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)

Results of this study demonstrate that a multiple-problem-focused workshop can be successful in dealing with a wide range of social assertion problems. (MM)

Positive social initiations by an age-peer were evaluated as an intervention for three isolate preschool children in training and generalization sessions. (Author)

The paper argues the position that, given different sensory equipment, and therefore a different data base, the congenitally blind child necessarily develops and organizes his perceptions of the world in an intrinsically different way from the sighted. (Author)

A prescriptive teaching approach, Structured Learning Training, which utilizes modeling, role playing, and social reinforcement in a group modality, was used to teach social skills to 10 mentally retarded young adults. (Author)

Summarizes different types of social motivation that have interested social psychologists within a developmental paradigm. Currently, cognition is a central aspect of motivational psychology. Individuals' motive patterns are seen to change over the life cycle. (Author/AV)

Socialization research over the past 25 years has been affected by changes in social practices and in scientists' conceptualizations of the nature of children. Socialization is presently viewed as a function of the family and of social institutions and public policies. It also considers the importance of biological functions in development and the…

A suggested approach to curing our massive social ills is a curriculum division of social problems into: (1) a study of the most significant of these problems (from subject matter and basic democratic principles' approaches); and (2) a problem-solving approach toward controversial issues about which both the public and experts disagree. (MJB)

Examines some of the conditions associated with dissolution of the friendship tie. Subjects were 232 boys and girls between the ages of eight and 15 at a summer camp. The hypothesis that reduction in social interaction would be associated with increased probability of dissolution was not conclusively supported. (Author/HMV)