Educational selection methods are not infallible. A considerable reservoir of unexploited intellectual ability remains in the working class. (Author)

Levi disputes Bell's belief (AA 511 929) that bourgeois culture has nothing intellectually respectable to counerpose to the adversary culture. (Editor)

A discussion in reaction to Bell's thesis (AA 511 929) of the reflection of, and influence on, culture in art. The author focuses on literature and argues that the function of literature is to provide multiple perspectives and to influence the reader, and that this it to the good. (Author/JB)

Reports results of answers given by pupils in one school (grades 1-6) to the question "What's a school for?" (WY)

A study of 90 first grade children indicates that, for young children, visual-motor coordination is a behavior that facilitates effective expression in art. (Author/MK)

Compared the perceptual learning of reflective and impulsive kindergarten children. (WY)

Replicates and corroborates a study by L. L. LeShan which reported that middle class (MC) children's stories cover a longer time span than those of lower class (LC) children. MC children's stories, however, were also longer in length and contained more past tense verbs. Time span may be an artifact of story length. (DB)

Argues that contrary to present notions, both pre-school and child-care facilities are considered important and beneficial by lower income groups as well as by upper- and middle-income groups and that consequently both forms of service should be supported by the Commonwealth Government in Australia. (SS)

Introduces a special issue that is positioned against the backdrop of the current "boys in crisis" debate. It focuses on how the articles address embodied identities and material inequalities; social mobility and working class femininities; resisting individualism and rationality; power and responsibility; masculinity and the middle class; and…

Investigated relationship between marijuana use, marijuana misuse, and personality among high school students (N=146) from middle- and upper-middle-class backgrounds. Results indicated relationship between personality characteristics of adolescents who were involved in marijuana use and misuse and adolescents who were not; there were discernible…

In this qualitative study, Caucasian women and African American women told the story of their identity development across a lifetime. The Difference Model (U. Oleyamade & P. Rosser, 1980) was used to analyze the interviews separately for each cultural group. Explains the pattern of development for each group and explores comparisons between…

Twelve white middle-class women who had been severely sexually abused as children by a family member were asked to provide a narrative of their abuse and discuss their subsequent remembering and forgetting of these experiences. Most claimed they had undergone periods during which they had not recalled their abuse, but also claimed that they had…