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Morreale, Sherwyn P.; Pearson, Judy C. – Communication Education, 2008
This study provides a rationale for the claim that communication instruction is critical to students' future personal and professional success. Thematic analysis of 93 journal and newspaper articles, reports, and surveys provide evidence of the centrality of communication in developing the whole person, improving the educational enterprise, being…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech Curriculum, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Communication
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Lincoln, Melinda G. – Community College Journal, 2002
Suggests that, due to escalating violence in contemporary society, community colleges should offer certificate or degree programs in conflict resolution. Describes a conflict resolution communication program, which teaches communication skills, mediation processes, and coping strategies to prospective mediators. (NB)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Conflict Resolution, Crisis Management, Degrees (Academic)
Clough, Dick B. – 1987
Conflict is a basic social process; there is no conceivable way of removing all conflict from an organization. Interpersonal conflict, often created by interdependency of people and tasks within an organization, lowers staff morale and employee productivity and drives people away. Difficult employees who foster conflicts fall into five distinct…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Communication Skills, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Argyris, Pamela; And Others – 1994
This report describes a program for improving social and conflict resolution skills of primary students in three middle class suburban schools located in a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois. This program was recognized by teaching staff who found students lacking in social skills, problem solving strategies and the ability to solve conflicts.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Conflict Resolution, Cooperative Learning
Inger, Morton – 1991
This document presents a brief overview of conflict resolution in school settings and defines conflict resolution as: (1) a constructive approach to interpersonal and intergroup conflicts that helps people with opposing positions work together to arrive at mutually acceptable compromise solutions; and (2) as the body of knowledge and practice…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Conflict Resolution, Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
Schilling, Dianne – 1993
This book provides activities to introduce or reintroduce students to conflict resolution skills in a deliberate, enjoyable fashion and to elevate their awareness of each person's responsibility to create a cooperative environment wherever they may be. Interdependence is a central theme as is the awareness that dissent and conflict are natural and…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Cooperation