Presents findings on sex-role stereotyping in five-year-olds. White children gave more stereotyped responses than did black children, and their stereotyping increased as parent educational level increased. The latter trend was not evidenced in black children, and no significant differences in stereotyping were noted between the sexes. (KH)

Explored community parental surrogates and their role for adolescents. The rabbi/tutor and coach/umpire help resolve oedipal issues and promote the establishment of cohesive self. Clinical vignettes illustrate how de-idealization by proxy may aid detachment from childhood love-objects and allow healthy partial identification with the same-sex…

One hundred and seventy young people at four schools in Austria, France, Switzerland, and West Germany completed the unfinished sentence "The sort of person I would least like to be like..." The results of this continental survey are compared with an English survey, in which 820 15-year-olds at six schools completed the same test.…

Reviews the psychological literature pertaining to identification and relates it to the teaching situation. (FL)

Factors that help determine physicians' practice locations and specialties were listed by students and medical school faculty at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Students, while acknowledging the importance of clinical experiences, said faculty members had little influence on their specialty choices. (Author/MLW)

Children need to be educated about drugs at an early age. Parents can help by teaching their children to feel good about themselves and to develop and communicate a clear position about drugs. (DF)

A questionnaire study among college sophomores and seniors indicated that: (1) female students neither gravitate toward nor avoid female role models, while men prefer high status, powerful male models; and (2) female and male students were similar in the amount and nature of contact with models, mentoring performed by models, and modeling…

Four short articles discuss the training of those who will eventually own and operate their own businesses or have an opportunity to manage a business for others. They include facts, procedures, and concepts that will aid students in becoming effective members of the business community. (JOW)

Institutionalized retarded children were reinforced for imitating the same model or three different models. A posttest to assess levels of imitation was then conducted by a new model. Pretest-posttest comparisons indicated that imitation with new models was greater for children trained with multiple as opposed to single models. (Author)

This book is intended for teachers and parents who want to give their students and children inspiring models to imitate in developing positive character traits and attitudes. In the book are individuals from today (like Bill Cosby) or people in the past (like Abraham Lincoln) who will inspire children. In all, the book portrays 75 people of…

This paper explains one university's approach to explicit modeling of practice. It briefly outlines the university's conception of episteme and phronesis, then explores the university's views of explicit modeling, which is seen as operating concurrently at two levels. At one level, it is about teacher educators "doing" in their practice…

This digest discusses the formal and informal processes of moral character development through sport in light of the types of programs that have shown to improve moral character, sportsmanship, and fair play, noting that such efforts involve combined lifelong formal and informal educational processes with three interrelated dimensions: knowing,…

Parent involvement in school administration and in the classroom as a volunteer is viewed by a teacher in a non-public, parent cooperative, alternative school. (KM)

A pilot study was undertaken to assess behavioral differences between male and female teachers of young children. Observational and interview assessment techniques were used in 18 classrooms (pre-school through second grade). Results are discussed in terms of possible effects on children's sex-role experiences and self concept development. (DP)

Investigated the effects of social learning and symbolic interaction on adolescent self-esteem. Adolescents (N=368) and their parents completed measures of self-esteem, parental behavior and parental power. Results suggested adolescent self-esteem is more a function of social interaction and the reflected appraisals of others than a modeling of…