Defines the concepts of simulation and creative drama within educational contexts and outlines six basic elements common to both concepts. Available from: Children's Theatre Review, American Theatre Association, 1029 Vermont Avenue, N.W. Suite 402, Washington, D.C. 20005. (MH)

Focuses on the home office and video teleconferencing as the basis for developing a social psychological perspective on the use of telecommunications as a travel substitute. (MH)

A total of 134 mothers and their newborn infants were studied in order to evaluate the relationship between neonatal characteristics and mother-infant interaction. (SB)

Given the conditions of choice, time, and distance, trainees' interview responses (N=54) reflected neither the influence of their philosophy of human nature nor the effects of client type. These findings are contrary to expectations. (Author)

The study with 18 children with Down Syndrome (DS), their mothers, and a control group replicated previous findings that mothers of DS children are more directive and identified qualitative differences in types of directives (e.g., mothers of DS children were more likely to request actions) suggesting differences in maternal interactive…

When performing a classification study, it is often useful to leave a residue of unclassified entities to be analyzed separately. Using an interactional paradigm, theoretical reasoning for this approach is outlined. A procedure--RESIDAN--for conducting a classification analysis using a residue is described, and empirical data are provided. (TJH)

The article reports on two effective peer intervention strategies for handicapped children with social deficits. In the first, nonhandicapped children are taught to use interaction promoting strategies and in the second, handicapped and nonhandicapped children are taught sociodramatic play scripts which encourage interaction during free play.(DB)

This study of 16 dyads of mothers and their children with a language age of 2-5 years found no significant differences between the interactional patterns of normal-hearing mothers and their normal-hearing children and of normal-hearing mothers and their children with mild to moderate hearing impairment. (Author/JDD)

Discusses the value of both objectivity and connection (among college students, between students and teachers, and between students and their work) in various ways of knowing. Explores the nature of connection via studies of women's development. Explains how pedagogy can create contexts for students to learn to use both objectivity and connection.…

Conversation analysis was used to investigate a conversational partner's strategies when assisting with the word searches of an aphasic person. Analysis of 38 authentic videotaped conversation sequences identified four conversation strategies systematically and collaboratively used: guessing, alternative guessing, completion, and closing…

This study examined the involvement of six children (ages 8 to 12) with specific language impairment (SLI) in a three-person cooperative group task with partners matched for either chronological age or language skills. Four of the children with SLI played very minor roles in the cooperative work within their triads with very limited verbal…

This paper traces the sophisticated negotiations to re-inscribe the authority of Nature when a school science experiment fails during the enactment of a highly rated science curriculum unit. Drawing on transcriptions from classroom videotapes, we identify and describe four primary patterns of interaction that characterize this process, arguing…

This study aims to translate tenets of social constructivism into practice via a scaffolded modality of learning. It is hypothesized that hermeneutical nature of passage interpretation could create "affordances", Van Lier's (2000) term, or "interactional opportunities" which are psycholinguistically and developmentally valuable…

While numerous publications signal the merits of collaborative research, few studies provide interpretive analyses of collaborative-research practices or collaborative relationships. Through this multiple case study design of collaborative-research teams, the authors attempt to provide such an analysis by focusing on the collaborative-research…