Some Hidden Elements of Control in Group Facilitation: Appreciating the Bounded and Binding Aspects of Openness.

Kaplan, Robert E.

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Publication Date: 1985

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Some Hidden Elements of Control in Group Facilitation: Appreciating the Bounded and Binding Aspects of Openness.

Kaplan, Robert E.

Small Group Behavior, v16 n4 p462-76 Nov 1985

Suggests that open interaction is exquisitely controlled social behavior, and groups employing it possess an impressive potential for social influence. These misrepresentations of the power of the activity and the group leader constitute a kind of mystification by the practitioner of himself or herself and his or her clientele. (Author/BL)

Descriptors: Group Activities, Group Behavior, Humanism, Individual Power, Leaders, Leadership, Social Control

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