A Behavioral Objectives Curriculum In Human Relations: A Commitment to Intentionality.

The article focuses on the significance of behavioral objectives curriculum in human relations in the U.S. to foster the exercise of free choice. The behavioral posture is associated with prediction and control over behavior. Nevertheless, there are only little considerations that have been given on the possible utilization of these techniques to help individual free himself and provide for self-direction. The author restricts his study within the bounds of a curriculum in human relations, with a behavioral frame of reference, whose primary objective is the development of teachers who can act freely and spontaneously with internationality. Internationality is best described behaviorally through the passive or active behavior of teachers. The curriculum of human relations described in this paper has a secondary objective, the direct instruction of teacher trainees in specific behaviors of human relations.