Affect, curiosity, and socialization-relation were explored as potential mediators of the relationship between both state and trait affect and job performance. The cross-sectional sample consisted of 81 women and 152 men between the ages of 17 and 50 or older. The typical participant was a male Caucasian under the age of 40 with some college…

This paper is a critical analysis of the role of the Tanzanian education system in enhancing young children's awareness of economic aspects around them. The major factors the paper considers are: the poverty of the country; the prominence of the education system as a socializing agent for children; the aim of early education in Tanzania; and young…

Explores a neglected area of reference group theory and research: the relationship between assimilation processes and comparative reference group behavior; data were obtained by means of anonymous questionnaires administered to a relatively homogeneous group of Chinese American high school and college students living in Boston. (Author/JM)

Student outlined his view of the community college and its effect on his life. (RK)

The recent reforms exemplified by the restructuring of the Humbolt University, Berlin, and described in this article are the result of national goals to unify the educational system and gear it to the needs of the people and are the third in a series of reforms begun in 1945. (JH)

Author gives examples of how widespread the tendency has become to politicize all of life, and why it seems unfortunate to view all things in such terms. (Author/RK)

Author provides a short account of the origins and development of social education in Japan. (Author/RK)

The principle task of the political information session, an important form of communist indoctrination in elementary and secondary grades, is to help pupils assimilate and gain a correct understanding of world events and political issues. Newspaper reading, supervised by a teacher, is the basic activity. (KM)

Investigation focused on the conceptual modification of professional and bureaucratic role conceptions which accompanies passage from education student to public school teacher. (Authors)

The results of both studies indicated that harsh'' parental practices predict subsequent social desirability responding. (Authors)

This report summarizes the evolution of family intervention procedures and considers some of the primary assumptions made within the social learning framework about the determinants of agression and the determinants of behavior change within the family system. (Author/RK)

Argues that the traditional black church appears latently able and well-placed to complement the effort of the black family to prepare its young children to be black and proud in a white-dominated society. (Author/JM)

Discusses women's studies, the growing expansion of women's movement, and sex role stereotypes as they affect teachers. (RK)