Over a 3-year period, the National Inclusive Camp Practices (NICP) project examined camp practices and youth outcomes at 14 resident camps and outdoor schools that fully integrate youth with disabilities into their programs. These outdoor programs were predominantly 1 week long. Data on camp practices and on 742 participating youth with and…

This study examined the ability of 56 children with mental retardation and 58 children (grades 1-5) without mental retardation to perform two key social cognitive processes: social perception (the encoding and interpretation of social cues) and the generation of strategies for resolving social conflicts. These processes were assessed as children…

By understanding why children engage in name calling and responding thoughtfully to such events, parents and teachers can help both the name caller and the victim to grow in their abilities to understand themselves and others. In their own social interactions, children mirror the negative evaluations they have observed. Left unchecked, such…

In this article author argued that there is, within the Montessori system, a definite notion of "social development". (Author/RK)

Comparison with others is a way cultures can again encounter the law, which from the emergence of sexuality, has made the genesis of life dependent on a relationship between two beings. (Author/GB)

From socialization theory a relationship is hypothesized between sex-saliency of family and peer group context and level of sexual activity. The hypothesis is confirmed in the case of family context, but the relationship is shown to be curvilinear in the case of the peer group. (Author)

Article reviews Kohlberg's stages of moral development as he traces moral reasoning from childhood to adulthood. (Author/RK)

Article investigates research studies on the relationships between different child rearing factors and the child's ability to adjust to social norms. (Author/RK)

Explores the role of the social development officer in England and relates this role to activities which suggest that a new profession, populated by social development officers, will soon emerge on the British new town scene. More specifically, this development may lend itself to a new American profession in urban development efforts. (Author)

Before long, the lines of demarcation between studies of cognitive development and studies of social development will have been blurred beyond distinction. Students will no longer identify themselves as studies of intellectual development or students of social development. (Author)

Either educators work to make education, schooling, and social reform one, or they function as agents of a vastly inequitable and repressive society. (Author)

A description of the program set up by the Northern States Power Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to prepare itself for increasing change in the social environment in which the company operates. (HB)

Because of their immediacy, natural occurring events and present experiences in the classroom are ideal vehicles for both subject-matter and social learning. This kind of social learning can be facilitated through use of process oriented class meetings,'' the fishbowl,'' feedback devices, force field analysis, analysis of likenesses and…

Academic progress and development of social skills by educable mentally retarded children who were integrated into regular classrooms were compared with the same factors in controls placed in self-contained classrooms. (Author)