Social and emotional learning and character education are complementary approaches to strengthening a person's ability to understand, manage, and express the social and emotional aspects of life and to organize action in a positive, goal-directed manner. This book is designed for administrators who need help in introducing programs to their…

This paper describes briefly the path of political socialization research over the past 40 years; discusses "Project Citizen," a civics program for adolescent students, and the implications of recent research on it; and comments on the current state of political socialization research. Contains 12 references. (BT)

The chapters in this book examine the complex intersection between "the white supremacist realities of the American Academy and the presence of brilliant black men in the Academy." The chapters are: (1) A Message from Our Elders (Lee Jones); (2) The Data Speak: No Rest for the Weary (William B. Harvey); (3) The Psychological Dilemma of…

This paper addresses the personal challenges academics face in successfully responding to the call for academic leadership, focusing on the organizational socialization process of a new dean. A 3-year qualitative case study of one dean is presented. It involved data from a personal daily journal of activities, beliefs, and reflections kept over 3…

The key notion of the perceived environment is discussed in terms of its role in achieving an analytically useful conceptualization of human action and its relation to personality. Data from a longitudinal study of the socialization of problem behavior in youth illustrate the utility of the concept. (Author/KM)

A test administered to normals, delinquents, and felons appears useful for noting proneness to delinquency but not for discriminating degree of delinquency. (Author/KM)

We should welcome books of healthy propaganda, but let's recognize them as just that and not make them the mainstay of our children's reading diets. (CH)

It was predicted and found that social desirability was a significant mediator of locus of control-achievement relation for females. Results were interpreted within a cultural role model theory. (ST)

Teachers are advised to attempt to understand all the things that could be going on behind that blank face at the back of the room--to learn from what the street people say and what they do not say. (JB)

This paper focuses on a comparative analysis of the normative and empirical elements of four approaches to political education. The findings generally demonstrate that each approach has dramatically different normative and empirical implications for political education. (KM)

The voices of school are the voices of people experiencing that special balance between autonomy and conformity. Author considers the need for autonomy and privacy in education. (Author/RK)

This article presents Camus' resolution to the issue of man's need and search for a meaningful and continuing personal identity as well as implications for the educative process. (Author)

The concept of political culture has provided a promising way of incorporating psychological insights into the study of political systems; progress in the use of the concept calls for effective means of describing total systems and for identifying critical factors in improving the ability to understand and predict'' system performance. (Author/JB)