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Hamilton, David W.; Torraco, Richard J. – Human Resource Development Review, 2013
Adults with limited education and skills--those who lack the education and skills needed for full participation in U.S. culture and economy--are increasing in numbers. However, the knowledge base addressing this population and their educational needs is fragmented across the literature of several disciplines. A comprehensive review and critique of…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Adult Basic Education, Labor Force Development, Basic Skills
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Stancliffe, Roger J.; Jones, Edwin; Mansell, Jim; Lowe, Kathy – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2008
Background: Active Support (AS) is an approach for promoting increased engagement in activities by people with intellectual disability (ID). Method: We critically reviewed the available research on AS, and added a commentary to help guide future research and practice. Results: Despite weaknesses in the research design of some studies, there is…
Descriptors: Research Design, Mental Retardation, Caseworker Approach, Individualized Programs
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Pijawka, K. David; And Others – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1988
Notes that deaths from natural and technological disasters are increasing in United States. Reviews key findings in areas of vulnerability to natural hazards, disaster behavior and risk perception, societal concern over technological hazard, and social-psychological effects of disasters. Calls for research examining the role of media and measuring…
Descriptors: Accidents, Death, Natural Disasters, Research and Development
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Kastenbaum, Robert – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1988
Illustrates current status of thanatological research by examining the most popular line of empirical investigation (death anxiety as assessed by self-report scales) and the most sweeping theoretical approach yet proposed (Freud's death instinct). Notes that the most popular vein of research and most spectacular theory have almost no relationship…
Descriptors: Death, Research and Development, Research Needs, Theories
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Schultz, Richard; Schlarb, Janet – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1988
Reviews literature on terminal patients and nature of their experiences during the time before their death by examining: (1) the number of persons each year who must confront their own death; (2) emotional responses of dying patients to their impending death; (3) interventions for the dying patient; and (4) areas for future research. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Coping, Death, Emotional Response, Incidence
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Padgett, Deborah K. – Social Work Research, 2002
This article briefly portrays the impact of the September 11 disaster on social work research in New York City and summarizes what lessons can be learned from the experience. Also describes what is known from earlier research on community disasters and offers suggestions for future research informed by the cumulative evidence from disaster…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Research and Development, Research Needs, Social Work
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Tuffrey-Wijne, Irene; Hogg, James; Curfs, Leopold – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
Background: As patterns of morbidity and mortality are changing, more people with intellectual disabilities develop cancer or other life-limiting illness. This paper reviews the literature around the need of people with intellectual disabilities for palliative care. Methods: A range of databases and the World Wide Web were searched for relevant…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Mental Retardation, Cancer, Internet
Cameron, Glen T.; Curtin, Patricia A. – 1995
In the mid-1980s, when early electronic newspapers failed to live up to their promise, industry analysts declared them dead as a mass medium. But just 10 years later, "E-papers" are once again receiving much media hype, although little academic research has been done on them. Academic literature, trade articles, online discussions, and…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Mass Media Role, Newspapers, Research and Development
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Iano, Richard P. – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1987
A rebuttal to three responses to an article opposing use of the natural science-technical model in special education research suggests that the responses demonstrate a continuing vitality of the positivist ideology critically opposed in the original article. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Ethnography, Ideology, Research and Development
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Daresh, John C.; LaPlant, James C. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1985
Although school administrators hold a key position in educational improvement, strategies designed to help in the development of their knowledge and skills have not been fully examined. A review of research on administrator inservice offers a research agenda that may be followed to expand the knowledge base on this issue. (DF)
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Improvement, Inservice Education, Management Development
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Cheng, Pui-wan – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1993
This article looks at the role of metacognition in various current theoretical conceptions of giftedness and reviews studies linking metacognition to giftedness. It is concluded that theoretical and research support exists for the importance of metacognition in giftedness but that major unresolved issues still persist and should be investigated.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Metacognition
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James, Dilmus D.; And Others – Social Science Quarterly, 1980
Reviews literature concerning questions confronting Third World countries in deciding to launch domestic programs of research and development. Concludes that the adoption of a domestic science and technology policy is not only an economic decision but also a highly political one involving the strategy of national development. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Political Issues, Research and Development Centers
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Poston, W. S. Carlos – Journal of Counseling and Development, 1990
Presents demographic information about biracial persons, reviews previous models of racial identity development, discusses their shortcomings when applied to biracial persons, and presents new model of racial identity development focusing on unique aspects of the experience of biracial individual in the United States. Presents counseling…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Individual Development, Models, Multiracial Persons
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Grant, Gordon – British Journal of Special Education, 1999
Reviews, from a British perspective, the literature on lifelong inclusive education for individuals with learning disabilities. The role of the family, community, and society in an inclusive educational culture is discussed. The paper urges more longitudinal studies, structured evaluation of inclusive educational developments, basic research on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusive Schools, Learning Disabilities, Lifelong Learning
Scottish Council for Research in Education. – 1985
This 1984-85 annual report from the Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE) contains lists of officers, members, principal officials and staff; the chairman's report for 1984-85; a summary of projects in tabular form and a series of brief reports on projects; a note on overseas counsultancies; a list of SCRE publications; a note on…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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