community Relations in a Democratic Society – materials on a publication written for the Coalition
that was published in a number of versions and places.
F: HK Activities, Writings Resulting from Coalition
F: Falwell Debate with HK – 1982 – some items related to that debate before 2000 members of the Amer. Personnel and Guidance
Assn. (now Amer. Counseling Assn.)
Brown loose-leaf notebook –contain my notes from the debate with Rev. Jerry Falwell
F: Moral Majority / Jerry Falwell – materials on this particular leader of the Religious Right and opponent of humanistic
education
F: Articles About the Situation in the Early 80s – articles on censorship and about the attacks on humanistic education, public
education, sex education, values clarification, etc.
F: American Library Association – their involvement with these controversies, particularly around censorship
F: Right Wing Info – filled with articles, pamphlets, letters to the editor and other materials attacking humanistic education,
values clarification, sex education, etc.
F: Right Wing Literature – same as above
Quest (3 inches in this box, 2 inches in Box 4)
These folders relate to the Quest International program, which became one of the most popular and widespread humanistic education/character
education programs throughout the world. Founder Rick Little would never call it that, because it appealed to a real cross
section of religious, mainstream, and liberal educators; yet it used many principles and techniques of character education,
humanistic education and values clarification to create a very effective program. Barbara Glaser and HK wrote their first
curriculum, Skills for Living (in Box 11), which was used in thousands of schools and over one million high school students
in the U.S. and abroad. They collaborated with others on their middle-school curriculum, Skills for Adolescents. They also
did an elementary curriculum, Skills for Growing.
Because of the humanistic education/values clarification components in the program and ambiguous research findings, it came
under attack. William Coulson, who also misrepresented the work of his former colleague Carl Rogers, was a leader in that
attack. HK did a little consulting with them during this period. These files are all related to the program, its spread, and
the controversy.
F: Quest – My Relationship With
F: Quest – Information About
F: Controversy Around Quest
F: Quest – Attacks Other than Coulson
F: Coulson and Quest
box 4
Program and teaching materials 1990-2005
Quest – continued
F: Coulson – includes audio tapes (Values Free Education - William Coulson 6/5/90; Humanism in Education - W. R. Coulson
8/7/90)
F: Quest and Research
Values Education Courses 1991-97 (2 inches)
F: Brockport – Appointment and Salary Info. As an adjunct faculty member, HK taught a course on values and character education
for State University of New York at Brockport six or seven times from 1991-97.
F: Values Course 1991-1997 Brockport – containing syllabi plus a few other items
F: "American Values – Course – 1992" -- contains syllabi and papers associated with the semester-long, elective history course
HK taught at School Without Walls – an alternative high school in the Rochester City School District. It illustrates inclusion
of values education, values clarification and humanistic education within an academic history course.
University of Rochester (4 inches)
Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development Information Guide 2004-05 – gives an overview of the school,
programs, courses, and faculty, including description of HK.
F: My Course on School, Family and Community Relations 1998-2004 – at the Univ. of Rochester.
F: Values Course – 2004 UR – syllabus, lesson plans, and various student materials from one offering of "Developing Values
and Character in the School, Home and Community" course, which HK taught at the U of R most years from 1998 to 2005.
F: Values Course Class Lists to 2004
F: Values Course – Masters - master copies of handouts from these courses over the years
F: Correspondence from Students, Faculty or People Writing to Me as Dept. Chair – some miscellaneous, mostly more recent
items, including many notes received upon the announcement of retirement.
F: Student Evaluations – Misc – from several courses over several years
Frontier Professor of School-Family and Community Relations – 1997-2002
(3 inches)
This role constituted a portion of work at the University of Rochester, from 1997 to 2001 or 2002. When HK became department
chair in 2001, his focus turned almost exclusively to counseling and human development, and his role as Frontier Professor
came to an end.
These files document work with the Rochester City School District, in which HK played an active role in helping them develop
and implement a comprehensive program for parent and community involvement.
F: History of Project with City School District – documenting major "Partnership 2000" initiative. Among other items, includes
five issues of a newsletter HK edited for the district about the project.
F: Colloquium on My Work – given to faculty and students at the U of R
F: Parent Liaison Interviews and Summary Report – 1999. (The district successfully worked to get full-time parent liaisons
in all the city's schools.)
F: Principal Interviews and Summary Report – 1999
F: RCSD Strategic Plan for Parent Involvement – which Dr. Frederick Jefferson, Jr. and HK co-facilitated and which was later
adopted by the Board of Education.
