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Eidelman, Steven M. – State Education Standard, 2013
When you speak with classroom teachers in general education settings about inclusive education, lack of training, and lack of administrative support are frequent commentaries. And when you review data from the U.S. Department of Education, it is clear that inclusion of students with disabilities in general education settings has yet to be fully…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Athletics, Social Integration, Inclusion
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Anczewska, Marta; Switaj, Piotr; Roszczynskamichta, Joanna; Chrostek, Anna; Charzynska, Katarzyna – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
Schizophrenia as mental illness is defined in terms of diagnostic criteria which do not include the full range of psychosocial difficulties that shape the lived experience of persons with this diagnosis and affect their quality of life. The biopsychosocial approach found in the World Health Organization's International Classification of…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Psychological Patterns, Biological Influences, Classification
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Murphy, Glynis – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
Arguably, the most important outcome measure for services to people with intellectual disabilities is quality of life. Quality of life has been defined in numerous ways and may consist of many aspects, including physical, material, and emotional well-being, as well as interpersonal relationships, personal development, self-determination, social…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Quality of Life, Behavior Problems, Social Integration
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Hughes, Michael – Social Forces, 2006
Research on quality of life in sociology is largely focused on a narrow range of dimensions including affect, happiness and satisfaction. It largely avoids a concern with the meanings that provide people with the purpose, significance, validity and coherence that are a basis of social relationships and social integration. Evidence is presented…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Quality of Life, Interpersonal Relationship, Psychological Patterns
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Collins, Julie A. – Religious Education, 1996
Maintains that interreligious learning takes place most beneficially among people who are reasonably secure in their own relationship with God and also are comfortable with the mystery of that relationship. Argues that people with little tolerance for mystery and ambiguity will become uncomfortable with other religious experiences. (MJP)
Descriptors: Catholics, Cultural Interrelationships, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology)
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Damji, Tasleem; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
Examines the effect of situational variations of ethnic identity and their relationship to measures of psychosocial adjustment. Among French Canadian university students, English-speaking students who identified strongly with their first language group but exhibited a high degree of inter-situational variation experienced more stress, depression,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Analysis of Variance, Cultural Interrelationships, Depression (Psychology)