The author shows how "Star Trek" is more than a television show about space exploration and the future. Captain Kirk's style demonstrates there are goals to be achieved. (Author/MLF)

Discusses the teacher as a health-care role model and identifies some specific examples of significant behaviors. (Author/RK)

Describes a project in which female prisoners were matched with socially active women volunteers from the surrounding community. Program encouraged home visits, shopping trips, attendance at various activities in the community, and opportunities to engage in personal interaction. Results indicate that each encounter was significant to all persons…

This model of organizational learning represents a transformative learning process involving shared mental models and vision; links between organizational, team, and individual learning; and the central role of leadership and teamwork. (SK)

This literature review of mentoring to support teachers entering new institutions in further and higher education addresses peer relationships with mentors, learning styles and mentoring styles, and role and role models. (SK)

States that the gap between men's and women's college major choices has not changed over the past two decades. Uses micro-data from 1988-2000 Colgate University (Hamilton, New York) student records, transcript records, and faculty records to determine if role models influence college majors. Finds that faculty can exert a role model effect on…

Explores the opinions surrounding a high school teacher, Karen Jost, and her statement that "high school writing teachers should not write." Describes the author's personal journey as a teacher of adolescents and teachers, acknowledging some of the reasons why educators do not live literate lives in the classroom. Offers some of the reasons why…

Proposes a model for improving the structure of enculturation such that young (and older) African Americans can experience broader access to routes of black social and economic mobility. The model is based on observation of enculturation in and around community-based sports clubs in New Zealand. Suggests that components of the club structure would…

Biographies provide the opportunity for identification, not only with those who are great today but also with those who have lived greatly in the past. Biographies fulfill students' needs for identification with someone who is admirable. Examples of inspiring life stories, sources of such stories, and questions are included. (JD)

Psychiatric hospital developed empirically conceived group reminiscence program to evoke use of communication skills by geriatric residents. Goals were to tap into memories of period before patients' onset of dysfunctional mental illness and to prompt positive feelings during guided discussions, thereby allowing for more frequent, appropriate…

Argues that realistic adolescent fiction is necessary so that teens will know they are not alone in their experiences, but that literature offering positive parenting and family models is also needed. Twenty-four books encompassing both genres are briefly reviewed. (CLB)

Examined representation of Hispanics in Holland types of work across educational levels, using 1980 census data. Data suggest that children and youth are exposed to limited set of occupational role models, both in terms of type and level of jobs. Also found that low educational level has inhibited the ability of parents to improve children's…

A study to identify factors influencing African American women (n=340) to enter the legal profession found that influences included value placed on educational and occupational achievement, having a working mother and other black women as role models, their parents' nonsexist attitude, early work experience, and educational opportunities provided…

Health and medical researchers have conclusively proven that smoking and secondhand smoke constitute a major health danger. Students get mixed messages when school staff smoke or use other tobacco products on campus. This article advocates a total ban on tobacco use in school settings, offers policymaking guidelines, summarizes state legislation,…

Completion of the Bem Sex Role Inventory and Attitudes toward Women Scale by 95 female managers (of 200 surveyed) found that most were androgynous or masculine in gender-role orientation and had highly egalitarian views of women's role. Most had middle-class backgrounds, close relationships with parents, mothers employed outside the home, mostly…