Reviews C.A. Bowers's book, "The Promise of Theory: Education and the Politics of Cultural Change." Summarizes Bowers's central arguments concerning modernity, the relation of schooled knowledge to the nature of all cultural knowledge, and usefulness of the sociology of knowledge to improving instruction. (KH)

Presenting a new theory of work role transitions, a conceptual framework for analyzing and predicting modes of adjustment to transition is outlined. Includes a list of references. (MD)

A triple-contract model of the relationship between a profession and a society includes a hypothetical contract articulating the profession's basic principles, a second contract suggesting the model for real-life face-to-face meetings creating moral terms limiting the relationship between professionals and society, and a third contract containing…

Challenges Benbow and Stanley's claim that boys are naturally better than girls at mathematics. Presents data counter to this conclusion and assesses the impact of the media's coverage of the Benbow and Stanley report on parents' attitudes. Concludes that math aptitude is strongly determined by parents' stereotypic beliefs. (KH)

A study conducted at a institutional dormitory for 32 profoundly retarded adolescents and preadolescents assisted by nine attendants supported the value of rearranging the traditional personnel structure to provide a slightly lower staff-resident ratio and assigning more comprehensive responsibilities to particular attendants. Improved training…

The use of sports in the German Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of China is both propagandist and ideological. International sports competition can enhance the country's image and domestic sport is a means of political socialization. (DF)

A model presidential nominating convention gathered 4,000 students from three states in May 1984 and selected Gary Hart as the Democratic nominee. Preconvention training prepares students to run the convention themselves while learning the political process in action. (MD)

Presents counseling goals in a developmental continuum similar in concept to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Discusses ego development goals, socialization goals, developmental goals, self-esteem goals, and self-realization goals and describes characteristics and implications of the continuum. (JAC)

Peasants dispossessed by economic and social change in 16th-Century England created a crime wave in London. In response, Bridewell Prison was established on the premise of rehabilitation: teaching inmates a trade and developing useful work and social habits. (SK)

An attempt is made to describe the overall general process of moral development as consisting in the movement from heteronomy to autonomy through a period of socialization into conventional norms. Using Kohlberg's developmental model as a reference point, the implications for moral education in schools are elaborated. (Editor/RK)

Examines the differences in interpersonal relationship orientation between students identified as stars and as isolates. (Author)

This conceptual paper uses the author's observations and experiences, along with the relevant literature in the field to argue critically for the introduction of entrepreneurial studies in senior secondary schools (S S S) in Ghana. The argument is cast within the framework of career socialization theory, which proposes that the decision to adopt a…

Small classes in grades K-3 boost student academic performance in all subjects and in prosocial behavior. Results are both short- and long-term. One study explored the theory that a major cause behind improved academic achievement involves improved student behavior, which increases student engagement in the classroom. Two other studies provide…

This report on the process of graduate and professional student socialization provides information that can be of use to graduate program faculty and administrators, professional associations, state legislatures, and professional licensing bodies charged with assuring clients that well qualified professional practitioners are being prepared in the…