Example of Dialectic Application and Its Affect.
by
Dean Gotcher
One of the first (and major) training manuals for 'change agents,' Human Relations in Curriculum Change (explaining the procedure used to facilitate 'change' in all meetings, whether in the school system, in the workplace, in local or national government, or even in the church) shows how the father is manipulated into abdicating his authority in order to retain "peace and affirmation" in the home, in order that his daughter receive "peace and affirmation" from her peers at school—the issue (confrontation) being between the father and his daughter, i.e., her use of makeup and his rejection of it, the resolution being facilitated (mediated) by his wife, in favor of the daughters "feelings," seeking "group approval." (Kenneth Benne, Human Relations in Curriculum Change, What is Role-Playing, pgs. 223-241)
© Institution for Authority Research, Dean Gotcher 2018