Inquiring into controversial issues in the classroom is increasingly important. Teachers meeting opposition might assess representation of the total community in the opposition, determine specific points of disagreement and de facto official support. Remedial and preventive course of action should be explored. (VW)

Participation in decision making, role playing, inquiry into community current events, and study of law and order in urban units facilitate learning concepts of law, order, conflict, and dissent. (VW)

Argues that secondary moral education programs must be taught in the context of human relationships (interactions between and among people) and discusses techniques and issues related to the implementation of such a program, including self-disclosure, dialog, value encounter relationship, teacher qualifications, classroom environment, and grading.…

Examining the relationship of teachers' human relations skills to certain personal characteristics, classroom observations by independent observors, and ratings by supervisors and students, this study indicated certain positive relationships, suggesting more emphasis be placed on facilitative response and less on discriminatory activities in…

Stories create opportunities for readers to consider values that guide human action in both the imaginary context of a tale and the real context of their lives. Stories provide insight, but never closure. Students who read both novels and textbooks score better than those reading only one format. (MLH)

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship of one of the most celebrated areas of the humanistic education movement--values clarification--to some current emphases in secondary school speech communication education. Popular speech communication texts directly incorporate activities found in values clarification literature or…

Students approach courses in communication with a lifetime of experience in the processes to be studied. Their already deeply imbedded attitudes and habits must be considered in planning instruction. Accompanying each course unit might be a series of introspective questions that encourage students to become aware of their relevant preconceptions,…

This dissertation explores the teaching/learning application which simulation-gaming has to offer journalism/mass communication educators. It proposes eight uses to which journalism/mass communication educators can put simulation-games and develops a series of generating principles, based on a broad concept of mass communication, which are…

A course designed to enhance human behavior and social environment content dealing with urban family life is described. The use of sociological and literary material by white and minority team teachers reduces tension generated by examination of material that is close to student experience. (Author/LBH)

To assist faculty members in relating more openly and personally with students the Oshkosh Counseling Center (University of Winconsin) provided a program for faculty volunteers. Faculty and student reactions supported the authors' contention that counselors can successfully provide inservice training in human relations and affective education.…

Social Studies programs are increasing their focus upon social and interpersonal awareness.. This article discusses the teacher's role in teaching about values in social studies classes at the primary and secondary levels. The technique known as the living circle or group guidance is explained. (Author/RM)

Article describes a format for helping children think more about human behavior and about themselves in the process, through classroom discussion. (Author/MM)

Article explores the idea of viewing the teacher as his own technique and modifying the training process to include more emphasis on human relations. (Author)

Any policy of educating people for relationships incorporating the use of small groups should be based on an understanding of the method and the necessary training, according to the author, who discusses various group work practice methods that have been used and problems in some of the techniques. (MF)

Examines the view that computer technology is a tool that will, in and of itself, improve education and ultimately ameliorate social ills, arguing that it is important to think of how social relations are encoded in technologies and technologies encoded in social relations and how the two are mutually constituted. (SM)