The problem of sex-role stereotyping on television has been studied by trying to develop television materials that are explicitly counter-stereotypic in terms of sex-roles. The development of a new television series "Freestyle," aimed at 9-12 year old children and their families, has led to some important observations about children's perceptions…

This resource booklet about working women presents role models of interesting women, past and present, many of whom have been successful in non-traditional work roles. Included are brief biographical sketches of working women in early America, during the industrial revolution, the early twentieth century, the Depression, World War II, and modern…

The mass media appear to have an influential role in the socialization of children by exposing them to a world far beyond the limits of their immediate experience. Because children must depend on mass media models for learning about adult sexual intimacy, a content analysis of daytime soap operas, to which many children are exposed daily without…

This paper argues that the mass media causes black youths to indulge in the myth that success in school athletics is the key to fame and financial security, and that the public library offers blacks many resources which can be used to supplement their education. It is also held that libraries have historically been inhospitable to blacks and that…

This paper uses recent decisions on collective bargaining involving teachers in discussing educational implications under the headings of academic freedom, freedom of speech for the teacher as a citizen, and the teacher as a role-model for students. It concludes that state legislatures should take action to provide a mechanism by which teachers…

This paper reports three studies designed to determine whether children show selective attention and/or differential memory to slide pictures of same-sex vs. opposite-sex models and activities. Attention was measured using a feedback EEG procedure, which measured the presence or absence of alpha rhythms in the subjects' brains during presentation…

This paper focuses on the roles played by internal and external change agents actively involved in the adoption of Personalized Teacher Education (PTE) or its components. Six adoption agents were selected for interviews by a panel on the basis of the number of institutions worked with, number of years in the business, experience with components of…

A pilot project implemented a role-model approach to job transition for disadvantaged cooperative home economics students in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. From 1974 through 1976, 21 students in four urban high schools were matched with role models on the job. Sixteen of these students retained their jobs. The matches included many different…

The author examines how peoples' identification of their real selves either through feelings or actions is changing from an institutional focus to an impulse focus. (Author/DE)

As educators, family life specialists have special obligations to insure that their own advocacy of certain lifestyles does not induce students to attempt those lifestyles without full information on them and the available alternatives. They need to continue to provide role models for students. (Author)

Discusses research on how television affects standards of conduct and behavior. Overall finding is that television is providing mostly innocuous behavioral models for emotionally disturbed children, providing support for the notion that emotionally disturbed children are less inclined than normal children to accept adult or authoritarian figure…

Two peer-imitation training procedures, each consisting of adult-delivered prompts and social reinforcement, were employed in two separate experiments to increase five retarded preschool children's imitation of their four nonretarded classmates' free-play behavior. (Author/DLS)

Examines the influence of both aggressive and nonaggressive models who are successful or nonsuccessful in reducing aggression from an aggressive opponent. Results are discussed in terms of current research and theory in aggression control. (Editor/RK)

The effect of therapist self-disclosure on patients, under induced expectations that disclosure is appropriate, was studied. Results implied that for therapist disclosure to facilitate client openness, a therapist must emphasize disclosure as a part of the professional role and as appropriate for effective psychotherapy. (NG)

Two kinds of videotaped modeling--an expert and a coping model approach--were compared as to the relative effectiveness of each method in reducing beginning counselors' anxiety toward a counseling interview. Those persons who viewed expert models significantly reduced situationally related anxiety following participation in an analogue interview.…