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How the processes of group interaction combine to help or hinder cognitive and affective learning in the classroom is discussed. Numerous concepts about interaction in the classroom along with the available research on those concepts expressed in practical terms are presented. Implications for teachers are emphasized. The book is designed to be used by preservice teachers in their curriculum, instruction, or educational psychology courses and by experienced teachers in in-service training sessions. Chapter one lays the groundwork for the rest of the book by offering a social psychological perspective on classroom group processes. Chapter two discusses an overview of group processes including its history, current social movements, the sequential stages of development, and the school organization. The topic of expectations is treated in chapter three. How expectations develop, teacher expectations and student performance, implications for teachers, and action ideas for change are examined. Leadership and attraction are the topics of chapters four and five respectively. Discussions of Lhe bases of influence, flexible leadership, and classroom liking patterns and their effects on academic performance are included. Chapters six, seven, eight, and nine deal with norms, communication, cohesiveness, and sequential stages of development. The book concludes with a chapter on school organization. (Author/RM)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert