Describes a classroom experiment in which students completed a creative writing assignment based on sex differences in achievement motivation and performance. Findings indicated that females demonstrated motives to avoid success while males seemed not to want to accept the idea of female achievement. Explains how the experiment can be used in…

Variables from an earlier study on the attitudes of women entering into previously male-dominated military craft occupations were factor analyzed to construct and validate measurement scales for role stereotypes and socialization factors. The analysis supports previous findings of a relationship between perceived job performance and stereotyped…

Recommends that social scientists undertake research on the role of the street as an institution of youth education and socialization. Discusses related literature and presents information on a project undertaken on street socialization in some of the old town quarters of Wiesbaden, Germany from 1975-1978. (DB)

Social learning theory provides a complex scientific foundation for health education and can be used to improve health education research and practice. This foundation includes proven cognitive and behavioral constructs and techniques for promoting health behavior changes. (JN)

The quality of untrained adult leadership is a critical determinant of whether organized athletic competition for children outside of school is beneficial or detrimental. Physical educators have an obligation to become involved directly or indirectly as providers of coaching education for volunteers or by facilitating the development of youth…

To determine whether undergraduate social work students become more committed to certain values and a professional orientation rather than to a client, agency, or community, data were collected from students in an Eastern state college program and from two groups of non-social work majors. Overall, social work students were more professional in…

Discusses applying psychological principles to modify behavior of open enrollment students in introductory psychology courses. Open enrollment students frequently are inadequately socialized in the requirements of the student role, lacking in study skills, and poorly motivated to achieve academically. Procedures are integrated into the formal…

This discussion of education for the handicapped examines the collaborative responsibility of teachers and parents, the value of social learning and peer teaching, the role of the government, and the benefits of mainstreaming in preparing children for life in a culture of diversity. (SK)

Contrary to the bonding mystique, there is increasing evidence that women's lives are not lacking in friends nor men's so well-endowed. Women's well-developed interpersonal skills are an asset when events such as spouse's death or retirement require the reconstruction of social networks. (Author/SK)

Describes how preschool education in China has changed since the Cultural Revolution, what values and attitudes young children are being socialized to believe, to what extent public childrearing follows the political shifts within China, and how the changes in preschool education have been manifested in teacher selection and training. (NEC)

A study examined the effects of the student teaching experience on the pupil control ideologies of student teachers and attempted to assess the contributions of biography and social structure. Results indicated that cooperating teachers exerted little influence, but that biography and social structure played an important role in the socialization…

Education reforms, based on the ever-changing social values of the last 20 years, have left the schools in an amorphous state. Regardless of the changes that may affect demands made on schools, a principle need of the schools is balance. (CJ)

The arrangement of students into various learning groups is generally based on social class position. Social studies textbooks serve to perpetuate socioeconomic and political distinctions. School is discussed as a legitimating and socializing agency for an understanding of political and economic socialization in the school setting. (JN)

The ways in which values are learned in youth sport activities are discussed and the development of positive attitudes and behaviors are examined. Values are learned through modeling or imitating behavior. Three types of reinforcement can furnish incentives to achieve desired behaviors. (JN)

Concern exists that youth leaving the kibbutz have no occupation skills needed to secure work in the outside world. In a survey, two opposing hypotheses were examined: (1) kibbutz-born persons will be unable to adapt to outside life because of educational limitations; and (2) because of their education, kibbutz-born persons will display…