This paper presents the findings from a study designed to determine the relationship of student racial prejudice to the classroom dimensions of student performance, feelings of personal adequacy, perceptions of classroom working conditions, and teacher influence in sixteen racially mixed classes. The techniques employed were paper-pencil…

A questionnaire formulated from sections of the Inventory on Family Life, prepared by the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, was administered to over two thousand high school students in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The questionnaire was designed to gather responses on a five point scale regarding stable and unstable family…

This study successively tests simple modeling, normative influence, and conditional positive modeling hypotheses about the working mother's effect on her daughter's work orientation. Four hypotheses are postulated and tested separately by race to examine possible racial differences. The most complex hypothesis is that if modeling is conditioned by…

Employing a standard anthropological field approach, this case study examines the impact of formal education upon an Alaskan Eskimo community and provides a record of the establishment and development of a small, rural school. Emphasis is placed on the change efforts exerted by people identified with the school and the reaction to these efforts by…

This bibliography, made up of approximately 350 entries concerned with many aspects of problem solving and concept formation in young children, has been designed for use by people primarily involved in experimental research in these areas of child development. Entries include experimental journal articles, conference papers, unpublished research…

Competencies or general life skills and understandings that a political sciences course attempts to promote in the student in a general education curriculum are examined. General education is described as a set of skills which help individuals exercise control over their own lives. These compentencies consist of the understandings that (1)…

In this paper, selected evidence on the effects of Japanese schools is presented. The author believes that Japan is one modern society where the schools have fostered individual and social development. The primary focus is on the effects for individuals in the area of cognitive skills, motivation, educational and occupational attainments, and…

The general purpose of this investigation is to assess the impact of one and two parent family structures upon the consonance and dissonance of children's attitudes toward authority figures in other institutions; i.e. teachers. A random sample of 200 seventh and eighth grade pupils drawn from two of five public junior high schools in a midwestern…

Mao Tse-Tung's view of education and society is based on the belief that the great masses of people are collectively rational. If the masses do not see what society as a whole objectively requires, however, the leaders must be patient and resort to education and explanation, or the requirements must be altered to meet the objections. By the mid…

In the planning phase of this ESEA Title III Project, a learning unit was developed to serve as an outline for the first draft of the model. The field-lab approach is stressed in the belief that the "real world" offers a unique learning opportunity, since it includes the "how" of living as well as the inquiry process of…

The general purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of education or common schooling upon the attitudes of high school students who are socialized in tribal societies and who belong to different sociocultural groups within the total society. The specific problem is to conceptualize the independent variables which can be considered to…

This is an examination of social science literature dealing with contemporary political and social change, and represents the point of departure for the civic education project reported in Volume I, ED 041 810. The chapters discuss: 1) four social types of man -- elite, private, alienated, and civic man; 2) three types of democracy, the history of…

The purpose of this 1967 study is to analyze patterns of political learning before and after adolescence. The hypothesis grew out of recent political science research. 297 fifth, eighth, and eleventh grade children and 205 of their parents were interviewed. (See Appendix A for questionnaires.) Some of the results are: 1) There is substantial…

Findings and recommendations of almost 8,000 people who contributed to the Illinois Committee for the 1970 White House Conference on Children and Youth are summarized according to: (1) Delivery of Services, in the areas of planning and development, coordination, manpower, and objectives, priorities, evaluations, and funding, (2) Youth's Role in…

This anthology introduces students of German to the life of the people of East Germany. The three-part text describes interrelated cultural and political activities which are characteristic of the republic. Part One explores basic communistic philosophy, "a new myth", particularly through commentary on Walter Ulbricht's "Universe,…