Examines the issue of whether children's perceptions of maternal socialization behaviors are characterized by a preference for permissive mothers or for mothers who intervene to stop misbehavior. It is suggested that the majority of children studied (ages 4 to 8.5 years) preferred the interventionist mother. (MP)

Examines the Adult Education Association's (AEA) contribution to the knowledge base of adult education. Discusses AEA's most fundamental role--its influence as a force and structure for unifying the practical and substantive dimensions of this pluralistic field. (SK)

As critical reflection upon the essential nature of experience, phenomenology is the necessary foundation for research, theory, and practice in education. Three of the most fundamental problems dealt with by phenomenology (psychologism, constitution, and essences) have significance for education. (Author/SJL)

Adolescence is a difficult period of childrearing for parents. Disciplinary techniques were identified as perceived by mothers, fathers, and their adolescent children. Results indicated several areas of intrafamilial disagreement concerning disciplinary techniques utilized. All subjects agreed that some form of verbal reasoning was the primary…

The claim for growing intradisciplinary importance of adult education research has been accepted too readily. Adult education has been defined mainly from assumptions about learner characteristics, without considering the societal functions it fulfills. These factors have contributed to a lack of development of the discipline. (Author/SK)

To help college students understand psychology, the article suggests that instructors develop curriculum based on the relationship between scientific and technological advances and the development of early psychology. Views of many nineteenth century psychologists are summarized, including Johann Friedrich Herbart, Hermann Lotze, and Georg…

The Student Management through Incentives concept can help to establish a system of discipline that is both positive and preventive. A gradient of student privileges allows for individual differences and a student log card system provides for student monitoring and offers students with inappropriate behavior a way to redeem themselves. (Author/WD)

Reports the results of a study of the discipline alternative, in-school suspension, in which disruptive students are removed from the mainstream and placed in a specialized program within the school. Identifies four areas in which discrepancies were found between what was planned and what actually happened. (Author/WD)

Originally delivered as a speech to the American Educational Research Association, this article continues the debate over whether the field of curriculum is first, dead, and second, actually a field. (MLF)

Reviews developments within the field of American sociology since 1955, with particular emphasis on the subdisciplines of social stratification and mobility. Statistical applications and technical advances contributed by these subdisciplines have quantified sociology to the extent that all academic sociologists now need a thorough knowledge of…

Hypotheses were examined. The first posited a direct relationship between teachers' perceptions of student threat to teacher status and custodialism in teacher pupil control views. The other two proposed that secondary school teachers would perceive greater student threat to teacher status. None of the hypotheses could be rejected. (Author)

Describes use of a checklist, giving immediate feedback on specific items, to control individual behavior problems of students. (LD)

Theoretical disagreements that were present at the beginnings of systematic child study are reviewed. Some contemporary themes of American child psychology, such as (1) rational scientific inquiry, (2) the importance of mothers, early experience, and personal responsibility, and (3) the belief in the individual and self-contained child, are…

The article is designed to help parents and teachers understand the causes of common behaviors of gifted children that become "problems" to adults and to suggest some effective strategies for dealing with such behaviors. (SBH)

An in-school suspension program in Virginia is characterized by individualized academic and/or behavioral intervention. (Author/MLF)