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Direct linkDavis, Donna M.; Thompson, Sue C. – Middle School Journal (J1), 2004
Fifty years after the "Brown" decision, it is timely to examine whether society has supported middle level educators in creating schools where young adolescents living in poor communities do indeed attend schools that are socially just, diverse, democratic, and culturally relevant. In this article, the authors explore the significance of race and…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Middle Schools, Desegregation Litigation, School Segregation
Covaleskie, John F. – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2006
In this article, John F. Covaleskie considers a threefold question: (1) what is the nature of the sort of liberty that enables one to live as a free person, but also bound by the requirements of democratic citizenship; (2) what is the nature of the virtues that make this sort of person possible; and (3) what is the nature of the educational…
Descriptors: Freedom, Discipline, Democratic Values, Values Education
Dubow, Eric F.; Huesmann, Rowell L.; Boxer, Paul; Pulkkinen, Lea; Kokko, Katja – Developmental Psychology, 2006
The authors examined the prediction of occupational attainment by age 40 from contextual and personal variables assessed during childhood and adolescence in 2 participant samples: (a) the Columbia County Longitudinal Study, a study of 856 third graders in a semirural county in New York State that began in 1960, and (b) the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Outcomes of Education, Prediction, Achievement
Heath, Douglas H. – 1994
"Schools of Hope" seeks to resurrect the historic, liberally educating vision of arete, or all-around human excellence, as the only proper and realistic goal for preparing today's students for their future. It is based on the assertion that only students who can think creatively will grow, mature mentally, and adapt. From this perspective, schools…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy
Block, Jack – 1993
This paper reports the results of an ongoing study of individuals' ego control and ego resiliency. The study began with 130 subjects in 1969 when the subjects were in nursery school. At the most recent assessment, 104 participants still remained. Ego control is defined as the degree and kind of control individuals exert over their impulses, and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Children, Developmental Psychology
van Aken, Marcel A. G. – 1996
This longitudinal study examined consistency and change in human personality. Rather than studying the consistency of individual differences over time, an approach which considers only the stability of a variable at the group level and ignores differences in stability at an individual level, this study used a person-centered approach to study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Children, Foreign Countries
Albee, George W. – 1996
Noting that the physical and mental growth of children are influenced by many environmental and familial factors, this paper explores improving the well being of children. The first part of the paper discusses child rearing, emphasizing three fundamental themes: creating an environment where children are born healthy and wanted; helping children…
Descriptors: Child Development, Coping, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
NASSP Curriculum Report, 1996
This report outlines a K-12 social justice curriculum combining interdisciplinary instruction, guided and broadly-based research, and teamwork with teachers and students. Students also have opportunities to develop contacts with the media and other agencies at many levels outside the school, to research and support personal viewpoints, to study…
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction
California State Univ., Los Angeles. National Dissemination and Assessment Center. – 1982
The booklet is part of a grade 10-12 social studies series produced for bilingual education, consisting of six major thematic modules with four to five booklets in each. The interdisciplinary modules are based on major ideas and designed to help students understand some major human problems and make sound, responsive decisions to improve their own…
Descriptors: Bilingual Instructional Materials, Decision Making, Glossaries, Interpersonal Communication
Whiteley, John M.; Yokota, Norma – 1988
This monograph reviews the impact of the freshman year and the four years of undergraduate study on a central dimension of personal development: the formation of character and its progression from late adolescence to young adulthood. A foreword by Nevitt Sanford places the discussion in the context of a general loss by American universities of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Consciousness Raising, Curriculum Development, Educational Planning
O'Loughlin, Dan – 1984
One factor consistently overlooked in the literature of both empirical research and treatment intervention strategies is the role of the father in the development and treatment of childhood disturbances. In declaring the mother-child relationship as the setting within which childhood disturbances occur, researchers assumed that the father was…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Child Development, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
Newburger, Craig Alan; Daniel, Arlie V. – 1985
A study examined the relationship between the personality constructs of self-concept and communication apprehension and the use of self-confrontation (self-viewing of videotaped speeches) as a potential self-concept enhancement strategy. The question of whether the constructs of self-concept and communication apprehension overlap was investigated…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research, Higher Education
Greenspan, Stanley I., Ed.; Pollock, George H., Ed. – 1981
The volumes that make up "The Course of Life" series represent original contributions from international scientists and clinicians who have produced much current knowledge about the phases of human personality development. The chapters in Volume III discuss adulthood from various perspectives. Contributions cover the continuum of human…
Descriptors: Adults, Aging (Individuals), Depression (Psychology), Developmental Stages
Evans, Ellis D. – 1981
Recent research about children's early personal-social learning and development is reviewed in relation to three basic psychological questions. The first concerns extent of stability or consistency in stylistic patterns of personal-social behavior across infancy, the preschool years, and the early school years. The second concerns current…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience, Emotional Development
NEISWORTH, JOHN T.; SMITH, ROBERT M. – 1965
RESEARCH CONCERNING SENSORY DEPRIVATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PERSONALITY VARIABLES AND SUBSEQUENT BEHAVIORAL AND COGNITIVE CHANGES IS REVIEWED. THREE LIMITATIONS OF THE CONGENITALLY BLIND ARE LISTED (1) RESTRICTION IN THE RANGE AND VARIETY OF EXPERIENCES, (2) DEFICITS IN THE ABILITY TO MOVE ABOUT, (3) DEFICITS IN THE CAPACITY TO CONTROL THE…
Descriptors: Blindness, Counselor Role, Creative Development, Creativity
