Taken from the writings of Jawaharlal Nehru, this article revolves around his reactions to prison and the effect of imprisonment upon his political and social philosophies. Nehru discusses his political self realization and the need for unification of cultures. (RR)

Blind teachers can function effectively if there is a feeling of mutual respect between them and their students. (CK)

This study is based on a dissertation submitted to the Graduate School of Kent State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Ph.D. degree. (MH)

Describes the Career Beliefs Inventory (CBI) as being designed to aid counselors to identify assumptions blocking client's career progress. Examines rationale, scales, and uses. Describes the norming process. Reviews reliability, validity, and gender and ethnic differences. Lower scores on scales alert counselors to explore specific beliefs in…

Alice Miel notes disturbing trends such as people being ill informed, terrorism increasing, and failure to recognize the need to balance individual rights with the common good. She advocates curricular emphasis on group membership skills, increasing diversity, and problem solving. (SK)

Uses three types of isomorphism--normative, coercive, and mimetic--to illustrate how organizational socialization an be interpreted as a symbolic response to societal expectations. Advances institutional theory by demonstrating that socialization is not exclusively pragmatic. (Contains 106 references.) (SK)

Rapid globalization is forcing youth around the world to confront new developmental challenges, and conceptual models are needed that can capture this experience and its developmental implications. Exposure to nontraditional lifestyles opens up new socialization opportunities and raises the possibility of stress-inducing dissonance between…

This empirical study examines employee perceptions of organizational vision and leadership at three different time periods. New employees at a large manufacturing organization were surveyed regarding their perceptions of their organization's vision and leadership before they attended new employee orientation training, immediately after new…

The authors work in the intersection of theorizing, experience, and research in this article as they explore a critical social model that they created to guide an informal, arts-informed, community education project for sexual-minority youth and young adults. As they consider the influence of arts-informed education and Freirean pedagogy of…

One dimension of mathematics learning is developing an identity as a mathematics learner. The social learning theories of Gee (2001) and Wenger (1998) serve as a basis for the discussion of four "faces" of identity: engagement, imagination, alignment, and nature. A study conducted with 54 rural high school students, with half enrolled in a…

There is a paucity of research on how mothers and fathers socialize emotion in their adolescent sons and daughters. This study was based on 220 adolescents (range 11- to 16-years-old) who exhibit a range of emotional and behavioral problems and their parents. Parental responses to their children's displays of sadness, anger and fear were assessed.…

As part of their efforts to create a total advertising environment, companies continue to aggressively market in school to children and youth. Advertisers now routinely blur the boundaries between editorial content and advertising in an effort to thoroughly infuse childhood with marketing messages. The goal of creating a total advertising…