Summarizes a study to determine the job skills needed by beginning U.S. principals. Data were collected from both practicing and aspiring principals. The two groups disclosed major perceptual differences. Whereas aspiring administrators believe that demonstrating technical skills is most important, their experienced colleagues believe it is more…

Highlights key findings described in Barrie Thorne's book, "Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School," which reports research focusing on American children in kindergarten through sixth grade. Indicates that gender segregation starts at birth and that socialization and the environment are the most salient factors in gender segregation. (AC)

Suggests that the study reported in this monograph indicates that the bias toward verbal instead of nonverbal interaction should give way, and avoids the tendency to dichotomize outcomes. Also suggests that scholars who study older children's learning should attend to nonverbal acts, focus on responsibility in learning, and emphasize attention to…

Examines how parental and peer sexual-socialization influences are related to gender, ethnicity, religious background, and college membership in a fraternity or sorority. Findings are based on responses from 557 college students and are discussed with respect to the concerns of social scientists regarding the influence of fraternities and…

This response to criticism of a previous article discusses the ways in which learners exist in and move through communities and how changing locations affect learning processes. Topics addressed include prior knowledge; practice-based, situated learning; political philosophy; learning as a social practice; and implications for the design of…

A model of diversity in nonprofit boards has these elements: use of language to further interests, levels of civic participation, social exchanges and incentives, socialization and acculturation of board members, and board composition and representation. Attention to these elements can foster inclusive, functionally diverse boards. (SK)

Describes perspectives on the socialization of cognition and emotion and discusses limitations of these perspectives. Key findings from one field are used to extend work in the other, and are interpreted in the framework of Vygotsky's zone of proximal development. (Author/BB)

A review of literature concerning the attitudes of young Germans toward technology focuses on feelings about both technology itself and technological change, the process of socialization toward technology, and interest in computers. It is concluded that the popular German notion of widespread hostility toward technology is not supported. (MSE)

Uses international examples of the ways in which political learning takes place--indoctrination, political socialization, and political education--to suggest that open and democratic political education is not common, even in democracies. (SK)

Responses from 86 business administration graduate students tested (1) a model matching self-concept to development of job preferences and (2) an expectancy-value model. Both models significantly predicted job preferences; a higher proportion of variance was explained by the expectancy-value model. (SK)

Ways are suggested for language researchers to understand the relationship between language and social identity. It is argued that speakers attempt to establish the social identities of themselves and others through verbally performing certain social acts and verbally displaying certain stances. (Contains 53 references.) (LB)

A study examined peer reviews of faculty manuscripts submitted for journal publication for meanings deeper than the specific correctives and suggestions they contain, based on reviewers' reactions, editor letters to authors, and authors' reactions. The peer review process is seen as constructing and reconstructing faculty membership in…

Interpretive approaches to the study of children address the fundamental question of how children come to invest cultural resources with meaning. The theoretical rationale and the key premises of these approaches are described. A discussion of interpretive methodological principles focuses on ethnographic methods. (MM)

Assessed differences in self-reported assertion responding between Asian- (n=45) and Caucasian-Americans (n=74) across nine different situations. Related differences to prior experiences, expectancy outcomes, or self-efficacy beliefs. Findings suggest that assertion differences between ethnic groups are situationally specific, with most…

In the controlled environment of prison education, students can learn to be creators of their own learning and to cooperate with others in pursuit of knowledge. They assimilate important social and thinking skills that can produce individual empowerment and prosocial awareness. (SK)