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Pistrang, Nancy – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1984
Interviewed 63 nonworking and 42 working mothers with a first baby to examine the relationship between previous work involvement and the experience of first-time motherhood. Results showed high-work-involvement women tended to report greater irritability and higher costs of motherhood. For working mothers, work involvement was generally unrelated…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Employed Women, Foreign Countries, Homemakers
Boykin, James C. Ed. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1912
Contained herein are results and report of study on the current educational topics of: (1) Illiteracy in the United states and in Europe; (2) Industrial Supervisors in Georgia; (3) the New Phases of Education in Buffalo, N.Y; (4) Juvenile labor Bureaus and Vocational Guidance in Great Britain; and (5) a review of the Educational Museum of the St.…
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Public Schools, Museums, Foreign Countries
Thorpe, Mary, Ed.; And Others – 1993
This book on the culture and processes of adult learning contains 16 papers organized into sections on power, purpose, and outcomes; adulthood and learning; and learners' experience and facilitating learning. The following papers are included: "'Really Useful Knowledge', 1790-1850" (Johnson); "Feminist Challenges to Curriculum…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Learning