This article discusses ways in which elementary and secondary teachers can help students understand, cope, and deal more knowingly with hurt feelings. (Author/RM)

The villain that prevents people from building a sense of community is themselves; their ambivalence about the community and their wish not to get too close to each other. (Author/EA)

An organization and management consultant sees the managerial role as a change agent which provides direction and growth toward corporation goals. It is important that managers have a clear understanding of corporation goals in order to become effective change agents. (EA)

An organizational workshop for staff members focused on organizational change through identification of problems, one-to-one communication, and the writing of contracts for behavioral change. Contract forming assists members to agree on definition of problems, to involve and commit themselves, and to define processes for change. (EA)

Four avenues for helping the elementary student understand the social processes of competition, conflict, cooperation, accommodation, and assimilation are included. (DE)

This study investigated whether dialogue journal writing between hearing and hearing-impaired writers is an effective way of developing social relations between school peers. The project involved 37 teachers of the hearing-impaired and 127 completed journals written by students, aged 10 to 18 years, with at least a third grade reading level.…

To help principals with the supervisory part of their job, this tipsheet offers advice from industry and education experts. From Maxine H. Bishop and Lester R. Bittle comes a definition of supervision that distinguishes conceptual skills from human relations-interpersonal skills and findings from an industry study that identify six common…

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…

A method for recognizing supportive behavior among the students of a seventh grade social studies class, whose disruptive and abusive behavior made learning impossible, resulted in positive personal growth for both teacher and student. (JH)

Changes in adolescents' perceptions of people over 60 years old occurred following two months of daily intergenerational contact in a naturalistic setting (i.e., the school lunch period). Sixth-, seventh-, and eigth-graders' perceptions of the aged became less negative and stereotyped. Boys had more negative stereotyped perceptions of the aged…

The social world of the aged SRO tenant is described and analyzed. Characteristic features include an impoverishment of social roles and relationships which result in a "world of strangers." Dominant norms of SRO life which preclude the establishment of intimacy are examined; these include prescriptive norms of privacy, freedom, and…

The task force study for the NACAC to which the entire September issue of ACAC is devoted, reviews the Constitution of NACAC in the light of changing and expanding needs of NACAC, and studies the relationship between NACAC and the State and Regional branches. (Author/EJT)

Explores the role of sex of speaker and sex of addressee in determining the appropriateness of forms of address. (AM)

This noted educator discusses how to give a child in today's society a sense of his/her own identity, emphasizing that we must modify our culture-bound, period-bound notions which tie identity to ideas of dominance and achievement in a world of limitless growth. (CS)