Suggests that school administrators must learn to manage their time so they can spend as much time as possible working with teachers, students, other administrators, and parents. (Author/JM)

Examining the relationship of teachers' human relations skills to certain personal characteristics, classroom observations by independent observors, and ratings by supervisors and students, this study indicated certain positive relationships, suggesting more emphasis be placed on facilitative response and less on discriminatory activities in…

Hipple's Interpersonal Relationship Rating Scale (1972) was administered to graduate students in a counselor education program. The results were factor analyzed and six scales were extracted. The IRRS was then administered to two classes of students in group counseling. Both groups had significant discrepancy scores. (Author)

The human being, while essentially solitary and desiring independence, is at the same time deeply in need of companionship and acceptance and is concerned for the well-being of others. (JD)

Preschoolers (N=36) and second graders (N=41) were asked to rank preference of a white child, black and an Indian. Subjects were middle-class white southern students who ranked the sharing of small items and their companions in hypothetical social interaction situations. Influence of race of the recipient on sharing behavior is believed to vary…

Successful leaders possess technical, human relations, and conceptual skills. Often, due to its complexity, leadership is overlooked as a teachable skill. Choosing a leadership style depends on several factors, including the leader, group, and situation. Six leadership styles (democratic, benevolent autocratic, consultive, participative,…

Five types of social talk are identified as self-expression, recreating information, competition, expressions of curiosity, and entertainment; then, social talk is dismissed as insufficient to keep one truly alive. Spirit talk--comprised of emotional generosity, the search for solutions, and the pursuit of mystery--sharpens the sensibilities,…

Examined the possible mechanisms of risk among adolescents (n=55) exposed to the stress associated with the diagnosis of cancer in a parent. Girls whose mothers had cancer reported significantly more anxious-depressed symptoms than girls whose fathers were ill or boys whose mothers or fathers had cancer. Examines possible causes of stress in the…

Stories create opportunities for readers to consider values that guide human action in both the imaginary context of a tale and the real context of their lives. Stories provide insight, but never closure. Students who read both novels and textbooks score better than those reading only one format. (MLH)

Identifies the types of individuals engaged in financial activities with whom an acquisitions librarian at a university library may need to interact. Discusses why financial relationships with these individuals are important to acquisitions librarians and how these relationships can be established and enhanced. (JMV)

The cautionary figure of windigo has lurked at the edges of Louise Erdrich's writing since her first collection of poems in 1984. In "The Antelope Wife" it finally emerges into full view. A windigo is defined as a cannibalistic monster set loose by human greed, envy, and jealousy. Traditional Ojibwe windigo stories usually focus on the starving…

Secondary career-technical education programs in Mississippi are faced with many challenges resulting from sweeping educational reforms at the national and state levels. Schools and teachers are increasingly being held accountable for providing true learning activities to every student in the classroom. This accountability is measured through…

A primary internal concern of an intimate relationship is that each partner communicates with the other. A breakdown of communication may occur when an occurrence construed as minor or negligible by one partner precipitates a major explosion of anger, rage, and hurt by the other. Both partners may be at fault for allowing a disagreement to reach…

An experiment was conducted to investigate variables which affect a communicator's attribution of freedom to a communicatee. As predicted, greater freedom was attributed to the communicatee (1) when the reaction to the communication was favorable, and (2) when a subsequent communication was to be directed toward the same communicatee. (Author)

This article discusses the need for women to develop all their capacities that will make them eligible for the expanding opportunities becoming available to them. At the same time, the author maintains, men must also be helped to develop their full capacities for humaneness. (Author/EJT)