This paper examines Aristotle's view of the family as providing indispensible motivations for the moral education of the young, the inadequacy of the family in providing moral education, and the need for laws to protect the community and to educate the community regarding public affairs. (MT)

This paper is part of a research project designed to look at questions of giftedness and exceptional ability in the arts through a case study of three world-class artists. Examination of the childhood art of Picasso, Lautrec, and Klee reveals no common subject preferences nor any real anomalies in graphic development. This paper focuses on the…

Today, parents and society share responsibility for educating children to be workers and transmitters of the cultural heritage. Attitudes toward the primacy of the mother's role in child development have changed; now both fathers and mothers need to know more about child rearing. This need should be fulfilled by adult education programs. (SK)

Representing part of the first phase of a 5-year ethnographic research project, this report explores connections between school achievement and Irish ethnicity. Part 1 of the report reviews Irish history from 400 B.C. through the Irish famines of the mid-1800s, highlighting England's cultural and economic suppression of Ireland. Part 2 describes…

Based on the diary of Mary Moody Emerson (1771-1863), which was discovered in the Houghton Library at Harvard University among the Emerson family papers, as well as on hundreds of her letters and other records, the lives of five generations of women within the Emerson ministerial dynasty are recovered, and their religious and family experiences…

Representing part of the first phase of a 5-year ethnographic research project, this report investigates the ways in which Puerto Rican families influence their children's school achievement. The report examines the history of Puerto Rico and the migration of Puerto Ricans to the United States. Puerto Rican community organizations, both local and…

Three areas are addressed in this paper: the family-in-crisis motif; the family as educator; and parent education. (1) The family in crisis: The family-in-crisis motif pervades both professional and popular commentary on the contemporary American family. There are powerful continuities in our perception of the American family crisis in every…

Published originally in 1952, the bulletin "How Children Learn to Read" was the first in a series designed to illustrate the philosophy and principles set forth in The Place of Subjects in the Curriculum, Bulletin 1949, No. 12. It was planned to describe as simply as possible, especially for inexperienced teachers and for parents, the process of…

This is Volume 1 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1891-'92, containing Part I. This volume includes the Commissioner's Introduction and Part I, which contains the chapters: (1) General Classified Summary of Pupils of All Grades in Public and Private Schools and Institutions; (2) Statistics of State Common School Systems;…

This book presents 13 stories of Native American college students struggling for survival on several planes--intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual--and striving for success in their own terms in a cultural setting not their own. Although all the students attended Dartmouth College and graduated, the salient common theme of the stories is…

This literature review addresses the relatively recent perception of Chinese-Americans as superachievers by examining empirical research studies, statistical data, historical accounts, fiction, biographies, autobiographies, and newspaper stories. It is argued that only with a historical perspective can the myths be sorted from the realities about…

Examines fear as a social construct. Reviews literature and traces changes in the use of fear to control and socialize children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Collects evidence from manuals directed to middle-class parents, children's fiction, and popular reading materials, written between 1850-1950. Discusses female images portrayed…

This study is part of a regional study in industrial South Wales on the determinants of participation and non-participation in post-compulsory education and training, with special reference to processes of change in the patterns of these determinants over time and to variations between geographical areas. The study combines analysis of secondary…