Six hundred preadolescents, half from kibbutzin and half from classrooms in Tel Aviv, were asked to describe the frequency of certain socializing behaviors of their parents, peers, teachers, and caregivers. Implications for personality development are discussed. (ST)

Papers delivered at the Scientific Conference of Pedagogical Scholars of Socialist Countries, 1971, deal with the incorporation of current scientific and technological subject matter into school curricula and include a survey of curricula reforms and curricular developments in natural science, mathematics, social and political education, and…

Considered current attitudes toward education and how teachers fit into the picture. (RK)

Three professionals in the field respond to four timely questions regarding counseling with children from culturally different settings. Each has had a long-term interest in elementary school counseling and each represents a minority group. (Author)

This study suggests that, given the way public schools are presently organized, teacher styles seem to make very little difference in the degree to which the traditional values of work, time, authority, order, and perhaps achievement are emphasized. One can infer that children attending public school, in whatever permutation, will find that…

After describing a social learning formulation of the male alcoholic's marriage, this paper reviews the few studies of behavioral marital therapy (BMT) for alcoholics and their wives. Although none of these studies are as rigorous as one might wish and many of them are merely case studies, a review of the literature shows that behavioral marital…

This report explores the acculturation of Korean residents; both Korean families and Korean American families who reside in an academic community (Athens, Georgia) and an urban community (Atlanta, Georgia). The study is based on the view that Korean residents in the United States are a distinctive subgroup that has not yet been studied in terms of…

This essay provides an analytic development of a philosophy of rhetoric which focuses its concern on social reality. According to this philosophy, the activity of the human mind invents symbolic constructions of reality. Primary socialization is interpreted as a rhetorical process which tends to maintain prevailing reality constructions.…

Traces history of early childhood education from the fifteenth century to the present, stressing divergent aims and practices in programs for American children of different races and economic classes. Documents current trends and issues in the education of black children. (BRT)

Sketches a Russian lesson at Grade 9 on the Soviet hero Mikhail Devyatyev. Guidance on method, using teaching aids (blackboard pictures and filmstrips), is included. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Based on an experimental classroom situation, a simulation and its results in thought control or brainwashing was conducted in teaching about comparative governments. (JR)

Analysis of comparison between parochial and public school administrators shows that they basically share common work values. (ND)

This research studied sex differences and age trends in the relationship of occupational preferences and aversions and occupational prestige. The relationships between preference and prestige were positive and stronger for the males than for the females. Males learn to prefer prestigious occupations; females learn to avoid them. (Author)

Sex differences in the behavior of infants may have the potential for eliciting differential treatment from adults, regardless of whether or not adults consciously intend to encourage sex-differentiated behavior. The role of biologically-based sex differences in partially determining cognitive development is discussed. Availability information is…

This paper addresses the question, how does the structure of elementary and secondary schools direct women into jobs traditionally held by females? For availability information, see SO 504 073. (Author/RM)