In this report on a two-day workshop involving the Vermont Education Association (VEA) and its Subject Matter Affiliates, the main concern is identified as an effort to develop an effective means by which the VEA and its affiliates can provide mutually rewarding assistance to each other. The first session was primarily concerned with examining the…

Abstract ideas and concepts are understood more easily and fully if some visual representation can be shown. Reiss developed a graphic concept of how a primary social relationship develops. Purpose here is to review this theory and to propose an alternative and dynamic graphic model of his concept. (Author)

Male college students were first angered by a confederate's critical evaluation of their autobiographical letters. They were then given one of three procedures designed to reduce hostile aggression: an expression of their feelings; a reinterpretation of the criticism; and a combination of expression and reinterpretation. (Author)

Examines the influences which prior task modeling instruction, sex and degree of trust have upon self disclosure in an analogue interview. (HMV)

Male university students were randomly assigned to one of the following instructional conditions: specific instructions to discuss personal feelings within specified topic areas, general instructions, or no instructions. Half of the subjects also listened to a model discussing his feelings. All subjects then participated in a brief monologue,…

Periods of silence in counseling groups may be productive or nonproductive for individual members. Specific constructive counselor behaviors are presented for dealing with silence in counseling groups. (Author)

The study suggests that prolonged interaction with normal children can influence the social behavior of a group of hard-of-hearing handicapped. (Author)

From "Educational Leadership/Research Supplement, v2 n5 May 1969, edited by the Research Council of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (James Raths, Chairman).

Research Funded by the Central Fund for Research, Pennsylvania State University (Grant (Grant No. 151).

This research project, designed to examine social learning in infancy, attempted to examine the process of infant interaction through its beginning, middle, and end. Pairs of previously unacquainted 21-month-old children were observed in a laboratory playroom for 15-minute sessions on three consecutive days; on the fourth day, new dyads were…

Questions about students' competence in classrooms are addressed in three parts: the suitability of ethnography as a research strategy, a summary of research that examines the social organization of classroom events, and the consequences of this organization for students' performance in the classroom. The discussion of methodology leads to the…