Five papers focus on issues of early intervention with young hearing impaired children. The papers were presented at a seminar in 1981 in Queensland, Australia. A. Hayes begins with "The Emergence of Interest in Social Interaction in Infancy," in which he considers the role of metaphors in influencing intervention research. D. Power and G. Elias…

The paper analyzes changes in conceptions of social interaction in infancy from a unidirectional process to a bidirectional one requiring dyadic analysis. Developments in the fields of ethology and comparative psychology are cited as are implications of early behaviorist research that pointed out the effects on the mother of the infant's behavior.…

This paper attempts to employ a model of occupational attainment proposed for the United States by Peter M. Blau and O. Dudley Duncan in order to test a series of propositions about the influence of societal development on the role of formal schooling in the occupational attainment process. (Author)

Investigated the separate and interactive effects of a model's affective response and anticipated consequences of third and fourth grade children's imitative and nonimitative play behaviors. (ED)

This study examines the effects of modeling influences upon social drinking behavior. Male college students classified as heavy social drinkers were assigned to one of six groups in a 3 x 2 factorial design. The results are discussed within a theoretical framework that emphasizes the social learning determinants of drinking behavior. (Author)

Individual and societal self education in the Third World, which consists of the realization of the actual cultural conditions in which life is lived, the possibilities of change, and the efforts needed for successful change, are necessary to transform techniques and institutions to suit man's aspirations and needs. (Author/DE)

This new edition has the same purpose as its predecessors; i.e., to provide language which can process information relating to all aspects of economic and social development, and, at the same time, give a common dimension to the more specific vocabularies corresponding to each of them. However, it differs from previous editions on five major…

The inception and development of the public library in Wisconsin as a tax-supported popular library governed by an autonomous appointed board is discussed in detail. Topics covered include the evolution of legislation for public libraries for Wisconsin and other states; the history of library associations, or social libraries, transplanted from…

This study investigated pregnant teenagers' knowledge about infant development during the period of their pregnancy. The sample consisted of 98 teenagers between 14 and 19 years old who were pregnant with their first child; all were planning to keep their babies. The group was approximately 50% black and 50% white, 50% middle class and 50% working…

THE AUTHOR BELIEVES THAT GROUP COUNSELING PROVIDES A UNIQUE METHODOLOGY AND A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR SOCIAL LEARNING. A GUIDE TO THIS APPROACH IS PRESENTED. DEVELOPMENTAL GROUP COUNSELING IS SEEN AS PART OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS. THIS APPROACH HELPS CHILDREN FACE CHANGES AS THEY OCCUR WITHIN THE CHILD AND THE WORLD. EMPHASIS IS PLACED UPON…

This study investigated social intelligence in relation to individuals coping with other persons. In terms of structure of intellect theory, the first of these two areas includes six behavioral cognition abilities, one for each kind of product or mental construct of information. The second includes six behavioral divergent production abilities,…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 7. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies; Europe and the Soviet Union. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into three subunits--physical geography, early history, and social development. The central portion of each subunit is laid out in three columns, one each for topics, activities, and materials. The guide…

The recent (1964) Wolf Management Engineering Company survey made another thorough study of developmental book activities in Turkey unnecessary. Therefore, less than one week was spent on this 1966 study to: (1) determine the extent to which the recommendations of the earlier study had been implemented, (2) collect data regarding libraries (an…

This study examined the relation between exploratory behavior and (1) the experimenter-child relationship, and (2) teacher ratings of dependency and autonomous achievement striving. Subjects were 34 girls and 38 boys randomly selected from two prekindergartens. Experimental conditions consisted of two levels of pre-experimental social interaction…