Explored attitudes toward the elderly of nursing personnel (N=101) employed in long-term care settings. Also investigated the impact of an experiential education program on the attitudes of nursing personnel providing daily care for the aged. Results tend to contradict several popularly held beliefs. (Author/ABB)

The original report is available as ED 040 154. (RT)

Attempted to improve attitudes of college students toward various groups of special needs children through the use of a cognitive-experiential module. Treatment significantly reduced negative evaluations regarding ratings of physically handicapped, emotionally disturbed, and normal children and approached significance for retarded children.…

Ways of improving recreational services to handicapped people are suggested with the aim of broadening their interests and horizons. (JD)

Contends that hopeful attitudes about learning for high-risk students can be rediscovered when students believe they are competent; tasks are not too easy; subjects are important to students; students are involved in learning; teachers demonstrate love of subjects; students perceive activities/goals as real; lessons are fun; students feel welcome;…

Assessed university students' attitudes toward rape and rape mythology and measured impact on these attitudes following exposure to acquaintance rape education program. Findings from 821 students revealed that women readily changed rape supportive attitudes, whereas men were resistant to date rape education program. Findings suggest need for new…

Negative attitudes students bring to class can obstruct teaching and learning. These attitudes can be traced to ideas of selfism advanced by modern philosophers. Discusses why students are not learning, examining sources of opposing values and how to recognize obstructive attitudes. Presents suggestions for handling negative attitudes that…

A three-year study of student attitudes, underway during the Cambodian incursion and the Kent State University and Jackson State College shootings, picked up a change, pervasive, if temporary, in attitudes responsive to those events and compared them with attitudes measured a year before and after. (JH)

Paper sponsored by a grant from the Wisconsin Association for Mental Health.

This research study was designed to determine the effect of exposure to cultural-social-economic diversity on selected attitudes of elementary school teachers by investigating the effects on teacher tolerance and optimism of exposure to 1) the usual classroom situation and 2) an inservice training program. The research was conducted as a field…

Traces the denigration of discursive prose back through the "New Criticism" to Romanticism and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who saw poetry as special and separate from other rhetoric. Notes that discursive prose can be just as creative and interesting as poetry. Urges composition teachers to shift their point of view accordingly. (RL)

Describes an intergenerational, interdisciplinary program for older adults and middle school students. Reviews program goals and benefits to both groups. (ABB)