The author proposes that schools should do more to develop a sense of personal autonomy in their pupils. They should do more to identify and develop the full potential and varied abilities of pupils and should pay more attention to cooperative rather than competitive values. (CT)

Discusses five generalizations based on political education correlational research and assesses their implications for teachers of citizenship education. Conclusions include: l) knowledge can be influenced more directly than attitudes, 2) the quality of civics instruction is critical in shaping attitudes, and 3) a more realistic picture of…

Investigates the beliefs held by kindergartners and second graders regarding the competence of boys v girls. Findings of this study support previous reports in that the sex-role stereotypic socialization process begins very early and that the learning increases with age. (Author)

Television, the author asserts, is the overwhelming factor in the continuous education and socialization of people of developed nations. Examines criticism of mass media's potential for behavior modification and subconscious manipulation. Advocates alternative uses of television based on Paulo Freier's "total language" approach, to teach…

This study tests the degree of factor invariance and factor structure replicability of the Family Environment Interview Schedule. Samples of families from different locations were used. Four interpretable factors were derived. Evidence suggests that the four factor solution was invariant across both samples with an identical factor structure.…

Critiques history teaching guidelines published by the Canadian Ministry of Education for use in Ontario. Maintains that the guidelines were hastily drawn up, do not represent the best of curriculum development principles and practices, are very inconsistent, and are obsessively nationalistic in ideological emphasis. (DB)

Clarifies the meaning of the life skills approach by looking at appropriate content and methods. The content of the life skills approach includes the themes of knowing and developing oneself and effective communication and relationships with others. (Author/BEF)

Cubberley Conference at Stanford University was first major attempt to propose application of behavioral principles to counseling process. Evolution of one of these strategies, social modeling, and how this strategy fostered development of more specific observational learning techniques, such as self-observation and self-modeling, are discussed.…

Identifies fears which can beset children on their first days of school, discusses reasons for a wide variety of specific fears (separation anxiety, transition from a familiar to a strange environment), and suggests ways for parents to help their young children overcome fears of school. (DB)

Describes research in the process of decision making and socialization in the careers of women administrators. Shows how organizational policies and career norms affect women's incentives and opportunities for training. Suggests that contraditions of feminine and administrator roles and norms often lead to strain, and sometimes failure.…

Couples planning marriage participated in a longitudinal study examining the predictive power of communication ratings. Intact couples (N=9) completed data at three follow-up points. Results indicated the more positively premarital couples rated their communication, the more satisfied they were with their relationship five-and-a-half-years later.…

Investigates the way that mothers and their preschool children divided up strategic responsibilities for carrying out a problem-solving task which involved making a puzzle in accordance with a model. Among the results, findings suggest that adults' communicative moves were fulfilling different functions for children at different ages. (Author/RH)

Political education focuses on the issues of citizenship, socialism and development, and because this implies a definite stance towards man and society, it can be viewed as moral education in the Tanzanian context. Explores the nature of the political education, its effects, and the problem of indoctrination. (Author)

A husband's perception of himself as emotionally mature is positively associated with both his own and his wife's marital adjustment. A wife's perception of herself as emotionally mature is positively associated with her own marital adjustment but not that of her husband. (Author)

Four propositions concerning the cognitive structures of technological thought and liberalism are analyzed and the influences of these structures on the socializing role of public education are discussed. (JD)