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Goodell, Rita Nitzberg – 1982
Designed for use in conjunction with a handbook dealing with effective responses to the crime problem of older Americans, this instructor's guide contains information pertaining to organizing and conducting a course on preventing crimes against the elderly as well as a series of lesson plans. Various aspects of course structure are discussed,…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Programs, Consumer Protection, Course Descriptions
Martin, Larry G. – 1981
A study was conducted to identify psychosocial needs of Adult Basic Education (ABE)/Adult Secondary Education (ASE) students by using the Self-Description Questionnaire (SDQ). A second purpose was to test effectiveness of Achievement Motivation Training (AMT) as a technique to counterbalance the negative impact of these students' former…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
Gonzalez-Mena, Janet; Eyer, Dianne Widmeyer – 1980
Designed for caregivers who work with infants in day care centers, family day care programs, Home Start infant programs, and programs for the developmentally disabled, this book provides guidelines for establishing a respectful, responsive, and reciprocal relationship between the caregiver and the infant. Ten principles for promoting this kind of…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Classroom Environment
Kissick, Elena – 1978
This competency-based preservice home economics teacher education module on consumer aspects in planning meals is the third in a set of five modules on consumer education related to foods and nutrition. (This set is part of a larger series of sixty-seven modules on the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education [MATCHE]--see…
Descriptors: Answer Keys, Competency Based Teacher Education, Consumer Economics, Educational Objectives
Taylor, Joseph H. – 1968
A six-week biracial summer institute for school personnel and a follow-up one-day symposium were devoted to increasing understanding of problems accompanying desegregation, changes in race relations patterns, and ways of solving psychological-sociological problems posed by desegregation. Another concern was to develop acceptance and understanding…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Aspiration, Blacks, Conferences
Faust, Russell Weidner – 1976
An exploratory field study was conducted in 42 self-contained, elementary grade classrooms in 18 school buildings. Subjects were 1,030 fifth-grade students. The purpose of the study was to determine the range of physical environmental conditions in the classrooms; and how students' perceptions of the physical environment (1) describe the…
Descriptors: Acoustical Environment, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques
Wright Inst., Berkeley, CA. – 1971
The focus of a two-week summer institute for 77 Adult Basic Education (ABE) teachers, administrators, and counselors from the western United States, Hawaii, and Alaska was on the problems of the urban poor, with emphasis on the urban poor white. Major emphasis was placed on nonlearning problems of the urban poor. Problems examined were: (1) the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Counseling Effectiveness
Rodriguez, Armando – 1968
The educational picture of the Mexican American is seriously impaired by the lack of Mexican Americans in schools of higher education. The high school graduate has had his cultural values and language assailed by the dominant Anglo culture. Psychologically scarred, he is faced with other impediments to personal and educational achievement. He is…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Counseling, Culture Conflict, Dropouts
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Kates, R.W., Ed.; Wohlwill, J.F., Ed. – Journal of Social Issues, 1966
Architects, psychologists, geographers, and biologists discuss the impact of the physical environment on man, and his adaptation to it. Article titles are as follows--(1) Galloping Technology, A New Social Disease, (2) Stimulus and Symbol: The View from the Bridge, (3) The Physical Environment: A Problem for a Psychology of Stimulation, (4)…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Acoustical Environment, Architectural Programing, Behavioral Sciences
Morse, Philip S. – 1972
This study attempts to ascertain the extent to which the classrooms reflect a model of open education. The findings are based on an examination of five classrooms and a supplementary analysis of responses to a questionnaire administered to practitioners in 30 school districts. Each classroom is described in terms of the Rathbone model of open…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Environment, Cross Age Teaching, Discovery Learning
Pettitt, John M. – 2002
A study used the frameworks of Rogers (1977) and Giddens (1977, 1979, 1995) to study the experiences of 10 adult distance learners enrolled in one or both of two online undergraduate business management courses. Rogers proposed that, when viewed through perspectives on power relationships, freedom and choice suggest that power is not just a matter…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Business Administration Education, Computers
Rotenberg, Ken J., Ed.; Hymel, Shelley, Ed. – 1999
Despite the apparent universality of loneliness and its link to psychosocial maladjustment, research on loneliness has emerged rather recently in the history of psychology. This book brings together varied theories and lines of research on loneliness among children and adolescents to provide a source for future research. The chapters are: (1)…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Child Development
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Kunzweiler, Charles – Education, 1982
If real growth is not made in teacher attitude and training and in institutional structural change to enhance the quality of interaction between "mainstreamed" students and "normal" students, mainstreaming will fail. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Classroom Environment, Disabilities, Educational Change
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Toth, Sheree L.; Cicchetti, Dante – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
An attachment theory framework is applied toward understanding the emergence of depressive symptomatology and lower perceived competence in maltreated and nonmaltreated children. Confirmed hypotheses that maltreated children with nonoptimal patterns of relatedness show elevated depressive symptomatology and lower competence, whereas nonmaltreated…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Standards, Child Abuse
McKinney, David D., Ed.; And Others – 1995
A feasibility study regarding the training and information needs of preschool and day care administrators, staff, and teachers regarding HIV/AIDS was conducted. This study also examined the issues associated with the presence of HIV-positive children in preschool and day care settings and the need for designing a program to help preschools and day…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Child Health
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