Since 85 out of every 100 women will be on their own at some time during their lives, society should prepare girls for careers with skills, fostering attitudes, accepting environments, and a sense of self-sufficiency. Ten suggestions are given for teachers to help girls identify goals and acquire needed skills, life purpose, and meaning.…

This paper explores the origins of tensions between families and schools and argues that one must learn to distinguish between positive and negative forms of dissonance. In addition, it looks at the special role of women as central figures in the socialization process. (Author/AM)

Discusses how children in the Soviet Union are influenced by their families' religious beliefs and their religious congregations. Presents guidelines for educators to follow as they supplant religious philosophy of children from sectarian families with understanding of the socialist system of social relations. (Author/DB)

Academic and skill content of elementary education in China are described. (MJB)

The authors discuss coping behaviors for nursing school teachers new to university faculties, stating that success is an unintended result of role socialization. Organizational constraints, goal conflicts, dealing with reality, the overload discovery syndrome, and improvement suggestions are included. (MF)

College student change on values, intellectual orientation, and personal development was analyzed in the context of a causal model. Research was based on logitudinal study of students in a large liberal arts college and a small, innovative, living-learning environment. College impact on students was mediated through human interaction with…

Gives a descriptive overview of salient features of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theories and research as they apply to educational institutions; the distinctive contributions he has made to the sociology of education are identified and criticized. (Author/RK)

Psycholinguistic literature discounts the role of three social learning variables: feedback or reinforcement, modeling or imitation, and contextual constraints on language. Social learning, function, and context in language acquisition have been underrepresented in favor of cognitive and structural factors, which are limited because they…

Considers the issue of educational disadvantage in relation to each sex, discusses the dehumanizing effect of sexist education on people in general, and outlines a new concept of humanness, totally divorced from our stereotyped notions of appropriate masculine and feminine behavior. (Author/AJM)

An analysis of data collected from a sample of 23 Navajo women educated in reservation schools and living with their families in an urban area from 1970 to 1972 which focuses on the effect of their schooling on their personal adjustment and their roles as mothers, and which finds that the educational experiences encountered in middle childhood…

This paper presents a typology of direct and vicarious achievement orientations relevant to adult problems. Direct and vicarious achievement patterns are related to sex role socialization and sex-linked occupational choice. Recommendations are developed for reevaluating and redesigning adult occupational and interpersonal roles which would take…

The present study investigated the effects on socially incompetent college students (N=20) of a group program that used social-learning theory and behavior-rehearsal techniques. Significant gains in social competence were shown. (Author)

Considered in this discourse are: normative commitment and collegial reinforcement of the professions; the functionalist tradition; reconciling what's practiced with what's preached; collegial socialization and control; and women and the practice of the professions. (LBH)

The article discusses social conditions which have led to a need for education about aging, home economics as the best area for this subject, a teaching technique contrasting stereotypes and facts about old age, learning activities, and a list of resource materials for teachers. (MF)

In the present study, candidate behavior was conceived as a function of the richness of the interpersonal repertoire brought to the situation of candidacy and of contextual properties of the situation itself. (Author/IRT)