The next three folders are about the evaluation and research study undertaken, but not completed, to document the project
and study parent involvement.
F: Evaluation of Project/Research Study
F: Some Data from Research
F: Date Entry
F: Overheads for Workshop(s) on Parent Involvement – from various presentations and workshops conducted
F: Parent University – RCSD – the last project HK worked with the district on
HK also worked with a group in the community, led by Jim Coffey of Monroe Community College, to plan and implement a local
television station devoted to parent education throughout the community. He helped organize and was Vice-President of the
Rochester Parent Network, which later did launch "The Parent Channel." He resigned from the group when I became department
chair and his role as Frontier Professor of School, Family and Community Relations ended.
F: Rochester Parent Network – 1998-2000
Research on Humanistic Education (3.5 inches in this box) fall under Series 2: Humanistic Education materials
Series 2: Humanistic Education materials 1967-1996
This series includes materials related to the three themes of Humanistic Education: humanistic education research, values
clarification, and values/character education.
All student records are subject to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) restrictions up to 75 years from
the date of creation of the record. Some files in this series may contain restricted materials.
box 5
Humanistic Education Research and Values Clarification materials 1967-1984
Research on Humanistic Education (3.5 inches Box 4; 3.5 inches in this)
A number of us in the humanistic education field were concerned that the educational community was not aware of the considerable
amount of research evidence that supported humanistic education. Hence under John Swisher's leadership, five individuals developed
a "Bibliography of Outcome Studies in Humanistic Education".
Following the Bibliography itself, most of the papers in this section are the summaries of the research studies that comprised
that bibliography.
V.C. Articles (4 inches)
This box mostly contains further documents about values clarification ("V.C."), a popular branch of humanistic psychology,
particularly in the 1970s and early 80s. HK was a leader in this movement, and some of the papers document his own career
as well as the movement itself.
This section contains probably the largest collection of articles on values clarification in any one place, although it is
not a complete collection. It is organized as follows:
F: VC Articles – 1967 and Earlier
Individual folders for the years 1968 to 1980
F: VC Articles after 1980
F: VC Articles - Undated
V.C. Topics (4.5 inches)
Various topics related to values clarification, some about values clarification itself, some about my own activities.
F: V.C. – History of
F: V.C. – Influence of
The following four folders contain various newspaper articles, flyers, and other publications attacking values clarification,
typically from a right wing or religious conservative perspective. There is much repetition here. But they demonstrate how
much values clarification was at the center of the attacks on humanistic psychology and humanistic education and the enormous
threat that values clarification was (is) to some groups in the society. Also some attacks from an academic viewpoint. (There
are additional folders in the section on National Coalition for Democracy in Education that contain further attacks on and
controversy around values clarification in the context of attacks on humanistic education.)
F: V.C. — Controversy-1
F: V.C. — Controversy-2
F: V.C. — Controversy-3
F: "Values Clarification Under Attack"
F: V.C. – Critiques – contains more well reasoned criticisms.
F: Values Books – New – correspondence between HK, Sidney Simon, Merrill Harmin and others about possibly new books on values
clarification
F: V.C. – Correspondence, Miscellaneous
F: My Own Life Planning V.C. Process – notes from a "workshop" HK did with himself, probably in late 70s or early 80s, seeking
to clarify my future directions
F: V.C. in Organizations
F: Research Instrument for V.C. – ideas HK considered for a couple of research instruments
F: Values Cards – some cards students wrotethat HK did not have returned to them (possibly submitted at the last class of
the semester)
F: Values Strategies – New Ones – miscellaneous activity ideas for a new book that was never written
V.C. Workshops (2 inches)
These folders contain workshop designs, notes, handouts, etc. for some workshops HK conducted or co-led applying values clarification
to particular topics. They do not represent all workshops led.
F: Male-Female Roles – Workshop on V.C. for Women and Men – 1976
F: Advanced V.C. Workshops
F: Exploring Alternative Lifestyles
F: Red Cross – May 1984
box 6
Values Clarification Research materials 1973-1978
This box contains a collection of early research studies on values clarification — the original reports or articles. These
studies formed the substance of HK's articles "Current Research on Values Clarification" and "Recent Research on Values Clarification",
which were published in various versions. See, for example, the chapter in his book
Advanced Value Clarification. Many of these studies are probably no longer available anywhere else.
box 7
Values Clarification and Values/Character Education materials 1977-1996
V.C. Projects and Applications (8.5 inches)
Assorted materials—projects, curricula, games, papers, etc. illustrating different ways and settings in which values clarification
was used. HK was a principal participant in all these, i.e., led or co-led the workshops, wrote or co-wrote the curriculum,
etc. There were many other such projects or curricula that were not save.
