This paper examines the current and changing roles of the school, family and workplace in the development of young people into adults. Due to changes in these institutions, young people are shielded from responsibility, held in a dependent status, and kept away from productive work-all of which makes their transition into adulthood a difficult and…

Educational reforms in higher education since the Cultural Revolution are described. (DE)

Political socialization and worker training in Chinese middle schools since the Cultural Revolution are described. (DE)

This article discusses the "back to basics" movement and points out both its advantages and disadvantages. (CD)

An analysis of the data in this study indicated a sex linked difference in the expressed desire to win at sports with women tending to rate low and men tending to rate high on the orientation toward winning scale. (RC)

The author examines how Asian political leaders are attempting to develop a set of unified shared beliefs among their populace. The task of the historian in promoting this cultural heritage is examined. (DE)

A technique designed to provide an idiosyncratic representation of a client's personal socialization experiences and reanalysis of these experiences from social-learning-theory perspective reveals interconnectedness of cognitions, feelings, and actions that contribute to the client's self-image. A case study illustrating the use of…

The socializing effects of the institutional culture of public schools may be the most powerful single influence in the development of teachers, yet the teacher education profession has largely ignored what happens to its students after they leave college. (DS)

This paper has three purposes: (1) to identify the variables that affect the extent and form of the contributions of schools to nationism; (2) to identify the points at which convergences in the profile and outlooks of students occur; and (3) to evaluate the limits of the schools' contributions to nationism. (Author/AM)

The process of becoming American was accomplished, at least in part and at least at first, by groups of immigrants from the same countries interacting with each other and with the new national system, and with the other groups of immigrants with whom they came into contact. (Author)

College undergraduates were divided into high and low groups on the basis of their scores on a social learning measure. The difference between these two groups with respect to Rorschach M responses (the psychoanalytic measure) was nonsignificant. Apparently psychoanalytic and social learning theorists are referring to different phenomena when they…

Reviews research on possible contributions of role playing, games and sports, and play to the developmental process, e.g., the inter-relationships between play and creativity. (MBR)

Three rationales for affective, school-based prevention activities are to: (1) deter or lessen self- and socially-destructive behavior; (2) enhance cognitive development; and (3) promote maximum total growth, health, and development of each individual. (Author/MJB)

One argument to be made for compulsory schooling is that it imposes a stable pattern upon children existing in a world of turmoil. (MJB)

Social studies is among the newest subjects to emerge in the curriculum. Considers its development within a large local educational authority. (RK)