This book presents a practical guide on how to improve the communication and cultural awareness among culturally different people. It is organized into three parts which correspond to the three stages of multicultural development: awareness, knowledge, and skills. The first part emphasize the awareness of culturally learned opinions, attitudes,…

Two separate manuals give detailed instructions for setting up and carrying out simulated office practice. The simulation design covers all office skills and all kinds of office situations, from management decisions to ground rules for coffee breaks and includes handling rush jobs. Procedures and roles for seven office positions, from vice…

This simulation is designed for use of guidance teachers as part of a Careers Education program. Although basically dealing with a careers situation, other aspects of guidance emerge--confidentiality, parental problems, writing of references. It is interesting to consider these aspects from the pupils' point of view. The simulation can be used…

The nature of negotiation, particularly bargaining, is explored, and it is suggested that legal educators use a distributive bargaining simulation as the teaching method. Appropriate materials for such a simulation are offered, followed by an explanation of the development of the simulation. An integrative bargaining simulation is also presented.…

Over the past 50 years the U.S. population has shifted from rural to urban areas. Most of the students in U.S. schools today live in urban environments. As a result of this, most students have little knowledge of natural resources and their management. Since these students are the future decision-makers of the country, it is important that they…

This booklet offers practical examples and guidelines to assist job hunters and other applicants in effectively confronting the interview process. Chapters include "Preparing for an Interview," which traces the process from making an initial inquiry to the actual interview situation and analyzes the interviewer's role; "The Job Interview: Practice…

The 35 exercises presented in this paper have been designed to simulate real-life experiences involving the process of persuasion and to enhance understanding of the persuasive process. Among the aspects of the persuasive process dealt with are the identification of persuasive events, emotive language, language intensity, source credibility,…

Ten lessons provide techniques for teaching about conflict in grades kindergarten through six. These lessons, developed to accompany the teaching guidelines outlined in SO 009 795, illustrate how the guidelines might be used in any elementary social studies classroom. Five sample lessons are described for each of two levels: grades K-3 and grades…

The purpose of this leader's manual is to provide teachers of group leadership with background information on, procedures and various uses for simulation videotapes and subsequent class discussions. The primary intention of the simulations and discussion is to aid students or group leadership in becoming more aware of the affect generated in them…

The Industrialist's Manual No. 6 (Dusty Rhodes Cement Company) is one of a set of twenty-one manuals used in METRO-APEX 1974, a computerized college and professional level, computer-supported, role-play, simulation exercise of a community with "normal" problems. Stress is placed on environmental quality considerations. APEX 1974 is an…

Research investigated the aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) effects of sex and ability of subjects grouped in dyads to play the simulation game Life Career. The dependent variable was career maturity and it was hypothesized that role-taking would be an intervening variable. A blocked factorial design was employed with 576 students from grade 11…

This publication was developed as an aid for industrial cooperative training coordinators in the teaching of general related topics for 11th and 12th grade cooperative programs. Major emphasis is on innovative types of materials which can be used to stimulate the type of students who have difficulty in adjusting to traditional teaching materials…

Designed to create an awareness of health problems among children in Third World settings, the board game uses simulation and role playing to help participants identify the symptoms and consequences of six childhood diseases preventable by vaccination: measles, whooping cough, tetanus, diphtheria, polio, and tuberculosis. The game also helps…

The Game Overall Director's Manual is one of a set of twenty-one manuals used in METRO-APEX 1974, a computerized college and professional level, computer-supported, role-play, simulation exercise of a community with "normal" problems. Stress is placed on environmental quality considerations. APEX 1974 is an expansion of APEX--Air…

The Computer Operator's Manual is one of a set of twenty-one manuals used in METRO-APEX 1974, a computerized college and professional level, computer-supported, role-play, simulation exercise of a community with "normal" problems. Stress is placed on environmental quality considerations. APEX 1974 is an expansion of APEX--Air Pollution…