Most subjects were satisfied with the environment provided by home and community. Mobility, health and social interaction were generally satisfactory. Intervention efforts should use an interdisciplinary approach that remains sensitive to the informal helping networks of small towns. (JAC)

Trip maps and trip boards are described, as are suggested destinations for class trips. The maps are used as multipurpose tools that any teacher can tailor to the needs of his or her own community and environmental studies and to the skills of children of any age. (Author/KC)

Presented are two visual aids, the Lesson Plan Tree and the Interdisciplinary Planning Wheel, which can serve as a framework and reference for student and teacher cooperative planning of an interdisciplinary studies unit. Both planning aids are illustrated with sample learning activities on pioneer life in Ohio. (SJL)

West Chester State College's pilot project to improve writing builds on writing skills established in the freshman English courses and extends these skills through writing practice and instruction in the humanities and other disciplines. Obstacles encountered in developing the program, program design, instructional techniques, and spinoff projects…

Explains specific writing strategies that teachers from other disciplines have used effectively in their classes. Describes the interdisciplinary project from which these strategies evolved. Focuses on designing writing assignments linked to course objectives and responding to student writing for its value as discovery learning. (RL)

The paper presents a brief history of the education of teachers of visually handicapped students and reviews recent trends and adaptations, such as the changing characteristics of the population of visually handicapped children and closer communication with parents. (Author/DB)

The conceptual and practical bases for development of a curriculum in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences that would prepare students for the primary care responsibilities of podiatric medical practice are presented, and specific instructional resources are suggested. (MSE)

Traces interdisciplinary collaboration on American Indian history from the establishment of the United States Indian Claims Commission by the Congress in 1946. Information is presented on concerns of ethnohistorians at various periods, objectives of social science research, subject matter of various conferences on American Indians, and political…

Helping students notice the geometric shapes and symbols around them and in the world's cultures is a fascinating way to make mathematics meaningful. (Editor/SJL)

With more rigorous and systematic integration of gerontological data with social and social psychological theory, more comprehensive explanations of life course phenomena would result. Moreover, the age variable would be considered by other sociologists as less of a control and more of a relevant variable in its own right. (Author)

Reviews conceptual models of the family. Striking correspondences are observed between the major sociological models (structure-functional, interactional-situational and family developmental) and the major clinical models (family structural, family process and multigenerational). The general paradigms underlying the models of both disciplines are…

The author calls for a radical revision and restructuring of doctoral programs in the humanities which have, he claims, surpassed in productivity the needs of our society and, in terms of their intellectual objectives, become mere exercises in sterile academic liturgy. (Author/SJL)

Issues involved in training bilingual-bicultural special educators are examined and the importance of an interdisciplinary approach is emphasized. (CL)

Results suggested that although inservice training appears to enable special service teams to increase the number of complete individualized education programs, both inservice training and performance feedback may be necessary to maintain increased team productivity during the school year. (Author)

Suggests that Dolores Durkin's findings that even elementary children are not receiving reading comprehension instruction indicate a need for more interdisciplinary interaction and more interschool cooperation. (MKM)