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RACIAL CONFLICTS:
Explains Problems
Of City Teachers
'Man for All Seasons' BEHAVIORIAL PSYCHOLOGY:
By DUANE MACKIE
"The general tendency is to
train teachers as if they're going
out to teach in middle-class Amer-
lea," Prof. David Gottlieb, of
Michigan State University said
yesterday.
Actually, many of them are go-
ing out to teach in the "combat
zones of the inter-city," where
the instructor comes face to face
with the "culturally alienated" -
the Negro, the Puerto Rican, Mex-
ican, the poor whites in the large
cities, he asserted.
The average white teacher
comes from a middle class back-
ground, attends middle c 1 a s s
schools and as a result expects to
teach "the Pepsodent kid," the
middle class student.
Negro Teacher
The situation is far different for
the Negro teacher, Prof. Gottlieb
pointed out. Unlike the white
teacher, 70 per cent of the Negro
teachers come from the inner,
city. Thirty per cent had no father
in the home, as compared to only
four per cent for the white teach-
ers, he added.
'The different backgrounds and
expectations result in different
perceptions of the school situation,
Prof. Gottlieb noted. A recent
study revealed that among these
teaching in the inner city, the
most dissatisfied were the whites,
especially those with middle class
backgrounds. The dissatisfaction
increased with years spent in the
classroom, he said.
In contrast, Negro teachers were
happier in their jobs, only 26 per
cent of them asking for more in-
tensive teacher training while in
school; 62 per cent of the white
teachers made the same sugges--
tion, he explained.
Reasons for dissatisfaction were
quite different for Negro and white
teachers, Prof. Gottlieb said.
Among Negro teachers, complaints
were usually directed toward "sys-
tem factors," 70 per cent calling
for more and better materials and
facilities.
White teachers, on the other
hand, blamed dissatisfactions on
human factors, 75 per cent regis-
tering that complaint, he added.
When teachers from different
schools throughout the country
were asked opinions of their all-
Negro kindergarten and first grade
c l a s s e s, discrepancies between
white and Negro teacher reactions
ranged as high as 56 per cent,
Prof. Gottlieb reported.
Divided Opinions
Negro teachers listed them as
fun loving, cooperative and ambi-
tious, in that order. White instruc-
tors, however, said that the Negro
children were lazy, easy going and
rebellious, he said.
A similar phenomenon takes
place with adolescent Negro stu-
dents, Prof. Gottlieb said. While
there is no great problem in all-
Negro or all-white schools, the
Negro student in the inter-racial
integrated school is less likely to
perceive the white teacher as hav-
ing the desire to help him attain
his goals, although he does see
the teacher as one who has the
abiilty to help him attain them, he
explained.
The study from which he took
his data is still in progress, and
further research should help clar-
ify the why behind the results.
PTP PRESENTS--The Professional Theatre Program will present
"A Man for All Seasons" at Hill Aud. on Friday, Feb. 14, one
week in advance of the date originally scheduled. Robert Harris,
in the title role, shows Paul Milikin a rare silver cup in a scene
from the third presentation of the Play of the Month Series.
ACADEMIC REVISION:
Group Considers Distribution Changes
Commit
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work may be added as the labora-
tory expands its administrative
and research structure.
Structural details of the rela-
tionship between the special edu-
cation program of the education
school and the laboratory have
not yet been determined. A re-
search program description set-
ting forth the internal and ex-
ternal administrative structure
will be determined about the end
of March, Prof. Melvyn Semmel
of the education school said.
"With the emphasis. on envir-
onmental control and the inter-
est in the adaptive behavior of the
retardate, the laboratory gives us
an opportunity to train both re-
search and service personnel in
special education," Prof. Semmel
added.
"We are willing and would com-
mit ourselves to direct involve-
ment in conducting research in a
number of areas. For example,
the core of our research program
might be studies of the role of
attention in retardates and the
interaction of retardates within
a classroom situation," he fur-
ther added.
However, the optimism for this
project "doesn't preclude an equal
interest in other programs" at the
University and in the school sys-
tems of the neighboring coun-
ties, Prof. Semmel said.
Behavorial scientists fell into
two basic groups regarding their
opinions on the degree of their
relationship with the medical pro-
fession. Some favor a close rela-
tionship, emphasizing the fact
that the great breakthroughs in
knowledge of mental retardation
have been made through medical
research.
