This project did the planning and pilot phases of an effort to improve the teaching of human relations in grades K-12 of public and private schools in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area. In the pilot phase, the project furnished on-the-job training for approximately 70 schools. The training was given by teams of human relations…

This study determined if there were any significant difference in attitudes toward self, towards others, and towards teaching between a group of new teachers who had been exposed to sensitivity training and a group who had not been exposed and also checked differences between pretest, posttest, and follow-up scores. The experimental group of 41…

EIT, or the European Institute for Transnational Studies in Group and Organisational Development, was founded in 1965 as a forum for international trainers in Europe. At present EIT has about 48 members, among which 7 are in the Scandinavian countries. EIT's most important tasks lie within the field of applied social psychology. After many years…

Two well-known theories are empirically tested in relation to a self-analytic group; in addition, their generalizability to a similar sort of group, a therapy group, is explored. The theories explored are those of Schutz and Slater. (Author)

Positive feedback was found to be more desirable and tended to be more believable than negative feedback. A third group, which received a mixture of positive and negative feedback, rated the T group lowest as a learning experience. No significant differences in cohesion resulted from the different feedback conditions. (Author)

Role playing and human relations training are two vital means of producing activities which will make the educational process in the public schools more attuned to the social needs of society. (Author)

There are certain dimensions that a group or group experience can be discriminated upon - in which you can make your own independent evaluations in regard to it being a plus or minus group. If you are in a field which utilizes and employs training groups then you owe it to yourself and to others to make these discriminations. (Author)

As a result of experienced group leaders' responses to and observations of interaction scenarios, three distinct and highly interpretable groups in terms of practices, purposes, and processes are discussed. (BY)

The teacher's role in the development of human beings and projected changes in art education are discussed. (DB)

Through the YMCAs in the United States, more than 7,000 teen agers have participated in sensitivity training experiences. Interactional programs using sensitivity training with teen agers have been introduced, and the results are sufficiently positive in the YMCA to warrant wider exploration with this type of program for young people. (Author)

This paper is intended to promote serious and deep reflection on the desirability of applying the concept of encounter to education. (AN)

The results of this study show that laboratory training facilitates constructive process change in the anxiety expression of individuals who are receiving individual personal counseling for anxiety reduction. (Author)

In the study reported here, feelings of alienation, as measured by Keniston's (1968) Alienation Scale, were generally found to decrease as a result of particularized group experience. (Author)