Spiritual socialization can be central to children's healthy development. An ethnographic study of the beliefs of African-American adults about children's socialization in Sunday school, and an ethnic-sensitive social work intervention designed to support the development of resilience in African-American children are described. (Author/EMK)

Observed public and private school lunchrooms and recorded where students sat by race, calculating the percentage of students who sat with students of other races. Overall, 63.5 percent of private school students and 49.7 percent of public school students sat in integrated groups. Influences on integration included segregated housing patterns,…

Examines how rural, lower track, underrepresented students made sense of their place in school and what role school science played in their cultural reproduction. Aims to identify key components of science classroom discourse, analyze means of negotiating these components, and explicate participants' beliefs and roles in defining microcultural…

Summarizes a study based on participant observation, interviews, and document reviews of three students with severe disabilities in three inclusive educational settings. Explores organizational and interpersonal "membership" work by educators, parents, and students, showing how these practices shaped students' educational identities and…

This taxonomy of learning tasks new employees must complete has four categories: individual (attitudes, expectations), people (relationships, supervision), work tasks (knowledge, skills, abilities), and organization (culture, roles). Learning tasks are accomplished through three types of intervention: orientation, job training, and workplace…

Explores young people's perceptions of mentoring relationships. Proposes a typology of mentoring forms. Interviewed a sample of 150 adolescents, both in groups and individually. A range of forms of mentoring were perceived as valuable. From these a typology of mentoring forms is devised. (KW)

Outlines a personal philosophy on the nature of humans, aims of education, and the role of adult educators. Cites the influences of Bergevin, self-directed learning, and social learning theory on this philosophy. (SK)

Examined what children learned spontaneously from each other in everyday activities within the preschool culture. Findings from two preschool classes of 14 children aged 1 to 3 years and 18 children aged 3 to 6 years show the knowledge and skills, often tacit, that children learn from each other through social practices. (SLD)

Notes that early explications of family communication patterns (FCP) suggested a family's communication pattern arises from interactions in which parents and adolescents influence each other. Revisits the assumption that adolescents influence FCP, using data from a longitudinal quasi-experimental evaluation of a school-based civics curriculum…

A study investigated the perceptions of 12 adolescents with visual impairments on the social support they received from their parents. Emerging themes illustrated processes by which participants received emotional, informational, and tangible support. Implications for the training of parents, rehabilitation counselors, and educators are provided.…

Examines specific and narrow nature of selfhood. Debates social consequences of two central notions of the constructed self-authenticity and autonomy. Suggests that propagation of these notions within selfhood may have some derogative consequences to social relations. Suggests that counselors need to develop much more awareness of the sociological…

Explores the components of the assimilation stage of Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) socialization, with a specific focus on the relationship between GTA involvement in supportive communication relationships and GTA use of information-seeking strategies. Finds that a correlation exists between GTA involvement in supportive communication…

Examined how sibling relationships were portrayed in a sample of 261 children's books, as well as how parents were depicted when responding to sibling conflict. Found that although children's books often represented warmth and involvement between siblings, they rarely described conflict management or relational maintenance activities. Parents were…

Child's play may be at risk in today's technologically-oriented society. The limited interactive capacities of high-tech toys constrain the possibilities for cognitive development, interpersonal learning, and the quality of relationships that can be formed. Current high-tech toys change the nature of play, so that the object, rather than the…

Compared emotion socialization in 26 children with anxiety disorders ages 8-12 years and their mothers to 26 nonclinical counterparts without psychopathology. Children and their mothers participated in an emotion interaction task in which they discussed occasions when the child felt worry, sadness, and anger. Responses were coded for length of…