Human Relations Development: A Manual for Educators - Softcover

Gazda, George Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205160883 ISBN 13: 9780205160884

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1999

Synopsis

/*0205445683 Gazda, Human RElations Development 7e*/Given the critical and ever-increasing importance of collaboration and co-teaching, effective home-school partnerships, and nurturing teacher-student relationships, the need has never been greater for this new edition of Human Relations Development. This much-lauded text is a skills training manual for improving interpersonal communication, focusing on human relations between teachers and their students, parents, peers, and the general public. The emphasis of the text is that <169>interpersonal communication and human relations<170> is one of four generic life-skills, an essential skill of all educators. Core conditions of empathy, respect, warmth, concreteness, genuineness, appropriate self-disclosure, confrontation, and immediacy are addressed and applied chapter by chapter. Scales for each of these conditions are included so that trainees can learn how to rate their level of functioning both globally and specifically. Issues of the changing roles of educators and theory/applications of multicultural issues in schools and the classroom are also discussed. Special Education applications are included in each chapter.

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The need has never been greater for this new edition of Human Relations Development given the critical and ever-increasing importance of collaboration and co-teaching, effective home-school partnerships, and nurturing teacher-student relationships. This much-lauded text is a skills training manual for improving interpersonal communication, focusing on human relations between teachers and their students, parents, peers, and the general public.

“I think this is a terrific text that is well suited to helping educators learn how to deal with a variety of difficult people and situations.”
Robert N. Jackson — Dakota State University

“Students begin to appreciate the complexity of language and the examinations require them to apply the concepts they’ve learned!”
David L. Gray — The University of South Alabama

The emphasis of the text is that “interpersonal communication and human relations” is one of four generic life-skills. Core conditions of empathy, respect, warmth, concreteness, genuineness, appropriate self-disclosure, confrontation, and immediacy are addressed and applied chapter by chapter. Scales for each of these conditions are included so that trainees can learn how to rate their level of functioning both globally and specifically. Issues of the changing roles of educators and theory/applications of multicultural issues in schools and the classroom are also discussed.

Synopsis

A manual for developing human relations skills, for elementary and secondary educators, administrators, counselors, social workers, and students in the teaching and helping professions, based on the Carkhuff model for human relations training. Covers perceiving and responding, ineffective communication styles, nonverbal behaviors, confrontation, an

Edition details

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205160883
• ISBN 13: 9780205160884
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 320