Educators need to recapture the historical role of schools to pass on to the young the community's best values. The current status of moral education in schools, the consequences of the present conditions, needed changes, and implications for pre-service and inservice teacher education are discussed. (IAH)

Considers two issues in cultivation research. Examines relationships between television exposure and positive statements of social perceptions, and tests a model of instrumental media uses and effects. Finds television exposure to be unrelated to social attitudes, while program selectivity is related to all social attitudes except interpersonal…

Coincidental teaching involves training parents to provide social skills instruction to their exceptional children in home and community environments. Teachers explain to parents the techniques of prompting and praising, help parents schedule times during their daily routine to carry out coincidental teaching, and provide lesson plans. (JDD)

Using the Paternal Involvement in Childcare Index, examined father involvement in caregiving and the socialization of preschool-age children in 40 Thai and 24 American families. American fathers were more likely than Thai fathers to be involved in child care and the socialization of their children. (MDM)

As commissioner of Indian affairs, John Collier promoted economic development on reservations, supported self-determination, and brought Indian peoples into mainstream federal aid programs (the Indian New Deal). A review of his and his critics' writings focuses on his views about Indian culture, community, socialization, and democracy, and the…

The realities of child development defy efforts to categorize children's abilities and attainments within the conventional graded structure. Pupil readiness varies, and children progress in all subjects at different rates. The development of multiage or cross-age groupings, sometimes coordinated with youngsters in tutoring programs, has produced…

Interviews with six women from working class backgrounds, who had succeeded in higher education, identified common issues in growing up gifted and talented in the working class, the dearth of role models and mentors, the loss of connection with family and friends, and a sense of impostership. (DB)

Argues that research's production of knowledge is not set apart from society, but is embedded in it. The article calls for efforts to uncover the ways in which psychological knowledge is shaped by ongoing societal struggles and cultural politics. (GR)

Tested a triple-interaction hypothesis predicting problems of adolescent adjustment. Data obtained from Japanese 14-year-olds, parents, and teachers provided measures of parent-adolescent cohesion, parent socialization values, and 4 personality clusters. Found that lowest Resilient Impulse Control and Interpersonal Warmth scores were obtained for…

Reports results of a study of the relationship of mood regulation expectancies with depressive symptoms and coping ability among 96 adults aged 65 years or older from non-nursing home residential communities and organizations. Relations of hassles and expectancies with coping responses were weaker than those found previously in younger samples.…

Defines multicultural education, discusses camp's role in socialization, and addresses ways to use camp as a platform for teaching about diversity. Discusses the relationship between multiculturalism, environmental education, and outdoor education. Suggests that organized camping should promote a deeper connection among races and ethnic groups,…

A case study of library science students enrolled in fieldwork programs through South African universities analyzed the positive and negative effects of the socialization that such programs provide. Recommendations are made to counter the negative effects experienced by some students, such as dissonance of values. (25 references) (LAE)

A commentary on the articles in this special issue addresses the themes of the origins and consequences of children's adversarial social roles and behaviors; children's peer relationships as a context for social learning and development; and linkages between the family and peer systems. (LB)

The biggest problems with public schools is that they are public, big, compulsory, and pluralistic. Their powerlessness to achieve a broad consensus for common methods of socialization harms the education of both students who come to school already socialized and those whose background of deprivation did not give them these social values. (SK)

Pedagogical changes proposed in Scotland's Primary Memorandum of 1965 were not widely implemented because they were incompatible with the enveloping social structure and impeded transmission of the prevailing cognitive style. A macrosociological methodology committed to "structural perception" is proposed for analysis of teacher…