This study examined and described e-mail mediated instructional conversations conducted during a content area reading and writing course. Participants in the study included undergraduate students from three different content specialty areas, as well as an instructor who mediated the conversational interactions via e-mail communications.…

The path adolescents take from childhood to adulthood is a product of social, economic, political, and technological forces. These forces may facilitate youths preparation to become healthy adults, or they may leave youth unprepared for adulthood. Knowledgeable projections are vital in shaping the agenda for research; for alerting educators,…

This study investigated students' generalizations of numeric situations through the use of a whole-class teaching experiment in which students were provided problem situations in order to: (1) trace students' understanding of recursive and explicit reasoning; and (2) describe the sociomathematical norms and classroom practices that were…

This paper discusses the adequacy of using a collaborative model as research approach for studying the dynamics of a multicultural mathematics classroom. The goal of the research is the analysis of the immigrant students' processes of adapting to a new cultural context, from their home and school culture to the school culture that hosts them,…

In the 1970s W. Doise, G. Mugny and A.-N. Perret-Clermont underlined for the first time the essential role played by social interactions in cognitive development. Since then, many authors have been studying social interactions and their mediating role in knowledge apprehension and in skills acquisition. Inspired by L. Vygotsky's theory, many…

Early childhood institutions underwent a dramatic transformation in the twentieth century, with the perceptions of children not attending preschool reflecting shifts in political, educational, and social opinions regarding the best place for the rearing and education of young children. This lecture presents some historical "maps" of…

The biology, the behavioral, the cultural, and the social dimensions of agression are reviewed in relation to the role of teachers in the role of learning about conflict and conflict resolution. (KM)

Comparison with others is a way cultures can again encounter the law, which from the emergence of sexuality, has made the genesis of life dependent on a relationship between two beings. (Author/GB)

Appended is text of the song Duerme, negrito'' (Sleep, Little Black Boy) by Atahualpa Yupanqui, as recorded by Mercedes Sosa on the album El grito de la tierra'' (The Cry of the Land), Philips 6347005. (RS)

Author attempts to evaluate some issues common to this journal, such as, bridging the gap between research and theory on the one hand and classroom teaching on the other. (Author/RK)

This paper attempts to demonstrate that the question of conformity and rebellion is ultimately one of social and political structure by comparing the demographic and economic class lines of the English Boy Scouts and the German Wandervogel. (Author/KM)

Studies of theories developed by several demographic analysts dating from the 17th century form the basis of this essay about the effects of the French population and family structure on childhood education. A psychohistorical approach is suggested for future studies of population and pedagogy. (SM)

Results of a research project with a two-fold objective: first, to determine the forms, i.e., the kinds of pronouns used by a particular group of Japanese, and, second, to interpret the ways in which members of this group use the pronouns so determined under various specifiable conditions. (RS)