In an investigation of why Black youth in the greater Little Rock area appear to have low self-concepts, l97 Black adults were interviewed. Interviewees included professionals and nonprofessionals and the employed and unemployed. The average age was 33. Approximately 60 percent agreed that the majority of Black youth have a poor self-concept.…

This study examined female adolescent characters portrayed in over 200 episodes of 19 prime time television programs aired in the spring of 1988, and analyzed the messages these programs conveyed about education and work. It was found that although adolescent girls outnumbered adolescent boys on prime time television, these female characters were…

This speech discusses the failure to educate America's athletes. The speech covered the extent of the national scandal of the exploitation of athletes as well as the work of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. The Center is the first university-based program to address the issue of the education of athletes with…

The assumption that the family as an institution is experiencing a continuous and rapid loss of functions is challenged. Instead, the institution is seen as assuming new sets of responsibilities in the areas of sexual intercourse, recreation, and therapeutic services. (Author)

In this paper, criteria involving observation of the activity of agents of influence themselves are proposed and investigated. (Author/NQ)

Investigated the separate and interactive effects of a model's affective response and anticipated consequences of third and fourth grade children's imitative and nonimitative play behaviors. (ED)

This study examines the effects of modeling influences upon social drinking behavior. Male college students classified as heavy social drinkers were assigned to one of six groups in a 3 x 2 factorial design. The results are discussed within a theoretical framework that emphasizes the social learning determinants of drinking behavior. (Author)

Peer interactions are important in the socialization of aggression, sex-role learning, and the internalization of moral values, and contribute to the development of cognitive and language skills. Evidence is presented to support the contention that peer modeling is among the most powerful social influences to which children are exposed.…

This report describes the development and implementation of a process-oriented teacher education model for undergraduates in the area of reading/language arts, which stresses understanding of decision making for the classroom teacher. The historical development of the project is discussed, including: (a) conceptualization during the first year,…

Previous research has suggested that people who have liberal attitudes toward women are affected by models differently from those with more traditional attitudes. This study investigated this modeling effect by asking college seniors to rate the degree to which a variety of people influenced their career choice while in college. (Author)

A study of modeling behavior shows that undergraduate students who received negative feedback about their ability on a particular task tended afterward to imitate the poor models. (Editor)

This research reports the relationship between supervisory performance of eight leadership functions and group performance in 43 library work units. These eight functions can be used as a guide to future research designed to identify additional leadership functions. (Author/RK)

A teacher of college dance discusses his awareness of his body, his movements, and his masculinity, relating them to the role of the dance instructor in the studio, in the classroom, and in the world at large. (MJB)

Teachers, professors, administrators must be alert to certain factors that indicate change if they wish to be successful, teaching and motivating in their chosen roles. Discusses those factors and presents six ways of motivating people to learn. (Author/RK)

Who are today's models and what difference does it make? A secondary English teacher in Detroit who later became a university teacher examines the hero and the celebrity as seen by his secondary students and teachers and future teachers from 1959-1976. (Author/RK)