Gives recommendations for both long-range preparation and last-minute preretirement planning. Methods are being developed that can alert those facing retirement to the emotional difficulties they may face and help them plan ways of coping with problems. Difficulties include sense of belonging, socialization problems, achievement problems and…

Three socioideological measures were administered to 136 social work students, assessing their attitudes toward human nature and their etiological explanations of poverty and affluence in human lives. The study found that graduate students scored significantly more negatively and more conservatively than undergraduates. (Author/LBH)

The results of this research study illustrate the dynamics which underlie the formation of black and white adolescent mobility aspirations with regard to expected educational and occupational attainment and actual educational and occupational attainment. (AM)

Merton and Kitts' thesis of anticipatory socialization is supported. The importance of the class of destination, as opposed to the class of origin is underscored implying that anticipatory socialization is a primary explanation for differential attitudes formulated before adolescents have undergone mobility or achieved status positions equal to…

Argues that "schools symbolically redefine people." The social organization of schools is a major symbolic index of the kind of socialization that has occurred and thus legitimates the conferral of specific status rights. Organizational characteristics are thus causally linked to the social meanings attached to university attendance. (Author/JM)

Surveyed Year 1 and 2 teachers in Australia about their classroom rules. Found that teachers have about six rules for their classes relating to pupil-pupil relations, completing academic tasks, movement around the classroom, property, safety, and other. Most rules concerned pupil-pupil interactions, and all rules can be seen as a way of…

Presents and considers the vision of children as receptors of adults' ideological messages. Reviews examples of adults' rewriting for children, drawing primarily on the rewriting of folk stories. Reconstructs, using ethnographic data from urban schools, one branch of a classroom chain of communication. Discusses the classroom conditions that…

Describes a life space crisis intervention (LSCI) with a seriously disturbed adolescent. The LSCI showed how the youth unwittingly provoked peer rejection by making outrageous and inappropriate comments. Discusses the New Tools Salesmanship Intervention which taught the student prosocial skills and the student's reintegration into a regular…

This study examined the patterns of acquisition of social, communication, and daily living skills for children with autism and compared the patterns to children with mental retardation and controls by quantifying intradomain scatter on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales. Results found autistic development is deviant rather than delayed in…

Reports initial results of an investigation into achievements of Venezuelan state policies since 1958. The state remains the main driving force for school development. Venezuelan education is both public and centrally organized; the central government is the highest authority in educational matters. Decentralization as a way to reform rural…

A nursing school-clinic partnership was designed to teach nursing students community health practice skills. A longitudinal evaluation is being conducted to ensure that it meets the goals of baccalaureate education and urban health nursing and that it follows a multilevel process model of organizational socialization. (Contains 37 references.) (SK)

A study assessed the utility of a social story intervention to improve the lunchtime eating behaviors of an adolescent with Asperger syndrome. The social story program resulted in a decrease in the number of food and drink skills and an increase in the frequency of appropriate mouth-wiping during school lunch. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Explains that because we want children to be honest, strong-minded, bold, resist peer pressure, and speakout against wrongdoing, protection against hurt must sometimes give way to other priorities. Suggests benchmarks that should be incorporated into decision-making: the act itself, its consequences, the motives, and the personal history of the…

A "priming" strategy was used to increase spontaneous social initiations of two preschool autistic boys toward typically developing peers in a regular preschool classroom. Peers were also trained to independently respond to initiations. Following training, the boys demonstrated a variety of increased, spontaneous, and salient initiation…

Gender emerged as a discrete topic in "Educational Management & Administration" only after 1980; the first major call for serious treatment occurred in 1988. An understanding of gender's effects on school, college, and home life is crucial. Making gender figure rather than ground in school leadership studies contributes to a more…