As a result of personal observations of state institutions for the mentally handicapped, the author describes the tragic and inhuman conditions with vivid examples of specific patients and incidents. The account further explores the entire concept of human abuse which is propagated both by social institutions (such as the prison system) and by…

Presented in introductory sections of this document is a discussion of the implications of recent advances in knowledge and technology and of the population explosion: future society will have an increased emphasis on continuous learning as man's labor is replaced by machines and as the need for peaceful interaction grows. A teacher-scholar for…

This report describes a human relations training methodology which shows the basic importance of attuning students to their own private world of stimulation and is the cutting edge of the motivation to learn. The study includes four sections: (1) methodology of personal growth training, (2) an explanation of why such an intensive method of…

The Department of Educational Administration and Supervision of Memphis State University offered a Desegregation Workshop for approximately 200 administrators during the 1971-72 school year. This workshop, with some modification, continued the Memphis City Schools' initial efforts of 1970-71. This study determined the improvement of the…

Concerned about increasing academic achievement and reducing dropout rates, particularly among disadvantaged students, researchers have sought to apply human relations training to teachers in efforts to change the interpersonal aspects of the teaching-learning situation. This paper reviews six years of such work by two educational researchers…

The right of man to communicate is likely to be a concern of the Speech Communication Association for some time to come. The communication era promises to unfold in the period from 1970 to 2020--the next five decades. The communications models of the future will emphasize both transmitting and receiving capacities and will be concerned with the…

Human Relations was a program offered to Grade 10 students at Churchill Secondary School during the 1971-72 school year in lieu of four courses. The emphasis of the program was on the development of students as people who were more aware of themselves, of other people, and of the environment. The class took part in a variety of activities during…

Three studies are presented in support of a parsimonious interpretation of Fiedler's Least Preferred Coworker (LPC) Scale which has been consistently related to leader effectiveness. Two of the studies found that undergraduate psychology students who scored higher on the LPC scale expressed a more optimistic view of human nature. A field study…

Any attempt to derive conclusions from the literature regarding leadership in education is limited because much of the literature consists of untested opinion and most empirical studies are based on information from one school or one school district and are thus very limited. Most studies utilize variables that are unique to the particular study…

This report summarizes the ideas presented at a parent-child relationship forum for Midwest business and industrial leaders, an offshoot of the 1970 White House Conference on Children. Included is an overview of some of the problems of youth in America, a look at some of the research relating to adults' interacting with children, and a discussion…

This report is a consolidation of the knowledge and skills imparted during the 1973-74 Information Management Training Institute sponsored by Tennessee State University, Meharry Medical College, and the Institute for Services to Education, Inc. Section one of the report includes the proceedings from the sessions conducted on data collection,…

Approximately 250 instructional films are described in Volume Three (1970-1971) of this review. After an introduction which considers film discussions from the instructor's point of view and offers some ideas for conducting a film showing and ordering the films, profiles of the films are presented grouped under such areas as management…

Annotations are provided for selected citations of journal articles and books concerned with all aspects of the interrelations of man, society, environment, science and technology. The entries are arranged within the following major categories, each of which is further subdivided: General references; Resources; Science, Technology, Society;…

All participants were selected on the basis of their leadership qualities, responsible and identifiable concern with the process of school desegregation, and their activities specifically concentrated in the Richmond Unified School District. Of the sixty-nine adult participants, 37 were teachers and 11 were community persons representing both…

Forty-three persons participated in a 4-day workshop designed to explore ways to identify and change attitudes toward advisory councils, how to develop and utilize advisory councils, and to review examples of existing advisory councils or committees. Topics discussed during the workshop included: (1) How To Select and Procure Members, (2)…