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…

The program described is concerned with developing an atmosphere and climate in schools which is conducive to personal growth and in which individuals can be open to all experiences and sensitive in their relations with others. Known as the Human Relations Curriculum Development Project, or Project Insight, this program has as its purposes: (1) to…

Discussed is Dakota State College's Experience Oriented Teacher Education Program designed to prepare prospective teachers through experience in addition to theory. This report describes the four major aspects of the program: participation in public school classrooms prior to student teaching, human relations training experience, field seminars,…

Outward Bound is an educational experience of self-discovery that uses challenges found in a natural setting as the teaching medium. Program adaptations of Outward Bound concepts and methods for alternative education fall into five categories: 1) motivational programs, 2) human relations programs within a school, 3) alternatives to traditional…

Three factors, attention, retention, and action, are considered in developing good video models. A discussion of each factor and specific techniques counselors can use to develop good effects of each factor are provided. (Author)

Describes the Human Relations program for secretaries which was experimented with at the University of Northern Colorado during the 1973-74 school year. (Author/JA)

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…

Describes a program for helping people, based on a philosophy stressing the strengths and value of man. (Author/EK)

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…

Describes a workshop in intimacy for (N=10) men. Analyzed intimacy between men based on the verbal expressions of those who attended the workshop. Suggests counselors need to understand male reluctancy towards intimacy with each other to better help them overcome it. (RC)

A program model for use in gifted classrooms focuses on achieving altered states of consciousnes in order to further develop the natural talents of children. (PHR)

Leadership training, offered at 600 colleges and universities, is cited as one solution to America's ethical, political, and economic decline. Most students find that leadership programs give them the mental and psychological tools to succeed. (MLW)

Several plans to improve productivity of workers by use of financial incentives are discussed, and provisions of three of the most successful are outlined, with implications for supervisory training in human resources development. (MF)

The role of the home economics department in desegregating Lake Clifton High School (Baltimore, Maryland) by conducting a human relations campaign and other activities is described. (TA)