Suggests that the determinants of individual differences in parental functioning are illuminated by research on the etiology of child maltreatment. Three domains of determinants include parents' personal psychological resources, child characteristics, and contextual sources of stress and support. A process model of competent parental functioning…

Examines the issue of the family of orientation's (distinguished from family of procreation) impact on vocational development. Suggested that the family's influence on vocational development operates along two interdependent dimensions: (1) opportunities provided by the family for the developing individual and (2) socialization practices and…

Examined kinds of sexual communication between 48 sets of parents and their adolescent daughters. Results are described in three levels: (1) direct informational communication between mother and daughter; (2) mutual discussions containing behavior guidelines; and (3) general family discussion of sociosexual issues. (JAC)

Attempts to relate treatment and methodology for behavior modification by tracing progressive developments through the case study, and beginning comparative and followup stages of treatment, and points out how these developments necessitated changes in the types of measuring instruments employed, including concern for both design and data…

The article presents a summary and analysis of four models for building societies in schools--the Micro-Society, the Mini-Society, the Micro-Community, and the Micro-City. The economic, political, and social aspects of each model are discussed in detail. (Author)

Suggests that ongoing T-group training can work as an effective intervention in the socialization of student teachers' pupil control ideology; those student teachers in T-groups were scored more humanistic in their pupil control ideology than those in a control group. (Author/IRT)

In 1999, the American Educational Research Association (AERA) initiated the Commission on Research in Black Education (CORIBE) to stimulate research, research dissemination, and policymaking to improve education for and about people of African ancestry. A central concern has been to examine how education research can effectively improve the lives…

Many people dissatisfied with the public school system are actively seeking alternatives to public education. In the past, the only alternatives to public school were parochial or private schools or privately hired tutors. Not everyone could afford these alternatives. Over the past 20 years, another alternative to public school education has come…

This study traced boys' and girls' developmental trajectories for key constructs within the Expectancy-Value theoretical framework in relation to secondary school mathematics, using latent growth modeling. These trajectories were contrasted, and explanations were suggested for gender and age effects where they occur. The participants spanned…

This study examined links between early adolescent exposure to entrepreneurial gang activity and later criminal justice, economic, and social outcomes, comparing the social and behavioral outcomes of young people with active gang involvement and their non-gang affiliated counterparts. Participants came from a concentrated poor, predominantly…

This document presents the curricula and space utilization program of the Buckeye Valley Middle School in Ohio, which is designed to effectively address the learning and socialization needs unique to middle school students. The paper first explains these unique learning needs. Then it examines why a program to meet these needs is important. The…

To better understand the perceptions of new faculty regarding the professional socialization process, a qualitative study of faculty socialization was conducted at a comprehensive state-supported university. Fourteen faculty members hired within the last 3 years, whether inexperienced, experienced, or returning (those who had worked in another…

Viewing all students as potential voters, the author asserts the need for including political education in school curricula and suggests the viability, as well as form, of its inclusion. (JH)

The present study evaluates the relationship between social learning and developmental theories in the prediction of changes in cognitive behavior. (Author)

This essay describes and analyzes the ways in which the different Iraqi regimes have provided, unsuccessfully, for the education of its largest minority group, the Kurds. An effort will be made to assess the extent of the integration of the Kurdish minority into the mainstream of the Iraqi society. (Author)