Needs of teachers and students occasionally conflict. The problem can be solved if the teacher is able to communicate his or her needs, respect students' needs and rights, and show confidence in their ability to be highly adaptable problem solvers. (JD)

Students in the Mississippi State University Department of Agricultural and Extension Education (138) completed a questionnaire designed to identify variables that might cause communication problems in the classes taught in that department. Uncomfortable seating, lack of visual aids, and lack of handouts were the three most important problems…

Strategies that may be used to evaluate and record the progress of students and ways of enlisting parents' aid and understanding of problems are discussed. (JD)

The form and content of teacher-pupil interaction is shown to be related to pupil distance from the teacher. Pupils seated closer to the teacher are more involved in decision making and question answering while those further away are more likely to be lectured to and less likely to participate in classroom decision making.(JMF)

A program designed to strengthen affective competencies in a classroom situation is described. (JD)

Both technical health words and common health words produce communication blockages in college sex education classes. (MM)

Moral education is described here as the process of getting better and better at dealing fairly with conflicting perspectives on what is right in a particular situation. (Author/AM)

This study investigated the hypothesis that information spoken by the teacher immediately following a prolonged silence is learned more effectively than the same information spoken in the normal speech patterns. Results show that prolonged periods of teacher silence can be a means to implement learning. (Author/RM)

A description of research in education for communication with specific reference to the native (French) language class. Linguistic mastery is the ability to adapt the language to various situations. The pedagogical implications of research in the relationship between types of communication and linguistic structure are immense. (Text is in French.)…

Literature on the following topics is reviewed: (1) discourse analysis as it relates to communicative competence; (2) classroom communication, and (3) the needs of students wishing to gain fluency in a foreign language. (MSE)

A technique for writing instruction that integrates reading, writing, and oral presentations in the classroom has been effective in teaching students the close relationship between the organization of speech and the organization of written material. (MSE)

Neither liberation pedagogy nor feminist theories of women's development, taken by themselves, is adequate to produce a feminist pedagogy that fully challenges the androcentric universals of conventional teaching practices. By synthesizing the two approaches, however, feminist pedagogy can be developed in a way that will influence contemporary…

The article develops two theses: Approaches to education must acknowledge the role language plays in constructing the classroom environment; the commitment to equal education is linked to the sociolinguistic context of our educational system. Recent topical research is reviewed. (JL)

This paper shows how student teachers can learn to see, through analysis of videotaped classroom scenes, the underlying rules informing the patterns of interactions between teachers and pupils. A single classroom scene where the first impression is of complete chaos with one student running amok is analyzed in detail. (MT)

Reviews software available to the classroom teacher for desktop publishing and describes specific classroom activities. Suggests using desktop publishing to produce large print texts for students with limited sight or for primary students.(NH)