Provides an overview of the field of literacy studies, describing the range of work that has been covered and identifying current unresolved issues as ways of suggesting future directions and showing ways that literacy can be seen as an integral part of language. (Author/VWL)

To assess predictions from social identity development theory (SIDT; Nesdale, 2004) concerning children's ethnic/racial prejudice, 197 Anglo-Australian children ages 7 or 9 years participated in a minimal group study as a member of a team that had a norm of inclusion or exclusion. The team was threatened or not threatened by an out-group that was…

In this article, the author, who is a school principal, discusses her strategies of implementing schoolwide discipline process. Seeking a solution, she attended a two-day workshop on schoolwide discipline. In the two-day workshop, she and her staff learned to institute a more effective approach throughout the entire school, an approach that is…

The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of otherness as it applies to the content of sociology of the family texts. We conducted a study of the content of the indexes and the body of texts on sociology of the family, examining the way in which the experiences of whites were addressed relative to families of color. We found that whites…

Like the proverbial "square peg" that meets resistance when forced to go through a round hole, adult students often struggle as they try to progress through systems of higher education that have been shaped to accommodate traditionally aged students. Adult students may have difficulty progressing through the postsecondary system because…

This study examined the effects on 6- and 8-year old children (n = 160) of rejection versus acceptance by an initial group, the reason for the rejection or acceptance (personal versus category-based), and the norms (inclusion versus exclusion) of a new group to which the children were assigned, on their negative affect and attitudes towards the…

To explore factors associated with college students' intentions to participate in Internet-based health research, data were collected from 502 undergraduate students enrolled in introductory-level business courses at a large midwestern university. Findings suggest that intentions to participate in Internet-based research are influenced by one's…

This study examined what values, attitudes, and behaviors are conveyed through televised sports news programming that would be expected in both sport and the world of work. The study involved viewing 102 editions of ESPN's "SportsCenter," a sports news program, and recording comments made by program anchors, news journalists, players,…

Alcohol use and abuse has received extensive attention, with recent concerns focused on the use and abuse of alcohol by adolescents and young adults. Alcohol use has become one of the major rituals in the rites of passage from childhood to adulthood. Anthropologists have documented the importance of rites of passage rituals for marking the…

The paper presents the standards of the University of Colorado concerning academic honesty and integrity and explains how the university handles breaches of these standards. Breaches of academic honesty include cheating, plagiarism, and unauthorized possession or disposition of academic materials not formally released by the instruction. Each of…

Mythologies develop in corporations the same way they develop in tribes or nations and provide the driving force for building loyalty to and identification with the organization. The myth-building process involves a constituting experience or founding event, an existential interpretation of the event, the institutionalization of the event, and the…

The proceedings of a seminar on corporate loyalty and the contributions of a liberal arts curriculum to this quality in the workplace are presented. They include the keynote address by Tadao Okabe and panel presentations by Paul R. Verkuil, Paul MacCowatt, Vinson Sutlive, Thomas T. Tilghman, George N. Appell, Herrington J. Bryce, Hans Tiefel, and…

Part of a series of instructor training modules on related subjects instruction for apprentices, this booklet deals with controlling instructional settings. The first chapter consists of an outline of the scope and content of the instructor training modules as well as a self-assessment pretest. Covered in the module are establishing and explaining…

School athletics can be an exceedingly potent tool for developing desirable behavior patterns -- but only if directed by coaches of resolute integrity. Offers illustrative anecdotes. (Editors)

Proposes two kinds of contract grading criteria relating to preparation and measurement of assignment objectives. (MH)