NOTING THAT THE FIELD OF HUMAN RELATIONS HAS RECEIVED MORE ATTENTION IN THE LAST GENERATION THAN EVER BEFORE, THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS HAS REVISED ITS 1956 EDITION OF SELECTED READING LITERATURE. READINGS ARE DIVIDED INTO SEVEN CATEGORIES--PREJUDICE - CAUSES, PREVENTION AND CURE, RELIGION - UNDERSTANDING RELIGIOUS GROUPS,…

A REVIEW OF MAIN TRENDS IN RECENT HUMAN RELATIONS RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES, PARTICULARLY AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE WORK OF SIGMUND LIVINGSTON FELLOWS, IS PRESENTED. THE FOCUS IS ON STUDIES DEALING WITH ETHNIC, RACIAL, OR RELIGIOUS CATEGORIES, AND ON RESEARCH DEALING WITH INTERGROUP PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION. THE THREE MAJOR TRENDS IN RESEARCH…

REPRESENTATIVE CONCEPTS AND HIGHLIGHTS FROM RESEARCH LITERATURE WERE SUMMARIZED AND INTEGRATED DURING THIS PROJECT, INVOLVING (1) REVIEW AND INTEGRATION OF RECENT, RELEVANT RESEARCH IN ADULT EDUCATION, (2) REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH IN RELATED DISCIPLINES AND APPLIED FIELDS, (3) INTERVIEWS OF LEADING PERSONS IN THESE DISCIPLINES AND APPLIED FIELDS,…

This selective bibliography of periodical literature deals with the subject of women and their changing role in society. The span of time covered is primarily 1960 to the present, with a scattering of articles from much earlier dates. This bibliography offers citations from many areas, e.g., social science, education, and the humanities, and…

This publication ranges from discussion of the reasons for human behavior to details important in effective selection and training of personnel. Divided into 15 chapters, the material covered includes such topics as Understanding Behavior, The Human Being on the Job, Training, Planning Work, and Handling Individual Problems. Intended primarily for…

This paper explores the use of fantasy in human relationships with emphasis on its contrasting uses in American and Japanese culture. Fantasy is defined as a private world of conversation or expectations of the self that may not be sufficiently verbalized for a person to have a very clear understanding of its meaning in his or her experience.…

The author discusses 12 principles for helping K-12 students develop values. The principles are: watch your modeling; help students feel secure and cared for; help students feel capable and appreciated; accept student confusions with empathy; encourage the sharing of confusions; make learning a living process; introduce neglected life issues for…

The only way that a program of school desegregation can be successfully implemented is with strong community participation. Boards of Education must develop policies to provide quality education in a culturally pluralistic society. Through community education, the school sytem can look at the total community in terms of its needs, wants, problems,…

Intended to serve as either a training program for local educators or as an idea bank for shorter career education training programs, this manual presents a five-day intensive training program based on two major thrusts. The first thrust is team building through human relations experiences. The second thrust is a sequential curriculum design for…

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship of one of the most celebrated areas of the humanistic education movement--values clarification--to some current emphases in secondary school speech communication education. Popular speech communication texts directly incorporate activities found in values clarification literature or…

Historically, the study of health communication has been confined primarily to the field of medicine. Recently, however, it has increased in importance in other areas of human communication. Exploring a new approach to health communication is the purpose of this paper. Specifically, the thrust of this investigation is the use of dialogue as a mode…

The Air Force has maintained an increasing awareness of the basic principles of personnel counseling and human relations. However, it does not have a basic integrated counseling program at base level. This study addresses five base level activities whose dominant mission involves counseling. These activities are: the Education Services Office,…

A need to integrate the various trends in education including career development, human relations, and individualized instruction in a group setting was a primary motivation for this book. A second motivation was the need for "hands on" materials and strategies that teachers and counselors could use with students--in this case primarily at the…

An experimentl was designed to replicate and confirm previous research findings which suggest that the way persons communicate is related to their perceptions of communication behavior. The experiment was successful. Subjects with low Communicator Style Measure (CSM) scores do not report perceiving a significant difference. Three raters evaluated…

An infographic model is proposed to account for the operation of systems within their information environments. Infographics is a communication paradigm used to indicate the clustering of information processing variables in communication systems. Four propositions concerning environmental uncertainty and internal communication network complexity,…