The use of distance education by entry-level dental hygiene programs is increasing. The focus of this study was to determine the number of entry-level dental hygiene program administrators with experience developing and/or maintaining dental hygiene education by distance, the challenges encountered, and the strategies used to overcome the…

Background: Geography education typically appears in school curricula in a didactic or disciplinary manner. Yet, both the didactic and the disciplinary approach to geography education lack a serious engagement with society, politics, and power, or democratic theory. We suggest, from Dewey, that most students, the social studies, and indeed society…

This paper explores the policy implications of experiences of African international students (AIS) studying at post-apartheid South Africa universities. It argues that given the spirit and tone of continental, regional, and domestic policies to which South Africa has committed that at the very least there is an implicit expectation of…

Twenty-one teacher candidates and faculty from Turtle Mountain Community College (TMCC, Belcourt, North Dakota) and Cikana Cankdeska Community College (CCCC, Fort Totten, North Dakota) traveled by train from North Dakota to Minneapolis, Minnesota, for an immersion experience as part of their Human Relations and Multicultural Education. The group…

This report consists of a survey of development in local school systems with respect to the assignment of a school staff member with overall responsibility for human relations. The few job descriptions found in this field differed in emphasis. Some focus on the techniques of integration, while others focus on multicultural curricula, human…

Notes that supervisors are not automatically skilled in effective human relations practices. Considers concern with the interests, desires, and attitudes of employees to be the cornerstone of knowledge required to carry on a sound human relations program. Examines reasons for individual differences and components of the will to work. (Author/NB)

Harold Kwalwasser has put together a call to action for education reform that makes a clear case for what has to be done in order to educate all children to their full potential. He visited forty high-performing and transforming school districts, charters, parochial, and private schools to understand why they have succeeded where others have…

This guide presents activities to increase human relations skills for women. Each activity includes sections on the goal, group size, materials required, time required, objective, procedures and directions, discussion questions and key points, and evaluation. Activities are: (1) self-esteem, including sections on interaction, insights, and…

Compares two training programs in a controlled experimental procedure to demonstrate the value of human relations training. (DS)

Maintains that everyone involved in a specific school can benefit from more effective communication; presents a technique of approaching human relations education. (DM)

Ways and programs for teaching youngsters to understand both other people and themselves are described. (CK)

This is the report of a study accomplished in two separate parts: (1) Part I dealt with evaluation of an existing course of instruction in human relations at The Moraine Park Technical Institute, and (2) Part II dealt with the development of a proposed course of instruction in human relations for the technical institute. (Author)