The roots of the interpersonal communication program at the University of Kansas (Lawrence) lay in the human relations training program initiated there in the late 1940's. Probably the major contribution of human relations to interpersonal communication was in its focus on experiential learning through laboratory training. In the fall of 1967, an…

This volume contains evaluation reports of programs implemented primarily during the summer of 1968, in the Los Angeles Unified School District, funded through Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Elementary level programs concentrated on educational enrichment, the development of staff in the areas of human relations and…

The Tri-Cultural Sensitivity In-Service Training Program, funded by the Federal government under the provisions of Title IV, Public Law 88-352 (Civil Rights Act) of 1964, was developed in response to the results of a system-wide survey of the staff in 1967. Eighty-five percent of the teachers granted that a deficiency in knowledge, understanding,…

This address asserts that the profession of school administrator cannot reach full maturity unless it recognizes, one and for all, that separate schools are as unsound educationally as they are legally and morally; unless it decreases the deliberation and increases the speed which it brings leadership to America's major unresolved social,…

The main objective of the desegregation evaluation was to determine how court-ordered desegregation requirements and specially funded desegregation activities influenced the organization and operation of the school system and the achievement of pupils. A number of specific questions were derived from this objective. Have desegregation activities…

The objective of the project reported here was to devise and put into operation a social studies program for junior high school students in the seventh and eighth grades. The objectives for this program were to develop the informed individual with: 1) a good self-concept with a sense of individual worth; 2) a sense of moral judgment; 3) a valid…

This document is the culmination of a year of cooperative effort between the Michigan Education Association's Human Relations Division and the Human Relations Section of the National Education Association Teacher Rights. These two groups spent the 1971-72 school year working together, with invaluable assistance from New Perspectives on Race, Inc.…

This report describes the measurable impact of the course, Human Relations, on student attitudes and a synthesis of views from extensive teacher interviews. (Technical aspects of the evaluation design, instrumentation, and tables are appended.) Experimental subjects were 811 students, grades 9-12, who were completing the semester course. 14…

Phase 1 of a two-part project entitled Utilizing the Competency Approach for Professional Development of Home Economics Teachers developed a model for use in determining the feasibility of establishing a competency based approach in home economics teacher education at the University of Delaware. A review of the literature identified the current…

This article focuses on open schools or schools without walls, those experiments within the public school system involving a reconceptualization of the role of the school in the educational process. A brief review of the free school movement (those experiments outside public schools) is also included. The stated goal of the open school is to help…

The publication describes the development and implementation of a State plan for career education in Louisiana (1973-74) based on a nine-component model. The components described are: curriculum development and revision, career education inservice training at the elementary and secondary level, inservice training at the college and university…

The Institute's many purposes include: (1) sensitizing educators to the need for career development education; (2) assisting teachers to develop instructional units into which career education activities will be infused; (3) collecting community resources for the teachers' utilization; (4) assisting counselors to back up teachers during…