This symposium focused on art education management and continuing efforts to strengthen communications with professional colleagues in educational leadership positions throughout Arizona. The booklet provides the addresses of the keynote speaker and other invited guests. Welcoming remarks were made by Edward Groenhout, Dean of Fine Arts at…

Analyzes 116 Navajo senior class students attending Chinle High School on their perceptions of difficulties in migrating from the reservation and adjusting to urban life, Examines four variables related to basic survival skills for successful urban living: mobility, communication, social networking, and money management. (ERB)

Includes descriptions of successful careers in language teaching as told by the professionals themselves and offers suggestions for career adjustment. These include: find role models; get advice; do a self-survey; fantasize about your career; discuss your situation with professional colleagues; network with others at midpoint in their careers to…

Debunks common myths about rurality and rural Australia. Calls for a change in perspective, putting person and place at the center of learning. Local involvement is key to the proposed Centre for Rural Communities, which would promote community sustainability through networking and training. Describes the Rural Women's Programme in Victoria and a…

A network-analytic framework for understanding minority socialization illuminates institutional and ideological forces that hinder access to social capital and institutional support for minority children. Successful socialization goes beyond learning to decode the system: it entails learning to manage life in multiple worlds. (SK)

Traces the interrelations between neighborhood sociocultural factors and adolescents' networks, leisure preferences, and school behavior. The overall conclusion is that both the background variables and most of the network indices correlate with the outcome variables. Results show that time spent with peers indulging in passive leisure consumption…

A new theory of geographical analysis--sociospatial knowledge networks--provides a framework for understanding the social and spatial locations of a community's health knowledge and beliefs. This theory is guiding an ethnographic study of health beliefs, knowledge, and knowledge networks in a diverse rural community at high risk for type-2…

Discusses the historiography of women's education as it relates to the need for marginal groups to becomed involved in networking structures. Offers three frameworks (networking, religion, and money), illustrating ways to make gender more central to educational history. Argues that there is much work to be done in identifying a useful framework…

Proposes to measure sojourner's acculturation in terms of their social exchange networks, measuring second language success in terms of pronunciation. Provides strong evidence to support Schumann's (1978) acculturation theory. The acculturation experiences and second language pronunciation of 9 American women residing in Norway are described and…

Discusses the role of computer technology and Web sites in expanding social networks. Focuses on the New Deal Network using two examples: (1) uniting a Julia C. Lathrop Housing (Chicago, Illinois) resident with a university professor; and (2) saving the Hugo Gellert art murals at the Seward Park Coop Apartments (New York). (CMK)

Determines there is a continuing need to move research and information from those who generate it to the user and service provider in a form that has direct and immediate application. Explores the three challenges involved in developing a vision of pedagogy. (DAJ)

Analyzed support function of social network of families, educational staff, and peers of 33 adolescent females who were lower-class school dropouts in the Israeli Army participating in 6-month intensive program of educational upgrading. Found that educational staff and peer provided emotional, cognitive, and behavioral support whereas parents…

Examines aspects of mother-only families. Finds high economic insecurity in mother-only families because of low earnings, lack of child support and meager public benefits. Argues that struggle of mother-only families reflects societal struggles around changes in women's roles, relationship between state and family, and class and racial inequality.…

Data from 174 persons involved in French and Dutch community rescues of Jews during World War II revealed personal motivations based either on material, social, and religious norms or on social justice, each set linked to a distinct cognitive structure. However, organizational and supportive context factors were more significant than personal…

This paper examines the construct of social isolation in child maltreatment and reports on a study comparing 300 maltreating and nonmaltreating low-income mothers. Considerable variation was found between the two groups' structural network properties, perception of support, and types of resources received. However, maltreating mothers were not…