This study attempts to verify tentative operational assumptions about what the concept of humanness in teaching means. While the measures obtained would appear to validate these assumptions underlying course content, methods, and objectives, the results present a crude, simplistic picture. (Author/KJ)

Discusses the failure of libraries to adapt to our changing society and proposes several areas of improvement for library services which would meet the existing needs. (RM)

Clarifies three basic causes of the success of human resource development functions from an internal marketing perspective. They are functions actively rendering services in the right "client segments" of their organization; functions doing a few important tasks well; and doing those right things consistently. (CT)

Themes of death and loss have often been treated with greater eloquence in literature than in psychology and the helping professions. This article explores the treatment of bereavement and mortality in some of Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies, illustrating his deep understanding of the place of loss in human life. (Author)

Search Institute's decade-plus emphasis on the elements of positive human development and community approaches to asset building can make a meaningful contribution to the field of child welfare. The institute's framework of developmental assets identifies a set of interrelated experiences, relationships, skills, and values that are associated with…

Underpinning the technical gaze that dominates learning disabilities theory and practice is the assumption that learning disabilities are a pathology that resides in the heads of individual students, with the corollary that remedial efforts also focus on what goes on in the heads of students classified as learning disabled. This article begins…

Notions of action research and of integrating object relations and field psychologies have exerted a steady influence on both the initial formation of The Tavistock Institute in London and on the subsequent 60 years of its professional identity and approach to work. These notions can be tied directly to early scientific contact with Kurt Lewin,…

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to analyze the historical development of HRD knowledge. The analysis aims to use the qualitative research technique of text deconstruction on an important management text from the human relations phase of organization theory. Deconstruction is not a common method to HRD. In this paper, HRD scholars…

This bibliography is comprised of abstracts of 115 ERIC documents (reports, books, articles, and speeches) on human relations activities for the schools, including sensitivity training and self-image enhancement activities. Six sections cover (1) background material on human relations, (2) general material on the need for intergroup activities,…

Developed by a state committee on human relations for administrators, classroom teachers, special service personnel, parents, and community groups, this curriculum guide contains ideas and suggestions for implementing principles of human relations into the educational system. Major sections discuss: (1) The American Democratic Society, (2) Major…

Kinship systems and their place in language are discussed. (RM)

Educators, since they influence young lives every day, must be more aware than most people of how their private views of the world affect their perceptions. This article explores the concept. (Editor)

Study supported by a grant (GS-1438) from the National Science Foundation, Division of Social Sciences.