Examines the influence of gender and exposure to gender-stereotyped music video imagery on the sexual attitudes of male and female viewers. Finds that traditional sexual imagery had a significant effect on attitudes about adversarial sexual relationships and gender had main effects on 3 of 4 sexual attitudes. (CMK)

Describes a class exercise where students in three different courses wrote ten responses to the question "Who am I?", in order to increase their understanding of social constructionism. Reveals that students accurately identified the gender of most respondents and saw this as a useful exercise to help them understand social constructionism. (CMK)

Examines the personal and social bias of adolescents' behavioral intentions in educational contexts by gender, content domain, and social context. States that the study focused on 930 adolescent boys and girls, aged 11-16 years, in co-educational and single-sex schools. Discusses the results in detail and includes references. (CMK)

Presents a study where classroom teachers used a five-point scale to rate the classroom conduct, behavior, and home background of 109 nine, ten, and eleven year old British primary school students. Investigates the relationship among cognitive style, gender, and behavior. Includes references. (CMK)

Describes an exercise for teaching about violence where the students keep a one-day journal about their experiences of fear, use of safety strategies, and analyze their findings. Discusses the students' reactions to the exercise and the advantages and disadvantages of this approach. (CMK)

Discusses gender equity and computer usage, reviews several software packages developed primarily for girls, and provides annotated bibliographies of seven CD-ROMs as well as book and Internet connections for each. Includes resources to guide girls on the Internet and resources for adults to help link girls with literature. (LRW)

Reviews library management issues over the past 25 years. Highlights include library education for managerial skills; on the job training; gender issues; societal factors; Total Quality Management; management changes; and future possibilities, including managerial roles, management models, and organizational structure. (LRW)

Describes a study of elementary school children that examined computer use in the home and at school. Highlights include frequency of activities; playing games on home computers; word processing at school; gender differences; and negative impact of school use of computers and positive impact of home computer use on attitudes toward computers. (LRW)

Examines how male and female students perceive their gender identity in 25 mixed and 43 single-sex secondary schools in Belgium. Finds that girls in coeducational schools more than girls in single-sex schools identified with both feminine and masculine traits, while their classroom behavior was more inhibited. (CMK)

Argues that arts education makes it possible for students to imagine themselves out of their current identities, describing how a middle school theater arts program supported female students' positive identities. Observation and interview data indicated that tools gained in the program transformed girls' attitudes toward education and other…

Describes results of a survey of library schools in Canada and the United States to examine placement and salaries of graduates. Discusses types of positions hired for; gender differences; the availability of job openings; average salaries; salaries by job type; and attitudes of graduates regarding their preparation for jobs. (LRW)

Discussion of privacy focuses on digital environments and a more inclusive understanding of privacy. Highlights include legal and policy conceptions; legislation protecting privacy; relevant Supreme Court cases; torts and privacy; European and other efforts; surveillance and social control; information entrepreneurialism; Jurgen Habermas; free…

Describes a study of third and fifth grade students that investigated moral dilemmas involving computer and Internet use. Significant differences were found between children's moral reasoning in everyday situations compared to those involving computer and Internet use, but gender differences were not consistently detected. (Author/LRW)

Explores the teaching of gender history within secondary education, focusing on the creation and development of a course on gender taught at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Addresses why teenage students are resistant to seeing the effects of gender. (CMK)

Explores what assumptions, specifically cultural memories and identity components, students bring with them into a world history course. Focuses on such topics as "Western" values and the two possible candidates of memory issues in world history (gender and idea of "modern"). (CMK)