This publication presents papers from 13 nations that describe the integration of children with disabilities into early childhood education programs. The compilation of case studies will serve as a reference document for the International Consultation on Early Childhood Education and Special Educational Needs, organized by UNESCO in collaboration…

The non-traditional student, or adult learner, is making up the new majority in secondary education, creating several implications for community colleges. The average non-traditional student is an adult, age 25 or older, who has returned to school either full-time or part-time. The student must balance school with employment, family, and financial…

This paper examines the assumptions that a person's ethnic identity is equal to his/her national identity by looking at the stories of seven Korean American college students and their ethnic sense of self. It explores the lives and stories of these students as they refine what it means to be Korean American persons through social interactions with…

Now more than ever, there is a need to understand and respect diversity in the classroom--especially in drama and theater work where it is easy for students and teachers to act out unconscious biases. This book offers a pluralistic perspective for the field of educational drama and theater practice, demonstrating how educators can respectfully…

The main objectives of a Vilnius, Lithuania, seminar were to share experiences in curriculum reform to promote life skills for social inclusion. This was to be achieved through an exchange on principles, approaches and methodologies that inform processes of curriculum reform in life skills education. Most of the participants were senior education…

This report discusses the findings of a review of 35 articles on the perceptions of students with disabilities regarding student placement. Results of the review indicate students with special education needs vastly prefer general education classroom placement to any form of separateness. Students generally report reluctance about leaving the…

Observations of proxemic behavior of interacting pairs of first, third, and fifth grade children indicate that while subcultural differences in distance and axis are learned early in life, only axis remains as a possible communication barrier between blacks and whites in the later elementary years. (JB)

Discusses research concerning whether residents in a complex, heterogeneous urban setting have personal, close, dependent relationships, or are these relationships only for the homogeneous urban or more rural setting. (Author/JM)

Sensitivity to cultural differences, interest in a client's ethnic background, and understanding its meaning to him are important tools in therapy. (Author/DM)

The common school system in New York evolved from the free charity schools, rather than from the common pay schools. In first allocating public financial assistance, the City Common Council made a distinction between teachers hired on salary by the inhabitants of a defined area, and nonsalaried teachers competing on a free market. (Author/WM)

Focuses on the Philadelphia Project," which aims to use the school as a way of improving racial, religious, cultural, and ethnic relationships in the community, and which is conducted at three levels of education--elementary, junior high, and senior high. (RJ)

Analyzes the responses of 210 Hawaian Japanese and Caucasian respondents from seven different residential subsamples to questions regarding racial perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors. (JM)