The following hypotheses were tested: (1) children who attend open classrooms have smaller personal spaces than children attending traditional classrooms, and (2) personal space is a socially learned phenomenon which may be increased or decreased as a result of watching proximate or distant teacher-child models. (Author/BJG)

Law has been neglected as an area of inquiry in citizenship education. Fundamental to citizenship education is the teaching of the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights in elementary and secondary schools. The bicentennials of these documents will be celebrated within the next decade. Law-related inquiry could enrich the…

A study examined whether television's stereotypical portrayals of men and women affected children's sex role preferences. The subjects, 105 fifth and 70 eighth grade students from a predominately black urban school in the southern United States, were assigned to see one of three versions of a videotape of a family drama in which male and female…

The list of recommended attitudes, concepts, and skills described in these reading education guidelines provides the basis for certification of reading personnel, development of college and university programs in reading education, ; Program Construction roles, self-assessment of persons in reading education, and evaluation of the performance of…

Various studies have been conducted to inductively locate the aspects of occupation in one generation which are transmitted to the next generation as found in corresponding aspects of their labor force aspirations and entry levels. This study restricted attention to intergenerational covariation in components of roles rather than to the structural…

Findings from a study comparing the effects of segregated versus mainstreamed preschool settings on handicapped and non-handicapped children strongly suggest that mainstreaming is the preferable alternative for all types of handicapped preschool children. Initially, handicapped children in both segregated and mainstreamed settings were found to be…

After nearly 14 years of non-Indian administration, Laguna Elementary School (LES) has acquired a principal and a teacher supervisor who are not merely Indian, but of the Laguna Tribe itself, making LES the only school in the Southern Pueblos Agency with Tribal members as administrators. At first glance the situation is ideal, but there are…

Two differing viewpoints on the socialization of student teachers are presented in this review of the literature on the subject. The functionalist view places the student teacher in a passive role, shaped by childhood experiences, and influenced by peers, pupils, cooperating teachers, supervisors, and the structure of the school environment. The…

This study investigated the attitudes, beliefs, and behavior of Canadian and American children in terms of television viewing of sports, preference for professional or amateur sport models, and proportion of violent to nonviolent television viewing. The written opinionnaire items used in the research determined: 1) demographic information on…

A migrant child is one who has moved with his family from one school district to another during the preceding 12 months so that a parent or other immediate family member might secure employment in agricultural or fishery activity. In California, the 92,000 migrants living in 48 of the state's 58 counties include Chicanos, Mexican Americans,…

The guidelines on leadership development for urban 4-H Clubs contain two brief introductory sections: the first, rationale, presents definitions of the roles of volunteers, professionals, and paraprofessionals in 4-H Clubs; the second, purpose and objectives, explains the principles behind the curriculum. The section on curriculum format is…

The oral literature of the Navajo people generally falls into two categories: the sacred stories and the folk tales, which often, but not always, point a moral. Sacred stories relate the Navajo's emergence history. These stories tell how the universe holds two kinds of people: the "Earth Surface People" (both living and dead) and the…

In April 1971 the Ontario Educational Communications Authority evaluated its simulation game "Operation Moonvigil", an action and reflection process for students in grades five through nine, designed to allow them to discover how and why institutions come into being and interact with individuals. Questionnaires were distributed, student…

A reliable instrument was developed to assess the value orientations of individuals toward four basic epistemological dimensions concerning the perceived nature of knowledge, the learner and learning activity, and the purpose of schooling. Earlier research has shown these four dimensions discriminate between curriculum materials and instructional…

The rapid growth of educational research and development in America has widened the gap between average classroom practice and "best available" validated practices resulting from research and development at educational laboratories, universities, and school-based practice improvement projects. The extension agent system was chosen to change the…