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Campbell, Rex R.; Garkovich, Lorraine – Rural Sociology, 1984
Presents a collective behavior model for examining the population turnaround (urban to rural migration) of the 1960s/1970s as a specific form of mass movement. Specifies the value-added process that produced this particular episode at this particular point in social history. Explores factors influencing decline in turnaround migration. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Group Behavior, Migration Patterns, Models, Motivation

Smith, Elsie J. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
The reference group perspectives of 188 lower socioeconomic black high school seniors were found to be related to their career maturity. Students' post-high school plans (either work- or college-bound) and their views of the opportunity structure of America were related to both their reference group perspectives orientation and their career…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Environmental Influences, Group Behavior, High School Students
Chiang, Chia-Ling; Guo, Chorng-Jee – 1999
The purpose of this study was to find out how pupils reached agreement and handled disagreement in science group discourse. Fifth-grade students were observed in small groups and participated in face-to-face interviews. Pupils' methods of reaching agreement--including using social psychological means--and ways of addressing disagreement--including…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Cooperative Learning, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries

Frazer, Elizabeth – Oxford Review of Education, 1989
Compares a discussion of class and gender by English upper-class girls with girls from lower-class families. Found both shared a perception of the problems of girlhood; but unlike the students from the comprehensive schools, upper-class females were uncomfortable with feminist theory. Analyzes the differences as discursive. (NL)
Descriptors: Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Feminism
Gibbs, Graham; Eastcott, Diana – Simulation/Games for Learning, 1989
Describes a method for helping autonomous groups work effectively on problem solving without a facilitator. Application in a British part-time course for tutors working with adult learners is described; group dynamics are discussed; evaluation methods are explained; and detailed instructions for using this method are provided in the appendixes.…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Course Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Evening Programs

Dovidio, John F.; And Others – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1995
Examined how social appearance and affective factors can influence social categorization and intergroup bias. Positive affect increased the extent to which subjects formed inclusive group representations, anticipating that the members of two groups would feel like one. Subjects in dissimilarly dressed groups expected the members to feel less like…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Bias, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics

Miller, Judith E.; And Others – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 1993
Reports a survey of students' satisfaction in a cooperative learning college-level introductory biology course offered, with changes, over 3 years. The survey found that cognitive diversity increases group conflict and concluded that there can be no "perfect course" due to the diversity of cognitive styles found in any class. Using a…
Descriptors: Biology, Cognitive Style, College Instruction, College Students

DeRosier, Melissa E.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
Examined the interrelations of group contextual factors and the occurrence of aggressive behavior in 22 experimental play groups of 7- and 9-year-old African American boys. Found that negative affect, high aversion behavior, high activity level, low group cohesion, and competitiveness were related to the occurrence of aggressive behavior. (MDM)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Aggression, Blacks, Child Behavior

Kniveton, Bromley H. – British Educational Research Journal, 1990
Studies effects of three styles of seminar presentation on the group decision-making process and group dynamics of 126 mature management students. Finds that using a written presentation and offering ideas as guidance increased student participation in discussion and problem solving. Suggests that the briefing paper style tends to encourage…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Group Behavior, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Higher Education

Bennett, Tom R.; Flores, Margaret S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1998
This developmental and cultural study investigates the impact children's attributions and affects have on their willingness to help in achievement contexts. Findings support Weiner's (1980) attribution-emotion-action model, although interesting developmental and cultural differences were revealed. Classroom implications and directions for future…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, Chinese Americans

Roland, Catherine Buffalino; Neitzschman, Lynne – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1996
Teacher- or advisor-led growth groups are an integral part of the middle school concept. A training program is discussed, one designed to provide teachers with group facilitation skills to be used in an advisor-advisee program for group work in middle school. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Counseling Techniques, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Lais, Greg – Taproot, 2001
Suggestions for facilitating inclusion of people with mixed abilities in outdoor adventure programs focus on creating an atmosphere of trust, cooperation, and mutual respect through open lines of communication, patterns of inclusive decision making, valuing of efforts and nonphysical accomplishments, emphasis on group challenges and activities,…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Cooperation, Disabilities
McConaghy, Cathryn – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2005
In the formulation of new humanities--knowledge, truth and social action brought together in the defence of what makes us human in this place and time--there is also the need to identify the obstacles to honouring our humanity. This paper continues the task of critically examining contemporary forms of inhumanity, in this instance as perpetuated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Humanities, Barriers, Identification
Law, Bruce – Educational Horizons, 2005
Critical Friends Groups (CFGs) are vehicles for creating collective intentionality that reaches a shared end: increased opportunity for the disadvantaged to create equality of opportunity. Not that participating in CFGs is the only action educators can take to create moral schools; rather, moral schools reflect the beliefs, ends, and practices…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Values Education, Teacher Collaboration, Equal Education
Buttner, Christian – 1996
This report, the third annual study of primary program implementation, outlines case study observations of learning groups and of teachers relations to groups. The learning atmosphere of a learning group is determined by presence of conducive or disruptive elements, input of children, and relation of the group to the teacher, in addition to good…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Environment, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning