Study is an attempt to substantiate the hypothesis of an increasing prescriptive (or decreasing proscriptive) orientation in moral values between 1929 and 1958. (Authors)

This paper focuses on the simulation games developed at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., which deal with a variety of social processes or situations. The paper, given before game play, identifies some of their characteristic features and discusses the educational implementational implications of the ways in which they are seen to…

The relationship between class and voting has been described using concepts such as class voting, political distinctiveness of classes, class distinctiveness of parties, and class solidarity. A model is developed to analyze under what conditions the index of class voting is affected by different ways of classifying occupational groups. (Author/JB)

An open classroom'' with an integrated day and inter-age grouping is not enough in and of itself...to assure continuity for each child....The role of the teacher is still crucial. (Authors)

Passage of the 26th Amendment gave young adults the right to vote. This study attempts to further student understanding of the electoral process by presenting a method for analyzing spatial voting patterns. The spatial emphasis adds another dimension to the temporal and behavioral-structural approaches in studying the American electoral system.…

The Moral Education Project described here is concerned with how people actually live, how their behavior affects others, and whether their behavior makes a happier, healthier and fuller life possible.

Results of the present study suggest that the socialization of ethnic perception involves a number of agents and is not dependent exclusively on mothers' attitudes. (Authors)

The results of this investigation, employing the newly-constructed Doll Play Technique as an instrument for obtaining young children's perceptions, support the thesis that the young child's behavior is related to his perceptions of his parents' attributes. (Author)

An adult model (teacher) displayed a preference for the doll least selected by the children in her classroom. Indications were that children in the experimental classes imitated the preference of their teacher in selecting their favorite doll at the completion of the experimental period. (Author/CB)

Suggests that the educational system be changed so that the task of learning becomes a common one. The problem, the author observes, is to reorganize the social structure of the school so that teachers and students can belong to the same group, with an identity of interest, even if they have different roles within its framework. (JF)

Project 18 is a course developed to encourage student involvement in the political system. It attempts to teach the importance of an active, concerned citizenry for the democratic process. (Author)