High school students often feel ineffective; they feel that they are stuck in between ages and have little ability to change situations and feel useful. Many people feel that drawing ability or talent is a random gift, not an accomplishment that they can use to affect the world. The author, in her class, presents her idea of drawing a portrait of…

Extant academic literature, the media and views expressed by staff and students report that both local and international students are experiencing dissatisfaction with the lack of inter-cultural student interaction occurring in classrooms, group discussions and teamwork in post-graduate studies in the Australian higher education sector. It has…

Objectives: The goal of the Intercultural Partnership Project is to introduce students to issues surrounding language and cultural identity, with the ultimate goal of helping students see themselves as engaged participants, rather than observers, in a multicultural community. For students in the intercultural communication class, this goal echoes…

This paper explores the efficacy of employing the cohort model of teacher education for preparing pre-service teachers to address issues of race within an urban university setting. The results of the research indicate that the cohort facilitates a degree of familiarity and support amongst the teacher candidates, provides exposure to diverse…

Sensitivity to second-order relational information (i.e., spatial relations among features such as the distance between eyes) is a vital part of achieving expertise with face processing. Prior research is unclear on whether infants are sensitive to second-order differences seen in typical human populations. In the current experiments, we examined…

Confirms that the interpersonal orientation of encounter group training enhances the ability of a person to be hypnotized by another. (AN)

It is evident from literature that boys, especially African-American boys are viewed as "troublemakers" and this perception begins with teachers at the preschool level. In this paper, the author examines whether or not students in early childhood education from a community college receive adequate gender-sensitivity training. The students from a…

Librarians need to be aware of the various techniques being developed for dealing with interpersonal communication. (Author/PF)

Novel experiences, created to give students a feeling that their education has some purpose, are presented. (CK)