Study results suggest that role ideals and philosophical beliefs are systematically related to teachers' instructional preferences, that philosophical beliefs may influence teachers more than teacher educators generally recognize, and that teachers currently focus on basic skills issues in making many instructional decisions. Several implications…

The use of peer guidance to prevent misuse of the drug phencyclidine is suggested. (LH)

Two experiments studied five- to eight-year-old children's capacity to resist temptation as a function of observing a deviant model. (CM)

The effects of "good" and "poor" peer models on the task performance of 45 chronic schizophrenic males were investigated. The findings revealed that patients who viewed a good peer model did significantly better on a subsequent task then patients who viewed either a peer model or no model. (Editor)

The decline in students' writing skills is chronic rather than acute and is due to several factors: (1) little training is done in the teaching of writing; (2) little work in writing is done in the classroom due to class size; and (3) students often have no models to emulate. (MB)

Prime-time television dramas were analyzed to isolate counter-stereotypical sex-role portrayals, and children were surveyed to determine the impact of these portrayals on sex-role perceptions. The appeal of male and female television characters as role models was also tested. (LS)

Discussed are significant female contributors to scientific discovery. Fields of inquiry include astronomy, geology, meteorology, physics, chemistry, public health and home economics. The importance of appropriate role models for female students in science as teachers and scientists is stressed. (CS)

This article describes and evaluates the development of a rehabilitation training model (RTM) that has been used in the Department of Rehabilitation Counseling at Boston University for the past three years. (Author)

Proposes that teachers look to current and classic literature as a way to motivate adolescent boys to read and to provide them with positive male role models. Defines 10 male archetypes, and lists examples of literature that illustrate each archetype. (SR)

After 20 years of working with "reluctant" readers of all ages, the author believes a teacher's own literacy is her best resource, best strategy, and only hope. Teachers with wide-ranging reading tastes can honor children's reading preferences while nudging them to try more challenging books. Encouraging a child to read Nancy Drew stories without…

Formulates a systematic and integrated account of religion's constructive influence in the lives of U.S. youth, suggesting nine key factors (moral directives, spiritual experiences, role models, community and leadership skills, coping skills, cultural capital, social capital, network closure, and extra-community links) that cluster around three…

Asserts that with heroes, people confront crisis and terror; experiencing the extraordinary and expanding their notion of what it means to be human. Once central in schooling, the study of heroes helped students find the good to be imitated and the evil to be avoided. Suggests that while the notion of heroes has changed since then, the need for…

Contends the faculty adviser for student publications holds one of the most sensitive positions in school. Explains why the following attributes are important in an advisor: understands the peripheral aspects of the job; communicates effectively; promotes teamwork; models how to accept criticism; promotes intrinsic motivation; stirs students to…

A study of the attitudes of British student teachers (118 male, 92 female) toward gender indicated that male student teachers of 7-11 year-olds were more likely to be concerned about and supportive of traditional images of masculinity than were males training to teach 3-8 year-olds. (Contains 33 references.) (SK)