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Fritts, Chantrey A. – 1979
The perceived self-concept of 144 preservice and inservice teachers was studied in order to ascertain the level of professional group identity present in educational personnel. Eight characteristics of a "profession" were isolated, and a survey was administered to determine the item ranking order established by experience and by inexperienced…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Definitions, Graduate Students, Group Membership
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Parry, Ruth – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1982
Concerns about misuse of "poor self-concept" are expressed. Criticisms center around uncertainty of basic assumptions about values Blacks and Indians place upon themselves, and particularly on deemphasis of that part of self-concept dependent on group identity. Before educators can talk about bolstering poor "self-concepts," certain socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Blacks, Definitions