This report is a brief account of the author's 1968-69 postdoctoral fellowship activities at Harvard, studying the bearing of social science literature and methodology on the history of education, particularly with reference to historical patterns of socialization. Specific products to which reference is made include two papers: "Childhood in…

This paper attempts to trace the historical and societal development of sex roles as related to women in today's society. Discussions include the role of the female in tribal societies, the development of monogamous marriage, and the societal influences which identify a woman primarily as a housewife and mother from the 16th-20th centuries.…

During the Gilded Age, a period of great apparent social change and of intellectual and economic insecurity in the United States, several popular children's periodicals published a type of conventional, domestic fiction which reveals the tensions and anxieties felt by a social group organized by a particular social ideal, namely the traditional…

Suggests that the dedication of the early twentieth century Jewish immigrant to schooling produced amazing results in a relatively brief period of time. Jews looked on the public schools as their ladder from the ghetto to the university. (Author/AM)

The authors argue that incidental learning--learning that is picked up through social interaction--is an important learning resource, though it is often not recognized as such by learners. Emphasis is on education for the unemployed. (Author/CH)

The mentor-protege relationship contains many elements of other important human relationships. Mentoring is described within the framework of Buber's I-Thou theory. Steps to encourage such relationships are given. (JL)

The author argues that all adult education can and should lead to political awareness, enabling people to take part in social change. (Author/CH)

Discusses the communicative uses of music by young people and how music plays a major role in adolescent socialization. (PD)

Philosophical accounts of sport's sociopolitical purposes tend either to condemn or promote various political ideologies. This essay gives a synthetic interpretation of the philosophical groundwork of judgments about socialist sport in terms of Hegel's contributions to Marxist thought and the implications of Marxist thought for modern sporting…

Children (in Grades K, 2, and 4) were required to judge how much they trusted each of their classmates. A same sex pattern of peer trust was found in fourth and second graders, but not in kindergarten children. Contrary to expectation, girls were not significantly more trusting in peers than were boys. (KH)

Two experiments showed that (1) verbal praise increased males' and females' intrinsic motivation on masculine and feminine tasks, and intrinsic motivation was higher for sex-appropriate than sex-inappropriate tasks; and (2) praise enhanced traditional females' intrinsic motivation even on a task that in earlier research showed striking…

Young children are capable of fairly sophisticated political concepts. If teachers were more aware of possibilities for early political education and had confidence in their ability to handle such areas, there would be scope for developing curriculum including elements of political education. (JOW)

Based on a study of variations in moral responses of Chinese and American children, an assessment is made of stage theories of moral development. (Editor)