Article examines the impact of a number of socio-political variables and the political environment -- the national political opinion climate -- on the party choice of university students using data from 1,006 questionnaires completed by first year University of New Brunswick students. (Author)

Studies conducted among the Kpelle of north central Liberia whose present cultural milieu offers unique possibilities for studying the role of particular experiential factors, particularly education, on the development of paradigmatic response. (Authors)

The data indicate a negative relationship between illusion susceptibility and education. This supports the sophistication hypothesis suggested by Segall, Campbell, and Herskovits. (DB)

The inner city counselor is expected to enter into his role understanding students and their culture, as well as the process of social change. It is suggested that counselor education should place potential counselors in public school settings working in teams with practicing counselors, providing relevant experience for future counselors and…

Because of the universities' central role in producing, storing, and transmitting knowledge, they are becoming increasingly more engaged in the governmental-political arenas. (JH)

Reports findings of a study investigating the attitudes of adults over 65 years of age toward children under the age of 11. Questions focused on adults' feelings about, knowledge of, and activities with children. Implications for program development are briefly discussed. (RH)

A questionnaire is described whose aim was to determine students' reactions to individual course topics in terms of: the extent to which they had grasped them; those on which they had spent the most time; those on which they had wished for more help; and their familiarity with them. (Author/MLW)

Maintains that at the basis of any philosophical discussion of the curriculum is the question whether there is any overriding objective toward which schooling should strive. Identifies various qualities which can be inculcated in students to increase wisdom and to contribute to human development. (DB)

Discusses the nature of wisdom and its function in the developmental process and how it differs from cognitive ability. Compares these two constructs with respect to the domains of behavior they represent, the operational tasks used to assess them, and the relationship of logic and time in their development. (Author)

Enumerates the issues which are at the core of the debate over the New Sociology of Education--the nature of the epistemological foundation, the adequacy of phenomenology as a basis for structural analysis, the stratification of knowledge and the power of elites in determining curriculum, and the nature of the political action implied. For journal…

The theories of Skemp regarding two forms of understanding in mathematics, called relational and instrumental, are discussed. (MP)

Summarizes a study in which 83 social studies educators in Virginia were given a 45-item questionnaire to determine differences as to the purpose, method, and content of social studies education. Results indicated general confusion among social studies educators regarding these issues. Implications of these findings are discussed. (Author/DB)

A nonequivalent control group design was used to assess effects of a law-related education (LRE) program on elementary school children's attitudes toward the law. Results indicated that knowledge gained about the law did not necessarily correlate positively with more favorable attitudes toward the law. (Author/DB)

Describes the development of a criterion-referenced instrument for assessing nutrition knowledge of potential nutrition educators. Discusses results which demonstrate that the instrument discriminates between groups of professionals who are trained in nutrition and those who are not. (CS)