In kindergarten, students learn the symbols of the alphabet and numeric symbols. This unit is designed to help students understand what patriotic symbols are and that the nation and the state have symbols and icons to represent thoughts, feelings, emotions, and physical objects. Exposure to different national and state symbols helps students…

Describes the psychosocial aspects of the past and the present living situation for today's elderly Chinese and Japanese Americans; many values to which first-generation Asian Americans were for maintaining adequate life satisfaction during the later years. (Author/JM)

Argues that the compression of poverty and resultant weakening of local relationships in the ghetto, combined with a widespread involvement with television and other mass media, created an orientation toward a larger symbolic black community, and transformed ghetto residents into black revolutionaries. (SF)

Argues that black psychologists must play a key role in changing attitudes and behavior if minorities are to succeed in the process of "revolutionizing" the system: black people must get themselves psychologically together, then teach their chaldren how to maintain the mental edge. (Author/JM)

Summarizes and assesses some recent observations on youth culture as a factor in social change and points to the need for a systematic analysis of the inter-relations of social change and new generations. (Author/SF)

This article examines educational policy as it relates to the political socialization of children and the utilization of available research on the topic. (Editor)

The performance of black youths in educational and psychological testing situations cannot be assessed adequately without consideration of their particular attitudes, perceptions, and behavioral patterns. The authors discuss Blacks' attitudes toward whites, systems of time allocations, expressions of identity, attitudes toward learning,…

Presents the results of the application of the analysis of the social assimilation of immigrants to the processes whereby beginning teachers transfer their membership from the university student subculture to the professional secondary teacher subculture. Extends the social assimilation framework from the study of immigrants to the general field…

A program for placement of retarded children in foster homes has proven effective in the development of socialization skills for the first three children involved. (ST)

A 10 percent random sample survey which elicited the political attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, as well as the social backgrounds, of students at the University of Chicago, in 1970, produced data indicating that there is very little direct effect on activism by social background. (Author/JM)

Examined the nature of teacher responses to preschoolers' problem and preacademic behavior as a function of sex. Teachers generally responded more frequently to boys. (ST)

A series of social interaction situations representing the four emotions of happy, afraid, sad, and angry were administered to 288 American children and 288 Chinese children. (Editor)

Considers the particular problems that Latin America culture faces in its attempts to indoctrinate its youth with political values. (RK)

Article presents a critical position on education as a necessity for life. (RK)