While many basal readers do portray characters reading, others could do more to provide children with role models. (DD)

Examines the way the writing activities of child writers are portrayed in novels by Louisa May Alcott, Carol Ryrie Brink, Eleanor Cameron, and Maud Hart Lovelace; notes that these characters establish excellent models for child writers. (ET)

In this presidential address to the 32nd Kappa Delta Pi convocation in April, 1980 the author challenges educators to model the ideals of justice, integrity, and intellectual excitement for their students. (SJL)

This study showed that for college students, both on-camera authority/model figures and dramatizations can be effective for promoting affective learning via televised instruction. It also confirmed the importance of considering interactions between presentation method, learning characteristics, and subject matter. (Author/JEG)

The child care worker in a group home, which is defined as a dwelling for foster children completely directed by a social agency or institution, meets conditions both similar to and different from those of his counterpart in an institutional setting. (MS)

Usable responses from 197 of 300 Australian managers indicated those who had mentors perceived more organizational justice than those who had not. Career, psychosocial, and role modeling functions of mentoring were significantly and positively related to perceptions of distributive and procedural justice. (SK)

The author suggests that a problem of today is not that college students are not learning values-- it's the values that they are learning. Argues that people live by example, not values, and that the discussion of values should focus more on how people grow up and how college can more effectively contribute to that process of becoming human. (GCP)

Discusses interpretations of a key Nietzschean concept, "Selbstuberwindung," translated as "self-overcoming," which challenges the concept of "self-mastery" or "self-control" found in traditional educational thought. Also discussed is Nietzsche's construction of images of self-overcoming individuals,…

Argues that adolescent females need role models who successfully meet the challenges of taking care of themselves. Discusses 12 books for adolescent readers, written by Lynn Hall, Vera and Bill Cleaver, and Cynthia Voigt, which portray young women as independent, self-reliant people with inner strength and the ability to make decisions and solve…

Teaching children "knowing that" something is right or wrong is probably worthless. Meaningful values education--knowing how--is best done by example, by parents and educators conducting themselves morally. (SK)

Discusses the lives of six women from different temporal periods who have made significant contributions to the biological sciences. (ZWH)

Data from 181 proteges were used to compare perceptions of mentoring in cross- and same-gender relationships. Mentor role perceptions were not influenced by mentor or protege gender. Cross-gender proteges were less likely to engage in social activities with mentors, and female proteges with female mentors were more likely to identify mentors as…

This editorial proposes that famous people in physics be immortalized as heroes through trading cards that present their pictures, personal backgrounds, and contributions to physics. Includes 18 cards for the first collection. (MDH)

Parents, schools, and the community no longer share equally in the teaching of youth. Extension after-school programs aid in school enrichment; nontraditional 4-H projects get youth involved in their communities; and traditional 4-H programs and project camps provide adult role models and subject knowledge for youth. (SK)

A two-phase study was conducted to assess influences on environmental sensitivity (ES) in Wisconsin high school students. Three categories of influences emerged from phase I: environmental, role model, and personality. The influence most frequently cited by students as most important was time spent outdoors. Develops a profile of environmentally…