Reports findings of a study which revealed that selected school principal interactions, aspirations, and nonverbal behaviors are predictors of school administrator potential for promotion in an urban school district. Describes the administrator subculture as clanlike and guildlike and asserts that this pattern plays a crucial role in determining…

Discusses intergroup relations, focusing on three issues: the social psychology of intergroup relations; the value of a cross-cultural perspective; and the contributions of this issue of the "Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development." (SED)

Presents a review of literature and a historical and sociopolitical overview of ethnic relations and intergroup processes in Malaysia and Singapore. The paper reviews data on intergroup relations and ethnolinguistics in these countries from a social-psychological perspective, and in terms of assimilation and integration. (SED)

Commune residents and university students were asked to compare present and past social interactions in terms of 13 questions derived from differences between nuclear and extended families. Findings confirmed the hypothesis that communal social roles evolve to become similar to those in extended families, with the exception of work roles.…

Many counselors, social workers, and psychologists routinely use the DSM-IV-TR as a basis for most psychological diagnoses. This includes counselors' work with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. Multicultural counseling theorists and practitioners are beginning to voice their concerns about finding a more appropriate alternative to the…

The purpose of this study was to observe the effects of acculturation on intragroup cooperation and competition among Blackfoot and White Canadian children; teams of boys from an integrated elementary school played a game on the Madsen Cooperation Board. (Author/JM)

Describes as an example of what a non-school agency is doing to ease desegregation the Greater Dallas Human Relations Commission's sponsorship of the Washington Street "Soul Survivors," a group of 12 blacks and 12 whites performing race relations-oriented entertainment. (JM)

What we can now anticipate is an ethnic renaissance, a rediscovery of America's hidden minorities in education, religion, and social action. (DM)

Assessments of intergroup relations today as deteriorating are not only inaccurate and misleading, but also work against the solution to the very problems deplored: they fail to consider how group relations have been changing for the better with the passage of years and laws. (Author/JM)

Children between the ages of thirteen and fourteen participated in a free discussion lesson. Tolerance and understanding of interpersonal relationships developed among the children; the teacher learned to respond objectively in order to encourage the children's trust. (JB)

Having helped to solve the myriad difficulties of opening a ghetto day-care center, the authors found they were accepted gratefully as advocates by the parents committee they had formed--but that the parents wanted to run the center in their own way, an outcome they applaud as healthy and encouraging. (PD)

The current reorganization of the Soviet educational system represents an attempt to cope with demands imposed upon education by the functioning of a modern industrial society. (Author/MB)

This study examined the ways in which teacher work values affect group development within relatively closed and open school organizational systems. The overall findings suggest that these different types of formal organization generate dissimilar social structures in their work groups which are related to the disparate work values of group…