The authors offer group counseling experiences for separated and divorced people at the University of Idaho Counseling Center. The groups were named "transition groups" in recognition of changes involved in returning to single life while still adjusting to dissolution of former partnership. (Author)

The comparison in this article centers on a relatively neglected area in the politics of race relations, the development of national reservation systems in the U.S. and Canada. (Author)

Describes a program which provides opportunities for senior citizens to work with elementary school students of Shady Lane School. Information about the eight senior citizens involved, an evaluation of the program, recommendations and cautions for the future are included. (CM)

This study tests the hypothesis that ethnicity is more salient in people's self concepts in an ethnically mixed society than in a segregated one, and that in an integrated society, ethnicity is more salient in the self concepts of members of the minority group than the majority group. Subjects were elementary, junior high, and high school…

Responses to a 40-item questionnaire distributed to 50 mildly mentally retarded (MR) adults indicate that the majority possess accurate information about MR, hold realistic attitudes toward their own needs and abilities, and advocate community integration of the retarded. (Author/JG)

Comparison of two seating arrangements, free choice versus teacher assigned integrated seating, in a rural Alberta seventh grade social studies class which included five Native American students showed no differences for academic responding or assignment completion, increased participation in the integrated arrangement, and preference by the…

Examines the educational reconstruction attempted in Germany's Lutheran states in the sixteenth century. Describes the close collaboration of churchpersons and politicians in the Lutheran Reformation and discusses how schools were used as instruments of acculturation, intended to encourage young people to conform to approved patterns of…

Found a strong correlation between residential mobility rate and a measure of marital dissolution. Concluded that community size and marital dissolution correlated positively because of higher levels of residential mobility in large cities and urban areas than in small cities and rural areas. Found high residential mobility both an indicator and a…

In support of moral education, the authors propose that teaching morality to criminals is a necessary and economic facet of correctional education, especially to combat crime in general and recidivism specifically. The authors view the criminal's inability to make rational, moral judgments as a major cause of crime. (Author/CT)

Criticizes two alternative approaches to indigenism--integrationism and ethnic particularism or Pan Indianism--which have played significant roles in producing contemporary patterns of Native American thinking on the indigenous question. Also discusses the impact of Central American revolutionary movements on the Indian movement and the Indian…

Addresses a basic question: is the social assimilation of national-origin groups in the United States as limited as is generally assumed. (Author)

The influx of Cuban refugees following Castro's rise to power and the Bay of Pigs invasion is described. Their settlement in southern Florida was aided by the educational community, particularly the schools and colleges of Miami, whose task will continue to be that of unifying the American and Cuban cultures. (LBH)

This report describes the best practices identified by eight projects in upstate New York funded to work towards increasing the number of individuals with developmental disabilities who serve in leadership roles on policy boards and planning committees of community agencies and organizations. Programs were based on the model developed by…

This publication reviews cross-disciplinary literature on education with the aim of informing the reader of the relation between educational governance and social inclusion/exclusion in policy and research. Various conceptual issues raised in the literature are examined first. Then, two problematics are considered to emphasize how the methods,…