A system of staff and patient-staff meetings was initiated to clarify the psychodynamics of ward interactions and to reduce conflicts. Observations were made on the program's effect on the therapeutic milieu. It was concluded that the program failed because the adolescent patients felt threatened by over-analysis. (SJL)

Teachers can learn to describe unacceptable student behavior, without judging it, and to define classroom conflicts as problems to be solved, not battles to be won. Two studies demonstrate that this type of democratic classroom environment decreases misbehavior and absenteeism. (SJL)

Supervisors can help their teachers resolve classroom communication conflicts by providing an objective framework for analysis of communication failures. An observational system is described for detection of student teacher communication breakdown, analysis of the conflict resulting from inappropriately decoded messages, and correction of the…

Attempts to present reasons for using negotiation to resolve school conflicts, using a model based on the understanding of conflict and the cognitive and affective response to conflict. Describes the research upon which the model is based, how school personnel may be trained to use negotiation, and discusses briefly the relationship of negotiation…

Calls attention to a process of social negotiation in specific contexts between the distressed person and those with whom he/she is involved that shapes the way troublesome events are progressively understood. (Author/AM)

This article focuses on one principal's efforts to cope with a conflict situation involving a teacher and to confront his own limitations in perspective and role. The story unfolds through his own narrative, commentary on that narrative, and dialogue with a consultant. (Author/DS)

Evaluates the reasons for the conflict between suburban school students and administrators that began in the 1960's and ended abruptly in 1973. Also explains how these conflicts were overcome and the net outcome of the student administrator conflict. (RK)

Discusses controversies surrounding the issue of whether college newspaper editors must be enrolled as students; points to distinctive features in recent issues of numerous high school and college newspapers; offers tips relating to news writing and front page art. (GW)

In part 1 of this article (EJ 159 850) it was shown how Lady Simon and other members of the Spens Committee were concerned that the hope expressed by the Hadow Committee (1926) for equalization of conditions in all forms of post-primary education should not be left unfulfilled. Here Lady Simon's concern that progress towards "equality"…

Discusses the importance of decision making in daily living and of teaching decision making skills in schools; outlines a decision making strategy; lists a sequence of questions as an example of a decision making approach; and presents a decision making map to help in the decision making process. (Author/JK)

Explains how a dialectical approach to geography can help students analyze geographical issues and recognize the unspoken assumptions of any particular scientific method. The author describes his course in which conservative, liberal, and radical perspectives are used to examine the population problem in the Third World. (Author/AV)

By examining some of the recent changes in adolescents and in school environment, some insights into desirable methods for coping with discipline problems may be gained. (Author/RK)

Thirty-two eighth-and twelfth-grade daughters and their mothers were audiotaped as they discussed unresolved mother-daughter conflict themes. The purpose was to examine how maternal regulation and daughters striving for autonomy reflected in dyadic communications. Results indicated that mothers regulated conversation through questions while…

Reveals that individuals personally cope with spoiled relationships and socially manage relationship dissolution principally through verbal accounts. Indicates that the structural and affective enmeshment of marital couples lend to their disengagement accounts a characteristic complexity not paralleled in the accounts of unmarried couples. (JD)