Disadvantaged preschool children directed in the role-enactment of imaginary stories were found to be superior to control children (who did not engage in role playing) on several measures of social and cognitive development. Fantasy play training resulted in a higher incidence of spontaneous sociodramatic play, higher scores on an interpersonal…

The classroom behavior and academic achievement of 32 educable retarded children (EMR) with a mean age of 11.24 years were studied in two types of open classrooms, graded and multi-age, and compared to that in a special education class. The three different instructional environments were found to generate characteristically different patterns of…

This book of readings related to community development and citizen participation in Canada, and therefore, the material is almost exclusively Canadian. The seven sections of the book are as follows: The Ideology of Participation; Change and Intervention; Community Development and Learning: Concepts and Implications; Sharing Experiences; Relating…

The discussion of the contribution Australian universities might make in introducing computer technology to the developing countries draws upon over 20 years of experience with students from Southeast Asia. The results of several studies of the performances of these students both while in Australia and after returning to their own countries have…

This paper has been written as a contribution to the resolution 2458 adopted at the 23rd session of the United Nations General Assembly entitled "International Cooperation with a view to the use of computers and computations techniques for development." It is written with a view to the Latin American situation, with the hope that the…

A study was conducted to examine social behavior by one-year-old boys over the course of a three-month playgroup experience. The "clusters" chosen for examination consisted of temporary groups (often less than a minute) the toddlers formed to focus on a single activity. Socially directed behavior is defined here as vocalizing, laughing and…

Evidence is presented that argues for distinguishable, sequential stages in the structuring of political attitudes among students and that partially supports a developmental interpretation of political learning. (Author/AM)

Presented are the normal physical and psychosocial aspects of the process of adolescence and how they affect deaf adolescents. (BD)

This article presents a comparative case study of pupil role socialization in three elementary schools (public, Episcopal, and Catholic) serving a heterogeneous North American inner-city community. (Author)

Reviewed are the results of 17 studies of resource programs and their effects on the academic achievement and personal-social development of exceptional children. (Author/JYC)

The article focuses on six components (physical environment, psychological climate, curriculum, materials, assessment and evaluation, and teacher facilitation) necessary for successful affective education for learning disability students. (CL)

Discusses the relationship of the level of education and allocation of the labor force among Different geographic regions, sectors of the economy, and occupations within the Soviet Union. Stresses that educational planners should consider demographic processes when planning for the transition to universal secondary education. (Author/DB)

Fifty-one children who had spent their first 2-7 years in institutions, and who had been visited previously at the age of 4 1/2 years, were reassessed at the age of 8. Seven children had never left the institutions, the rest had been adopted, fostered, or restored to their biological parent. (JB)

Third grade children were taught to share by viewing videotapes of themselves and models in a situation involving sharing. (BD)