Scope and Method of Study: The overall purpose of the study was to describe the perceptions regarding how AAYAF over 16 years of age plan and make career decisions. The study participants included ten AAYAF over 16 years of age. The young women were interviewed fact-to-face using a semi-structured open-ended questionnaire. The questionnaire was…

Students with strong executive function skills hold the keys to school and social success--from attention and impulse control to time management and organization. Now K-12 teachers have a practical, highly readable guide to enhancing these critical skills for "all" students, with and without learning disabilities. Through the author's memorable…

According to the "fragmentation objection" to multiculturalism, practices of cultural recognition undermine political stability, and this counts as a reason to be sceptical about the public recognition of minority cultures, as well as about multiculturalism construed more broadly as a public policy. Civic education programmes, designed to promote…

This paper offers a historical overview regarding the nation state aspect of Norway because of its dramatic influence in curriculum making. The study examines aspects of the Norwegian national curriculum identity related to curriculum structure, to the underlying principles and consequent form those principles will take in the curriculum, and to…

This collection of readings was first assembled in order to bring together materials for a course at Wayne State University focusing on the conditions of change and conflict in the political socialization process. The first chapter, Learning and Development, concentrates on the mechanics of this learning process. The next five chapters The Family,…

Paper explores the degree to which the socialization of core values is a function of family as opposed to generational influences. Two value dimensions that characterize the range of choices from which respondents made value judgments are identified. (Author/AM)

This report is a brief account of the author's 1968-69 postdoctoral fellowship activities at Harvard, studying the bearing of social science literature and methodology on the history of education, particularly with reference to historical patterns of socialization. Specific products to which reference is made include two papers: "Childhood in…

This paper attempts to trace the historical and societal development of sex roles as related to women in today's society. Discussions include the role of the female in tribal societies, the development of monogamous marriage, and the societal influences which identify a woman primarily as a housewife and mother from the 16th-20th centuries.…

During the Gilded Age, a period of great apparent social change and of intellectual and economic insecurity in the United States, several popular children's periodicals published a type of conventional, domestic fiction which reveals the tensions and anxieties felt by a social group organized by a particular social ideal, namely the traditional…

Suggests that the dedication of the early twentieth century Jewish immigrant to schooling produced amazing results in a relatively brief period of time. Jews looked on the public schools as their ladder from the ghetto to the university. (Author/AM)

The authors argue that incidental learning--learning that is picked up through social interaction--is an important learning resource, though it is often not recognized as such by learners. Emphasis is on education for the unemployed. (Author/CH)

The mentor-protege relationship contains many elements of other important human relationships. Mentoring is described within the framework of Buber's I-Thou theory. Steps to encourage such relationships are given. (JL)