A student in the University of Hawaii's College of Education comments on the Human Development curriculum and the responsibility of educators to focus on their own values and attitudes and how they influence students. (RK)

Presents a cognitive-functional explanation of television's influence on Anglo-American, Native American, and Hispanic adolescents' acceptance of values. Finds that adolescents accepted values observed in television when they recognized them (a measure of learning) and when they evaluated the values to be important in "being successful" in the…

Reports a two-year study of college faculty promotion and tenure involving interviews, with over 300 individuals, focused on the socialization processes for tenure-track faculty in four-year institutions. Modernist views of socialization are challenged, and a schema based on postmodernism is proposed for examining organizational socialization.…

Postulates that creativity is a state of being challenged by the socialization process in Western civilization, which stifles creativity from early childhood. Explores definitions and theories of creativity, the functions of the social ego, and the different modes of being. Discusses implications for education. (Author/CR)

Adolescents (n=353, 55% female) described their use of product levels and exposure to marketplace-related communication. Females used labels more and had greater exposure to communication, which influenced label use. Parents and peers were important sources of consumer learning. (SK)

Study results with 82 preschool children show that mothers' and fathers' emotion socialization strategies were different and in some cases differed with the child's gender, and that these reported emotion socialization practices were differentially related to children's behavior during peer play. (SLD)

To test a model of the effect of sex-role socialization on women's career motivation, data were collected in 1980 from 9th and 12th graders (n=1,863) with follow-ups in 1990 and 1991-93. Predictors of persistence in science careers, career salience, mastery motivation, and career aspiration were identified. (SK)

Examines German research on apprenticeships with a focus on four questions: How are young people allocated to apprenticeships and thereby to occupations? What are the occupational prospects for those who have completed apprenticeships? How does apprenticeship affect political socialization? and How does it affect personality development? Offers…

E-mail surveys of business faculty and focus groups with international students identified student behaviors that undermine academic performance, such as low participation and interacting only with international students. Strategies to facilitate student adjustment include initial meetings, small groups, and an atmosphere open to differences. (SK)

Television can be an important medium for the teaching and learning of the developing child. This article explores how social learning theory and the cross-cultural images and portrayals on television might influence the multicultural attitudes, values, and beliefs of children. (Contains 22 references.) (Author)

In this qualitative study, 8 Hispanic counseling student interns told the story of their professional identity development. Qualitative analysis of the transcripts of audiotaped semistructured interviews revealed 7 general themes. Results may provide counselor educators with direction in facilitating the socialization of Hispanic graduate…

Assessed children's temperament and maternal socialization at age 2-3. Assessed children's conscience at ages 4 and 5 by observing children's cheating behavior in a game. Found that for children fearful as toddlers, maternal gentle discipline promoted conscience at age 5. For children fearless as toddlers, alternative maternal socialization…

Subjects were trained in three targeted skills. Game training produced large and consistent gains in all target responses however, no generalization was recorded in covert assessments. Subsequently, an in-situ training procedure consisting of intermittent verbal prompts and reinforcement was used, which significantly increased use of skills in all…

A study of 291 students at varying stages of training for law (45%), accounting (40%), or human resource management (15%) found that those in traditional professions had greater exposure to employers, more engagement in recruiting, and more experience of selection processes. This greater activity was associated with career expectations and…

Addresses the dilemma faced by religious and theological educators committed to a feminist, liberative pedagogy when teaching learners in the church whose Confucian upbringing has socialized them into different means of instruction. Explores the practices of Confucius/Kongzi and traces the historical development of Confucianism. (CMK)