Argues, on the basis of experiences with a black studies course at Tulse Hill, South London, that - young black people must find their own identity; that present curricula distort the relationship between different races; and that the local educational authorities must take a positive view of the situation, or else any advances will be piecemeal.…

An eclectic language arts program which stresses the use of personal experiences in developing language abilities may be the best approach to the development of self identity. (JH)

Raises some of the more crucial issues involved in the school counselor's search for a meaningful, workable, and relevant professional identity. (Author/PC)

As a multidisciplinary approach, Appalachian studies may provide insights for understanding the context of education in the region. Appalachia is marginal to the official centers of political, economic, and cultural power in the South just as the South is marginal to the core of official power in the United States. In both cases the result is…

Written from the perspective of a Jesuit priest who was both a missionary to the Oglala Lakota for 20 years and a scholar of the anthropology of religion, this book offers a model for understanding Oglala religious identity. It describes the history, belief systems, and contemporary ceremonies of three religious movements among the Oglala Lakota…

This study examines the normalcy of adolescent risk-taking and proposes that the social adventures of adolescents have significance for the development and maintenance of interpersonal relationships and self-identity. To evaluate the narrative role of shared risks in transforming different types of relationships, an interview procedure was…

To examine perspectives of change in individual-organizational socialization, a study used the retrospective interview technique (RIT) to reconstruct the history and process of individuals' socialization experiences over an 8-month period. Using the RIT, researchers asked subjects, 28 entering graduate students enrolled in three communication…

This document presents a case history of an 80-hour consulting contract undertaken in 1984 whereby a human resources consultant provided training in team building, communication skills, and creative problem solving to the management team of the Water Revenue Department (WRD) of the government of the District of Columbia. The troubled history of…

This paper is concerned with the relationship between black adolescents' performance on school measures of success, particularly as this performance is perceived to be indicative of their intellectual and academic capabilities and their group identity. The paper's basic premise is that many black adolescents have made the decision not to seek…

Low and High identification rural economically deprived adolescent males, who had been previously surveyed as high school seniors concerning their post-high school plans, were surveyed again one year later concerning their present occupational status and feelings of personal satisfaction. There were significant differences between current…

Comparisons were made between the post high school plans and the adequacy of father identification of male adolescents from rural economically deprived areas. The hypotheses predicting that higher identification male subjects have higher levels of aspiration, more self-confidence and greater satisfaction with school experiences were confirmed by…

One hundred eighty elementary school children were randomly assigned to same sex pairs and randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: real-life aggressive film, aggressive cartoon, or nonaggressive film. Results reveal that boys who viewed the realistic aggressive film were significantly more aggressive in play than boys who viewed the…

This article describes the second part of the Pittsburgh Project which dealt with the construction of a black consciousness measure. The introductory section of the paper dealt with a description of Cross's and Thomas's theories about psychological processes in blacks. In order to illustrate these models, an examination of autobiographical and…

Research on a sample of urban black adolescents sought to discover Protestant-Catholic differences in attitudes toward achievement and black identity; the results are interpreted as suggesting that a distinctive secular orientation exists among black Catholics, combining higher educational and occupational aspirations and an attenuation of black…