This guide is intended to help consumer and provider organizations develop programs to find and assimilate individuals with disabilities. The guide has five sections. Section 1 overviews the components of an effective outreach plan including timelines, a calendar of events, the media, success factors, problem prevention, and budgeting. Section 2…

The study reported in this paper investigated the type and level of co-worker involvement reported by employment specialists who placed 264 Illinois supported employees individually, in groups, or in mobile work crews, and also investigated the relation of level of disability to type of placement. The study found that co-workers associate with…

An important task for children is to acquire their culture's rules for emotional display. Accurate knowledge of display rules prescribing, for example, safe targets for anger or indelicate situations for excitement helps regulate expressive behavior and mediate the impact of emotional expression on the self and others. In this study, children's…

This report is a synopsis of a study that dealt with the dominant problem in Yugoslavian society, namely the phenomenon of social and economic crisis, and with the role of adult education within the disintegration processes. In addition to an introduction, the report consists of five sections concerning the following issues: (1) the country in a…

Analysis of information on Soviet Jewish immigration to the United States reveals the following: (1) the strongest motivation for emigration was anti-semitism, followed by a desire to secure one's children's future, opposition to or dissatisfaction with the political and economic system, the desire to join one's family, and the belief that there…

Changing from a non-profit foundation to a for-profit corporation, "Ms." magazine recently passed through a transitional phase, transforming its image to attract more advertisers. Four issues published after the fifteenth anniversary issue, when the new image was introduced, illumine both the hegemony of patriarchal capitalism and the…

Eight definitions of integration were examined across sex, race, political preference, religious service attendance, and socioeconomic status for 449 graduating high school seniors. Generally, these students chose definitions of integration based on the idealistic principle of free association of people of different races and the open acceptance…

Educational policy, which did not really exist in the United States on a national level until the 1950s, might better be termed social-educational policy. Teachers are expected to be the agents of social change, achieving in the classroom such objectives as racial integration, general use of the national language, the memorization by students of…

The problem of physical disability is growing as modern technology rises due to a combination of increased injury rates and improved medical techniques, resulting in a rapidly growing number of surviving disabled persons. Despite the increasing incidence of disability, unnecessary physical barriers which exist throughout our society prevent…

In the summer of 1961 migrant children took part in an experimental education program held in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. The unique factor in this program was the utilization of local school children as catalytic agents in the classrooms. The migrant children were given 2 four-week programs which ran concurrently with the general 8-week summer…

When categorized into one of two groups, subjects preferred information indicating ingroup similarity and outgroup dissimilarity. When categorized into a single group, subjects preferred maximum information about others regardless of content. No preference occurred when subjects were not categorized into a group. Thus, preferred information…

The author examines the assumptions and implications of the New Pluralism: the current movement to emphasize ethnic heritage and identity at the expense of assimilation. (SJL)

In 1953, William O. Stanley wrote the prominent social reconstructionist treatise, "Education and Social Integration." Fennell argues that Stanley was too optimistic, and states that democratic reconstruction will occur only if the very commitment that Stanley claims to exist is made a primary goal of political education. (Editor/RK)

Hawaiian-Japanese, Japanese, and Australian subjects were presented with a slide depicting either a Japanese or a Caucasian couple, and asked to describe three ways in which the two persons in the picture were similar. (Author)

Dimensions of black idenity, alienation, and contemporary attitudes of black students on the predominantly white campus are appraised. The implications of this are considered in relationship to the predisposition for hypertension in a significant percentage of black people. (Author)