Need for meaning entails the growth of self-consciousness and is accompanied by a drive that is essentially philosophical: the need to find meaning in one's existence. Questions generally posed are: Who am 1? What is the meaning of life? What is the good life? In other words, it is a search for personal meaning.

Social needs entail the need for developing the capacity for mutually enriching relationships'. One needs, social skills and confidence and compassion for others.

Aesthetic needs entail the experience of beauty in one's life. To be able to appreciate works of art, or to express one's self through a work of art, literary work, or performing arts.

Survival needs entails the survival of self and survival of the people. For the survival of self, the individual needs knowledge and. skills conducive to survival of self such as how to swim, drive, first aid, physical fitness, good nutrition habits, information on tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.⁸

Other Process Design Questions are:

• What should your system of education be doing to prepare your people for the future?
• What cultural knowledge and skills do learners need to know and be able to do and be committed to?
• From Western-based culture, what other knowledge and skills do your people and learners need to know? Be able to do? Be committed to?
• What cultural values and/or beliefs do your learners need to know and pass down?

The Committee might also discuss the following questions:

• How did things used to be?
• How did things get to be the way they are now?
• What is the current situation or condition?

⁸ See Curriculum: Design and Development by David Pratt, 1980, pp. 54-62.