F: Humboldt, Iowa Schools Project 1977-79
F: American Lung Association Project 1977-78
F: U.S. Army project in Germany – 1979
F: Family Money Game – for Aid Association for Lutherans – 1980
F: Ethical Choices in Health Care – for Church Women United – 1992
Packet: Learning for Life – Boy Scouts of America – c. 1995
Booklet: Values Matter at School 46 – 1995-96
F: Other Miscellaneous Projects – ones I wasn't directly involved in
Values/Character Education - Miscellaneous Files (5 inches)
HK gradually developed a more comprehensive view, seeing values clarification as necessary but not sufficient for moral and
character development. He expanded his approach to a more comprehensive values education, which included values clarification
but was broader than simply values clarification. His more comprehensive approach was consistent with, although on the liberal
wing of, the character education movement that became popular in the 1990s.
Arguably, the character education movement can be considered an outgrowth or branch of humanistic education and humanistic
psychology in the sense of its exploring and demonstrating how humans can realize their potential in terms of character and
moral development. There may be controversy about what the goals of moral and character development may be for humans in different
societies, but it is nevertheless an important aspect of human development and human potential.
Because the fields overlap, there is some overlap between the values clarification and values/character education files.
F: Articles on Values Education, Etc. Misc.
F: Bibliographies on Values Education
F: Cartoons on Values
F: Comprehensive Values Education – a one-page overview HK wrote and disseminated, staking out a new position on values education.
F: Correspondence – Miscellaneous
F: Definition of "Values"
F: Religion, Values and Moral Education
F: RBS Project – documents from a major, early project on moral education that HK was involved in, initiated, sponsored and
coordinated by Research for Better Schools, Philadelphia
F: State Values Projects and Policies
F: Theories of Values Development
Values/Character Education Presentations, Designs and Handouts (2.5 inches)
Folders containing outlines, overheads, handouts and notes from various presentations on values education and character education.
American Values – (3 inches)
This section contains a few folders with articles and materials on "American values". This materials played a part HK and
others' thinking, particularly in the 1970s, as a culture was seeking to clarify its values related to materialism, community,
sexuality, and other issues.
box 8
Books
This box contains files on nine of HK's books:
Wad-Ja-Get? The Grading Game in American Education;
Values Clarification: A Handbook of Practical Strategies for Teachers and Students;
Clarifying Values Through Subject Matter;
Readings in Values Clarification;
The Wedding Book: Alternative Ways to Celebrate Marriage;
Advanced Value Clarification;
Developing Support Groups;
100 Ways to Enhance Values and Morality in Schools and Youth Settings;
Values Clarification: An Action-Directed Workbook.
These files contain correspondence with publishers, contracts, financial records, published reviews, reactions from readers,
notes, and other related materials. Also included are the books themselves.
box 9
Articles, book chapters, monographs, and other published materials 1967-1985
This box, and half of Box 10, contain chronologically arranged folders for each of HK's 90 or so professional journal and
magazine articles, book chapters, monographs, and other published writings. A copy of the article is included in each folder,
sometimes within the journal or magazine itself. Also included are usually one or more of: correspondence with publisher,
reviewers comments, different drafts, notes and back-up materials, letters and responses from readers, or other related documents.
Not included are his articles and chapters on Adirondack history and historic preservation, which are beyond the scope of
this collection.
box 10
Published materials and recorded presentations 1972-1998
The second half of Box 10 contains videotapes and cassette tapes of various presentations HK gave on humanistic education,
values clarification, etc. Presentations on Carl Rogers are not included. Included are:
Videotapes
Videotapes (Beta and VHS) of debate on humanistic education with Rev. Jerry Falwell of the Moral Majority before 2000 members
of the American Personnel and Guidance Assn. (now the Amer. Counseling Assn.).
Videotape (Beta) of segment on "Utilizing Values Education" along with three other segments of the Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development's production on "Implementing Humanistic Education in the Schools". With accompanying Discussion
Guide, 1977.
Videotape (VHS) of appearance/debate on the Phil Donahue portion of the Today Show (NBC? Television) – 1980s.
Videotape of presentations on a panel on "Family Values" for University of Rochester Alumni Association, February 1998.
Videotape of what appears to be a presentation on values, superimposed on a Stawicki Counseling Program tape.
Reel-to-reel tape of a debate with a conservative rabbi on a New York City radio station, on the topic of grading/evaluation
reform in the schools. About 1972.
