This paper describes the culture of experiential community based learning at Central College, a rural liberal arts college in Midwestern, USA. Pre-service teachers use experiential community based learning to reflect on their personal growth in understanding the needs of diverse learners. Reflections demonstrate how the program contributes to the…

In response to a state regulation calling for a Human Relations Training Program as part of the recertification of teachers, four guidelines were formulated. They are designed to help trainees to: (1) understand contributions and life styles of various racial, cultural, and economic groups in our society; (2) recognize and deal with dehumanizing…

Systematic Human Relations Training (SHRT) is predicated on the basic assumption that there are certain core helper-offered conditions that are necessary in a helping relationship, i.e., empathy, respect, warmth, concreteness, genuineness, self-disclosure confrontation, and immediacy. This, however, is only part of the model. The second basic…

An instrument was designed to test the effects of a human relations training program which conformed to the Minnesota State Guidelines for imparting knowledge, building skills, and developing positive attitudes toward special groups. The training program followed a model for maximizing instruction summarized in Glaser and Resnick (1972) and drew…

This study consists of an analysis of suspension patterns; a description of inhouse suspension programs; perceptions of secondary principals, teachers, and students about discipline in the schools; perceptions of the community about suspension and discipline policies; a review of the district's human relations program; an examination of student…

In the United States today approximately 14,000 people live under false identities provided to them by the Federal Witness Security Program. Successes and failures of the program to obliterate an undesirable history and create an acceptable one in its place were studied. (RM)

Computer-based instructional programs in the affective and communication skills areas incorporating some of the results of an earlier research and development project were implemented and evaluated in a Recruit Training Command. The programs involved the use of a stand-alone computer-based system for evaluating and training recruit company…

A study examined the following four alternatives to traditional vocational-technical high schools for delivering vocational education: apprenticeship programs, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs, cooperative education, and industrial training. Two survey instruments were created specifically for the study: (1) a worker…