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Merrell, Kenneth W.; Merz, Judi M. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1992
This study compared regular education teacher evaluations of the social competence of elementary children with learning disabilities (n=68) receiving services in either traditional "pull out" models or in "integrated" programs. It found that service delivery model alone without any specific planned social-behavioral interventions did not have a…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Interpersonal Competence
Thompson, Barbara; And Others – 1991
This paper reports on a qualitative ethnographic research study on the inclusion of children with severe disabilities into a Montessori preschool program in Lawrence, Kansas. The program has served 20 children with disabilities since its inception in 1986. The program's emergent model involves a split program (utilizing a special education…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Ethnography, Inclusive Schools, Interaction
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Arcury, Thomas A.; And Others – Journal of Environmental Education, 1986
Reports on a study of a social theory that has the human-environment relationship at its core. Results indicate the ecological worldview has an independent influence on net environmental knowledge of other sociodemographic characteristics. Suggests the teaching of values as well as facts in environmental curricula. (TW)
Descriptors: Demography, Environmental Education, Global Approach, Models
Midlarsky, Elizabeth; Kahana, Eva – 1983
Research on helping behavior has focused on help to elderly individuals rather than help by elderly individuals. To investigate the determinants and consequences of helping by older adults, 117 adults, from five Detroit senior citizen residences, with a mean age of 75.6 (67 percent female) completed a personal/demographic questionnaire, including…
Descriptors: Altruism, Coping, Helping Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship
Foster, Susan; DeCaro, Patricia Mudgett – 1990
Findings are presented from a study of social interactions between hearing-impaired and hearing college students living on one floor of a mainstreamed residence hall at the Rochester (New York) Institute of Technology, home of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Twelve ethnographic observations were completed, and interviews were…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, College Housing, College Students, Dormitories