Because children are subjected to undesirable and confusing socialization messages from peer networks and the media, schools are now paying more attention to students' social development needs. To counter schools' hidden curriculum and help students cope with stress and avoid serious interpersonal difficulties, an eight-step Improving Social…

Presents findings on relationships between Black children's self-perceptions, their achievement, and teacher's perceptions. Reports that factors influencing Black student achievement are not as singular or as insular as previous research has suggested. (KH)

Explores the relationship between educational crisis and cultural crisis. Maintains that cultural change must come from within a society as well as from carefully adapted borrowing. Educational innovation must be a part of this process. (JDH)

Thirty boys and thirty girls in each of four age groups evaluated fathers' discipline techniques over a range of situations in which a culprit was described as having transgressed. The techniques consisted of induction, physical punishment, love withdrawal, and permissiveness. Evaluations were determined more by the nature of the child making the…

Discusses the nature and dynamics of conservatism in relation to the politics of education. Argues that, because the state has replaced society and the workplace as the locus of class struggle, implementation of conservative educational and fiscal policies face barriers created by popular resistance and failures within the New Right itself. (KH)

The sex-typed and sex-neutral activities of 54 preschoolers and their peers' negative and positive responses were recorded during free-play periods in three mixed-age day care classrooms. Each child was observed for a total of 100 minutes of peer interaction. (Author/RH)

This article explores the purposes, methods, and future directions of social-skill training research from the perspective of a cognitive-social learning explanation of behavior change. Research findings are reviewed with respect to important or promising variables, their hypothesized function in behavior change, and their effects on children's…

Explores the relationship between adolescent lifestyle and the development of autonomy. Suggests that the expansion of the high school system with its emphasis on continued dependence, and the rise of the market economy emphasizing economic independence, create potential discontinuity in adolescent socialization. (JAC)

A study that continues research by other investigators into the effect of pharmaceutical education on student perceptions of occupational roles is discussed. The focus was on whether experiential training was related to the disillusionment of pharmacy students with their chosen occupation as originally identified by Knapp in the 1960s. (MLW)

Epileptic children may have physical and emotional needs which can interfere with learning and socialization. Current prevalence estimates, definitions, and classifications of epilepsy are surveyed. Factors affecting the epileptic child's school performance and specific learning problems are addressed. Specific roles are presented for school…

Explored origins of individual differences in infant shyness by studying its relationship to parental shyness, sociability, and introversion-extraversion. Full adoption design examined role of both genetic and family environmental influences as possible etiological factors in development of infant shyness. Results indicate genetic influences and…

The nature of distance education is to shift the locus of curriculum control toward the institution and its staff and away from the students. This imposes a responsibility on the institution to examine and evaluate the values and assumptions underlying the decision-making and the implications of the patterns of control that emerge. (Author/MSE)

The possible effects of mothers' beliefs about sex-typed behavior on children were investigated. The results suggest that mothers' sex-typed beliefs particularly affect daughters. Low sex-typed mothers may socialize their daughters to be more active, to play more, and to be more responsive and comfort-seeking. (KH)

This 1955 paper, using data from former Soviet citizens, investigated the role a parent plays, through both conscious and unconscious adjustments in his child-rearing practices, in mediating for his children the influence of social change and, consequently, in preparing them for changed social conditions they may meet as adults. (CMG)

The verbal interactions of adult males and females with trained girl and boy confederates were compared in two situations, structured and unstructured. Women did not respond differently to the child's gender in either situation, but males spoke more and at greater length with boys than with girls in the unstructured situations. (Author/KH)