Cassette Tapes
Debate on proposition: "Values Clarification Destroys Home-Taught Values" with Rev. Murray Norris at Public Schools and The
First Amendment Conference, Indianapolis, 1982.
"Alternative Approaches to Grading and Evaluation". Presentation at one of our National Conferences on Grading Alternatives,
1974
"100 Ways to Enhance Values and Morality in the Schools", Assoc. for Supervision and Curriculum Development Conference, 1994
"Involving Parents and Community in a Comprehensive Model for Values and Moral Education", Assoc. for Supervision and Curriculum
Development Conference, 1995
HK Interview with Kurt Smith on 1370 Connection, WXXI public radio, Rochester, NY, April 1998. The subject was possibly President
Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, and character education.
Merrill Harmin and Howie Kirschenbaum discussing their views of the values clarification process at the Adirondack Mt. Humanistic
Education Center, 1972.
HK presenting on "Beyond Values Clarification". Date and location unknown.
Other Items
F: Letters to the Editor – Professional – containing a few letters I wrote, including ones published in the NY Times and
Wall Street Journal. There were others I don't seem to still have.
F: Videotapes and DVDs. Containing information on two other videotapes I was featured in.
F: Dave Bell Associates Film Series – in which HK was on two films, one featuring him for 30 minutes demonstrating values
clarification in career education activities with a class of 5th graders and discussing what he was doing.
box 11
Books and unpublished materials
Books that did not have files and/or that did not fit in Box 8. These are:
College Guide for Experimenting High Schools – a major project James Bellanca and HK completed in 1973 as part of the national grading reform movement we were spearheading.
The Catalogue for Humanizing Education – NHEC had arguably the biggest store of materials available on humanistic education in the country. Supported with a grant
from the Needmor Fund, this catalogue was a vehicle for both spreading humanistic education and selling the materials.
Skills for Living – this was the Quest curriculum that Barbara Glaser and HK wrote that was one of the most popular humanistic education curricula
in the U.S., used with over a million students in thousands of high schools.
Conferencing 2000: 130 Ideas for Using Sound Learning Principles, Theatrics, and Technology for Creative and Effective Conferences
in the New Millennium
– A book Elliott Masie and HK wrote, stemming from his influential and popular Computer Training and Support Conferences.
Elliott sold/gave it to Ziff-Davis company for internal use for the many conferences they ran around the world. This is a
reasonably complete copy, but not final draft of the manuscript.
Unpublished Manuscripts
This section contains manuscripts of articles and a book HK wrote or co-authored but were never published. Some were submitted
and rejected (some correspondence is included); others were never submitted. They are:
"The Ultimate Grading Game". With Sidney Simon, early 1970s. A satire. May have been an earlier or different version of a
chapter in
Wad-Ja-Get? or our article "The Day the Consultant Came to Talk About Our Grading System."
"A Tribute to Louis Raths: An Interview with Sidney Simon," 1978. Actually was published in the in-house publication for
the Values Clarification Trainers Network (see Box 2), so received very limited distribution.
"Male and Female Roles in Our Society". A commencement address HK gave for North Country Community College, Saranac Lake,
NY, 1981.
"Clinton and Lewinsky: Lessons for Character Education". Most likely presented at the Character Education Partnership, 1999.
Some small portions of this were published, but never in its entirety.
"The Year the School Eliminated Self-Esteem". With Sid Simon. A satire.
Parent Involvement Handbook. Around 1999. This was to be a book. After writing a number of sections, HK became department
chair and left the project behind.
"A Study of the Effectiveness of Parent Liaison Intervention in Reducing Absenteeism Among Low-Attending Students in an Urban
School District". With Mary Baker and Guillermo Montes. This is a reasonably finished draft, but it needed a little more
work when Mary had a debilitating stroke and Guillermo, our statistics man, and the data moved to Florida and became unavailable.
"The Future of Public Education". Completed this as a book chapter for Communitarian Network. Then their plans for the book
changed; not sure if it was ever published.
Family Values: Dilemmas for New Parents. Co-authored with Mary Miller, M.D. in the 70s. Hart Publishing was ready to publish
it, then went out of business. In the mid-80s HK updated it and tried unsuccessfully to get a publisher, then abandoned it
again.
box 12
"100 Ways" materials
This box follows the outline of HK's book
100 Ways to Enhance Values and Morality in Schools and Youths Settings. The folders are full of examples of techniques and methods of values and character education. It contains more examples
than used in the published book.
Also included is and oversized school kit,
An Introduction to Values Clarification – J.C. Penney's – for home economics classes – 1972.