A taxonomy of a communication skills curriculum is described which offers a continuum of learning beginning with awareness, leading to response, then to valuing, then to developing a system of values, and finally to the integration of values making behavior consistent with beliefs. (SB)

Presents the major conceptualizations of John Wallen, as they relate to interpersonal relations. Wallen advises readers to be aware of three basic conditions of human existence: (1) individual experience is private; (2) each person is different; (3) people are interdependent social beings. Four skills are outlined which help bridge interpersonal…

Focuses on ways mental health counselors can participate in working toward peace on many interactional levels. Looks at positively loaded alternatives that mental health professional can consider in their approach to thinking about clients, community, and country. Discusses personal, theoretical, counseling, educational, community, and…

By fully using their human resources, Japanese factories mass produce goods of low cost and high quality. Participation in Japanese factories occurs in a more hierarchical framework than advocated in the Western model of worker democracy. (JOW)

Looks at human information processing as a complex system, concentrating on certain insights about field interactions that will reposition the understanding of mental processes, moving it from an analysis of logical steps to the exploration of the influence that contexts have on human cognitive performance. (CR)

While there has been an increase in empirical research which explores the spirituality of children, few studies have explicitly named and described factors which may inhibit children's expression of their spirituality. This paper, emanating from the author's own research into children's spirituality in Australian Catholic primary schools, presents…

This document is the culmination of a year of cooperative effort between the Michigan Education Association's Human Relations Division and the Human Relations Section of the National Education Association Teacher Rights. These two groups spent the 1971-72 school year working together, with invaluable assistance from New Perspectives on Race, Inc.…

This module allows the learner to examine the manner in which he/she interacts by providing a sample of possible interactions and having the learner demonstrate human relations skills by interacting with others. Role playing, group discussion, and feedback form the crux of this module. (MJM)

Outward Bound is an educational experience of self-discovery that uses challenges found in a natural setting as the teaching medium. Program adaptations of Outward Bound concepts and methods for alternative education fall into five categories: 1) motivational programs, 2) human relations programs within a school, 3) alternatives to traditional…

The complexity of the global society and economy, and the resulting fracturing of social classes across the Midwest, the nation, and the world demand a significant expansion of the importance of human relations training courses for counselor education and for general teacher education. At the University of South Dakota at Vermillion the School of…

Why student/teacher and student/student interaction should be incorporated into individualized instruction. (HB)