The article describes an adaptation for nine deaf 14-year-old students of "The Magic Circle", an approach to affective education which focuses on personal maturity, competency and constructive social interactions. (CL)

Explains how social studies teachers can teach cooperative behavior to junior high students. Three critical factors are length of time student groups have worked together, interdependence of goals attached to the tasks, and interdependence of means to accomplish the tasks. (Author/AV)

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)

Examines the view that computer technology is a tool that will, in and of itself, improve education and ultimately ameliorate social ills, arguing that it is important to think of how social relations are encoded in technologies and technologies encoded in social relations and how the two are mutually constituted. (SM)

The author contends that a comprehensive approach to differentiating instruction for the gifted must involve values, feelings, personal growth, and interpersonal relations so the gifted child is free to realize his optimum potential. The paper describes some of the major adjustment problems faced by the gifted as well as some approaches to…

This paper examines how computer technology changes the nature of experience and knowledge through the philosophical lens of phenomenologist Don Ihde, suggesting that educators must increase their awareness of the ways that computer technologies modify, extend, and transform the nature of experience in the classroom. (SM)

Argues that the content of language arts education is directly linked to the personal growth of students, which is the central purpose of education. Includes suggestions for classroom application of this concept. (DF)

This research paper addresses the development of peace education initiatives through exploring primary sources, photographs, essays, prayers and writings of children from 1828 until the present. There has been a "hidden history" of peace education that chronicles humanitarian and education efforts but has not been clearly documented.…

The Orange County (California) Human Relations Council exists to improve intergroup relations by enabling a representative group of school community members to work collaboratively toward creating and sustaining a safe, inclusive school climate that is respectful of society's diversity. The Council concentrates on training and encouraging…

Developed in response to the need for ways to help build better understanding and appreciation of people of all ethnic groups, this guidebook presents author-tested lessons, activities, and teaching ideas suitable for use in elementary/secondary classes in which all or part of the students are Alaska Natives or in classes where none of the…

Identifies cultural universals as general categories of traits that all cultures possess, the delineation of which can distinguish one culture from another. These include, material culture, social organization, and economic organization. Discusses teaching strategies for exploring these phenomena. Includes a sample lesson and related World Wide…

This document discusses classroom discipline and the teacher's role in promoting student understanding of the democratic process and respect for structure in social groups. Definitions of discipline include punishment, school regulations, and classroom rules enforced by the teacher as a reasonable authority. In explaining the need for rules and…

Describes Student Team Learning (STL), an especially useful teaching strategy in accomplishing the objectives of improved human relations among students and between teachers and students, enhancement of students' and teachers' self-concepts, reduced minority isolation, provision by school districts of an equal opportunity for academic success for…

The abridged questionnaire used to gather the data for "Measuring Human-Relations Attitudes and Values with Situational Inventories" is presented. Its contents are 10 problematic situations that might be faced in an elementary or high school classroom. Following each situation there is a list of possible alternatives that a teacher might take.…

Examines how new educational technologies can invigorate existing educational communities, facilitate the creation of new educational communities, and interfere with the formation of desired types of educational communities. Focuses on e-mail, listservs and newsgroups, electronic publication, and the World Wide Web, and discusses issues of equity.…