Explores schooling in the United States with regard to its successes, failures, relationship to social influences, objectives, philosophy, and influence on students' self-images. Suggests that educational reform will succeed only when genuine social and individual liberation are recognized as desirable. (DB)

In the model presented here, it is proposed that four factors and their interrelationships be considered when planning moral values instruction: the desired values of a society or subculture, learner ability, learner motivation, and theory-based instructional design principles. (Author)

The article critiques the Fagen-Long curriculum, an affective education program which provides emotionally disturbed and learning disturbed students with lessons in self-control. (SBH)

Investigates cognitive consistency in social behavior among 90 preschool children. Finds that the smaller the incentive used to induce subjects to perform a counterattitudinal act, the greater the change in their attitudes toward the act. Suggests minimal external justification by others so children can reduce dissonance through…

Teachers and students socialize one another in a reciprocal relationship. They both win--or lose--depending on the teachers' awareness and understanding. (Author)

In a study of the development of role playing, 67 seventh graders were given Feffer's Role Taking Task. Measures of the child's perception of parent behavior, IQ, Marburg Education Scales and educational attainment were collected. (MS)

Kindergartners, third and sixth graders were asked to evaluate factors in filmed sequences depicting accidental or intentional damage followed by expiation, explanation or no reprimand. (MS)

The "push" explanation emphasizes parental failure to meet the needs of the child and adolescent and to establish a satisfactory parent-adolescent relationship. The "pull" explanation states that an adolescent is led by peers to become less favorably oriented toward parents. Presents research findings supporting the "push" explanation. (Author/JM)

Three questions are examined: (1) Why have contemporary American educators generally ignored Durkheim's sociology of education? (2) What were Durkheim's contributions to the sociology of education as his analysis related to social change through education? and (3) What is the relationship between Durkheim's sociology of education, social change,…

Article defines four basic concepts of psychosocial development as stages of development, developmental tasks, psychosocial crisis and coping processes. Adolescence is treated as two distinct periods of development, and the main conflict of early adolescence is discussed. (RW)

Article discusses how the "...communication media no longer simply report political events.../but/are integrally bound in the very nature of the political process." (Author/RW)

Surveyed English, German, and Turkish children to discover transnational elements in Western European children's constructions of collective identity and in their conceptions of "us" and "them." Found that a complex web of factors is involved in children's beliefs about being the same versus being foreign, and that actual…

Rated first through fifth graders' political knowledge and recall of a simulated news story. Used path analysis to determine relationships among grade level, political knowledge, recall of specific story information, and generation of inferences from the story. Results suggested that children's domain-specific knowledge is more influential in…

Review of literature from 1965 to 1995 on the money management behavior of families with limited incomes and African-American and Hispanic-American families identified practices related to budgeting, credit, savings, socialization of children, information seeking, and banking. Little documentation on these populations was found, but some…

Analyzed 320 case records, interviewed offenders and staff, and made general observations to evaluate a nonresidential, anti-incarceration facility. Results indicate that successful graduates have the least serious criminal records, most have positive attitudes toward the facility, and participants receive much individual attention. Other findings…