This module is designed to aid the fifth-grade teacher in implementing a self-awareness program to develop positive self-images among his or her pupils. Terminal and performance objectives for students are described, and activities leading to the realization of those objectives are suggested. The materials necessary for each activity are listed. A…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of being imitated on behaviors of preschool children. Each of 24 subjects was given a choice of three responses in a marble-dropping task and was required to make one choice, after which an experimenter either imitated or did not imitate a subject's behavior. The results indicated that when a…

This study analyzed the conceptualization of the parental role represented in selected children's books, using the following dimensions: need gratification and control, stimulation-maturity, and affection-emotional interchange. The sample consisted of 26 books representing equally two time periods, 1950-1960 and 1964-1974. A comparison of these…

Combining two issues significant in contemporary broadcasting--the influence of television on children and the role of women as portrayed by the media, this study analyzed the image of female children in 294 television commercials shown from eight in the morning until noon every Saturday from November 10, 1973, until December 8, 1973. Although the…

Curriculum research appropriately follows, rather than precedes, development. According to the "breakthrough" view of research, curriculum development and curriculum practice exhibit a deductive applied relationship to curriculum research. The obvious fault in this view is that it ignores the milieu of value claims about what is ideal and what is…

Social learning, in particular, modeling and imitation learning, is discussed in the five sections of this paper. Section One deals with the characteristics of the model (human versus cartoon, television, film, etc.) and characteristics of the situation (reward versus punishment, etc.). Section Two, which is relatively extensive, covers aspects of…

In order to enhance the therapeutic counseling potential of campus pastors, a brief orientation and training program in counseling was designed utilizing a client-centered orientation. The focus of training was on selected recorded interviews between clients and therapists and the reaction of the campus pastors to the interviews. (Author)

A heart-warming story that reminds all Spanish Colonials of their own "abuelitas". (Author)

Practical behaviors are suggested, which are part of an effective style for a building principal. Emphasis is on leadership, time management, and positive communication with students and staff. (SJL)

A program based on regular home visits by older adults to families of neglected or developmentally delayed children provides a model for parenting in the home, helps the children and gives the older adult visitors a satisfying role to play in society. (SE)

Summarizes the views presented at a public inquiry conducted by the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal. (SB)

How schools can be restructured to make them sources of ethical experiences is discussed in this article; responses to the author's point of view by other writers are printed at the end of the article. (JD)

Considers the fears about a unisex world, in particular the concern that children in such a society would grow up confused about what it means to be a man or a woman. Proposes that androgyny founded on the idea of firm gender identity provides a model and direction for change more viable than that connoted by the term "unisex".…

The basic question, "What is normal?" is being asked again to account for some of the changes that have come about in the maturation and development of today's youth. (MM)