Abstracts - Earli

curriculum. They call it family studies or issues between him and her but not sex education. Theteachers are threatened by the need to address explicitly intimate questions which will challengetheir religious dispositions. The Shut project is a means to revolutionize sex education with asystematic and creative e-learning system, supplying adolescents with basic sexual knowledgealongside the creation of a legitimate religious discourse of sexuality. This e-learning systemcultivates sexual literacy as it encourages adolescents to read more about it. Apart from its servingas the only address, the Shut program succeeds in constructing a sense of responsibility andaccountability among adolescents, and it tries to construct a process of sanctification of sexual life.Actually, the Shut service fills the educational void with an alternative effective landscape ofsexual education.Inter-cultural conflict resolution in groups of Arab and Jewish educational counselorsDaniela Kramer-Moore, Oranim Academic College, IsraelMichael Moore, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IsraelSocial stratification and the formation of subgroups are universal correlates of group behavior.Such processes take place in families, in various secondary groups, as well as in entire cultures andsocieties. One frequently observed form is a dichotomization of the social environment into Us vs.Them, through an exaggerated emphasis of the differences between these two subgroups. Variouscompeting hypotheses have been offered to explain these phenomena; some of them are drawnfrom social, clinical or family psychology, others lean on anthropological and biological axioms.Whatever their source, these potentially destructive processes serve as a major ground forinterpersonal conflict at both the micro and macro levels. Within the framework of a master degreeprogram in educational counselling, a year-long course (The Helping Interview graduateworkshop) was shared by Arab and Jewish Israelis. Through the consistent application ofprinciples drawn from Rogers humanistic approach, Seligman’s positive psychology and Kohut’sself psychology (such as empathy, self-knowledge, teamwork, tolerance, mutual respect), theinterpersonal dynamics within this group drastically changed throughout the year; these changeshave been evaluated by both pre-post attitude scales (also administered to a control group), and thecontinuous observation of both verbal and non-verbal behaviors. The two ethnic subgroups, distantand frequently hostile at the beginning of this course of study, merged into a cohesive unit by theend of the year.YOUNG LOOK: Values, taste and dressing habits of Hungarian secondary school pupils - reportabout a nationwide researchEmil Gaul, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, HungaryAndrea Kárpáti, Eötvös Lorand University of Sciences, HungaryAims Have a detailed picture about the taste and appearance of secondary school pupils, to give asolid basis for a children-based art and design education. Detect the number, and size of subculturaland cultural groups characterised by appearance existing at present in Hungary.Methodology The research has been run by questionnaires and illustrated questionnaires, so called‘stile-sheets’. More than the half of the sample were photographed. Data gained were statisticallyprocessed then characteristic figures were analyzed and conclusion was drawn. An expert groupmade the selection and typology of dresses onpictures. The project had a preparatory phase, andafter it the main research was executed. Findings The pilot project showed eight different groupsof young people. We found, that these groups are not sub-cultural, but they differ from each otherin consuming habits. We draw out the type of the main groups, characterised by the socioeconomicalbackground, and variants according to values, cultural preferences, and dressing– 233 –