The article argues that physical education must make more use of games that involve risk and challenge if it is to develop youthful self-confidence and independence. (CD)

The article describes group games which physical education teachers can use to encourage cooperative problem solving, risk taking, and trust among participants, rather than competition. (CD)

Most committees are frustrating to the members because of the lack of committeeship: the administrative processes, skills, and techniques required to accomplish a desired task. The author attempts to furnish guidelines on 1) whether a committee should be formed, 2) ensuring successful committee operations, and 3) providing a checklist for…

The problem-solving method most often used in problem-solving groups is likely to create relationships among members of the group that will lead to a win-lose solution. To avoid this, members can list conditions they feel a solution must meet before they can accept it. (Author)

The results of this study support the theory that spatial behavior norms are learned early in life. Results show that Black children stand closer than Whites in the primary school years and also stand less directly. White female children are most distant and Black female children are closest in space range. (WI)

This article centers around a training of trainers course. The course was developed in response to student and departmental needs to provide advanced graduate students with the opportunity to have supervised practicum experience and explore theoretical issues in group training as part of their education and preparation within the department.…

This paper examines some of the problems associated with institutionalizing delinquent children and concludes with a proposal to abolish the training school system as practiced in Ontario. (MJB)

Two experiments explore the possibility of applying the theory of infor mation integration to study playgroup attractiveness. Subjects are six- and seven-year-old children. (CM)

The great challenge for teacher education is to develop laboratory experiences that make the teacher education student more realistic about classroom teachers' group norms and the school bureaucracy without simultaneously damaging high expectations and ideals. (JD)

Effective meetings require three simultaneous operations: task activity (working on the agenda), maintenance (keeping the group in good working order), and team building (strengthening group's capacity to face future issues successfully). Discusses twelve reasons for group dysfunction during meetings. (EM)

Investigation compared outcomes among a six-hour, one-session-only assertion training workshop model, a six-week one-hour session per week assertion training model, and a control group. (Author/PD)

This study was designed to determine the effect of a well-defined group procedure, attitudinal "group-centered counseling" (Lifton, 1968) on the level of openness of a group of undergraduate college students. (Author/PD)

The relationship between a group's power and prestige or status hierarchy and group members' patterns of reward allocation was investigated. The addition of evidence concerning actual task performance results in the alignment of reward and status rankings and encourages the use of distribution rules stressing equity as opposed to equality.…

Coalition preferences of 300 male and female subjects were ascertained under varying motivational conditions. Demonstrates that coalition formation and interpersonal conflict are dependent upon the motivational determinants of group activity. (Editor/RK)

Though proven to be an indispensable vehicle for the fulfillment of both individual and societal needs, small group process has not been free of theoretical disputes. This paper reviews a number of yet unresolved concomitants of group process, attempts a synthesis, and proffers some "fresh" ideas. (Author)