Others favor a looser relation-
ship. They stress contact with
medicine to keep retardates heal-
thy and to provide case informa-
tion and say that the discoveries
of medical research affects only
the 15-20 per cent of retardates
whose conditions are organical-
ly originated.
"There is a thin line where
certain behavorial research ends
and where medical research be-
gins," Dale Brethower, research
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might be annoyed to find rela-
tively unprepared "free-lancers"
in their courses, he said.
Finally, the adjustments re-
quired by the trimester and the
last change in distribution re-
quirements-only two years ago-
make further reform hard to get
approved; the faculty may take a
"wait and see" attitude, Prof. Gra-
bar commented.
Reading Period
The idea of a one-week reading
period, replacing the last week of
classes, is "due to a feeling a lot
of people had" that the new calen-
dar, because it has "no interrup-
tions", puts students under greater
Elect Phillips
AIESEC Head
Kenneth Phillips, Grad, was
elected national president of the
Association Internationale for the
Exchange of Students in Econom-
ics and Commerce at the national
conference held in Ann Arbor last
Sunday.
AIESEC is an international stu-
'dent organization which arranges
the mutual exchange of jobs for
students throughout. the free
world.
Phillips will represent the Unit-
ed States at the international pol-
icy making commissions to be held
in Rome March 2-9.
pressure, which a free week before
finals might relieve, Prof. Grabar
said.
At present there is no reason
why an individual instructor or
department can't establish a read-
ing period, but it is seldom done,
he explained. The committee may
recommend that the standard lit-
erary college calendar be changed
to include a reading period-but
that it leave instructors and de-
partmen s free to deviate from it
by holding classes.
"All we can do is say it's our
feeling that this would be a good
thing. We can neither force it nor
prevent it, but we can suggest so-
lutions," Prof. Grabar commented.
System Changes
Changes in the credit-hour sys-
tem present roughly the same sit-
uation: the committee - and the
college's administrators-can rec-
cmmend policies, but final deci-
sions are made on the department-
al level.
The committee may suggest that
many advanced undergraduate
tee Plans Research Laboratory
courses, now three-credit, be
raiesd to four while retaining only
three hours of class per week. Stu-
dents wound earn the fourth credit
by undertaking additional work
.utside of class.
Too Many Courses
Prof. Gi abar cited a "feeling
that five courses a semester -
which students must take if their
courses are three-credit - are too
many, "that taking this many
forces students to neglect one or
to "skim through" all of them.
Also, in certain fields there is "a
lot more work students can do by
themselves," he said.
A survey of department chair-I
men drew a "very favorable" re-
action to the idea from social sci-
ences and humanities, while
natural science department chair-
men were "opposed," Prof. Grabar
reported. The committee is await-
ing the last few replies before
making a final recommendation,
he said.
associate, Office of Research Ad-
ministration, said.
Some of the suggestions from
conference participants noted the
need for facilities such as an
elaborate system of observation
c e n t e r s surrounding laboratory
areas, the use of a mobile labora-
tory housed in a trailer to per-
mit field experiments to be con-
ducted under controlled situations
and other suggestions.
Geis questioned, "Can quiet, un-
obtrusive observers replace secre-
Across
Campus
Prof. Lionel Laing of the politi-
cal science department will speak
on the "Political Image of Canada"
at 7:30 p.m. today in the Multipur-
pose Rm. of the UGLI.
Alcatraz ...
J. Campbell Bruce, journalist
and author, will speak on "Un-
covering the Scandal of Alcatraz"
at 3 p.m. today in Rackham Aud.
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which has been travelling
for two years.
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tive observation equipment like
one-way mirrors and closed cir-
cuit television?"
Brethower said he first thought
a mobile lab would be unnecessary
for research on a resident popula-
tion, but now has changed his
feelings because of discussion at
the conference.
The problem of privacy in the
performance of behavorial re-
search on the metal retardate will
be discussed in a future part of
the series.
The University planning com-
mission, headed by Prof. Lang,
consists of Brethower, Geis, Prof.
Semmel, Prof. Donald Smith of
the education school and Chief,
Reading Improvement Service;
Carl Semmelroth, assistant psy-
chologist, Reading Improvement
Service; Prof. William Stebbins
of the departments of psychology
and otorhinolaryngology (Kresge
Hearing Research Institute); Pro-
fessors Robert Isaacson and Elton
McNeil of the psychology depart-
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Fire Instructors' Training Conference
First Section-Civil Defense and Dis-
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Univ. Lectures ;n Journalism -- J.
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are offered to undergraduate women
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