The paper presents a brief history of the education of teachers of visually handicapped students and reviews recent trends and adaptations, such as the changing characteristics of the population of visually handicapped children and closer communication with parents. (Author/DB)

The conceptual and practical bases for development of a curriculum in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences that would prepare students for the primary care responsibilities of podiatric medical practice are presented, and specific instructional resources are suggested. (MSE)

Traces interdisciplinary collaboration on American Indian history from the establishment of the United States Indian Claims Commission by the Congress in 1946. Information is presented on concerns of ethnohistorians at various periods, objectives of social science research, subject matter of various conferences on American Indians, and political…

Helping students notice the geometric shapes and symbols around them and in the world's cultures is a fascinating way to make mathematics meaningful. (Editor/SJL)

With more rigorous and systematic integration of gerontological data with social and social psychological theory, more comprehensive explanations of life course phenomena would result. Moreover, the age variable would be considered by other sociologists as less of a control and more of a relevant variable in its own right. (Author)

Reviews conceptual models of the family. Striking correspondences are observed between the major sociological models (structure-functional, interactional-situational and family developmental) and the major clinical models (family structural, family process and multigenerational). The general paradigms underlying the models of both disciplines are…

The author calls for a radical revision and restructuring of doctoral programs in the humanities which have, he claims, surpassed in productivity the needs of our society and, in terms of their intellectual objectives, become mere exercises in sterile academic liturgy. (Author/SJL)

Issues involved in training bilingual-bicultural special educators are examined and the importance of an interdisciplinary approach is emphasized. (CL)

Results suggested that although inservice training appears to enable special service teams to increase the number of complete individualized education programs, both inservice training and performance feedback may be necessary to maintain increased team productivity during the school year. (Author)

Suggests that Dolores Durkin's findings that even elementary children are not receiving reading comprehension instruction indicate a need for more interdisciplinary interaction and more interschool cooperation. (MKM)

Aerospace education is eminently suited to provide a framework for multicultural education. Effective programs accommodating minorities' frames of reference to the rapidly developing disciplines of aerospace studies have been developed. (RE)

Louis Lehrman opened the Lehrman Institute in 1973 and has managed to attract the country's best-known scholars to its seminars and research projects. A biography of Lehrman, some past research fellows, and a description of the Institute are included. (MLW)

Suggests how to develop and direct learning activities of an interdisciplinary nature for immigrant students in high school social studies courses. Activities involve students in vocabulary development, class discussion, role playing, and exchange of ideas with students of other ethnic backgrounds. (Author/DB)

Thirty elementary school teachers and 30 pediatricians completed a questionnaire regarding frequency and definitiveness of 13 diagnostic techniques used in learning disabilities (LD) medical evaluations. (CL)

Rapprochement among competing methods and views of marital and family therapy constitutes a major creative challenge for the field in the 1980s. Although integrative efforts have begun, psychodynamic understanding of intimate relationships is necessary for continuation of integrative process growth. (Author/NRB)