Educators interested in community education have a perspective similar to that of modern anthropologists. Therefore, anthropologists should work with educators in the reorganization of institutions involved in education and socialization. (Author/EB)

Psychodynamic, social learning, social psychological, and sociological theories on child abuse are reviewed and the research evidence supporting these theories is discussed. (Author/EB)

The role played by the Black family in the self-concept development and achievement orientation of Black children is discussed. Also examined is the role teachers can play in maintaining and reinforcing these values in adolescents. (MC)

Presents a study testing the hypothesis that more conservative values are a function of exposure to televised sports. Conservatism is used as a criterion variable to represent a composite score of other political values studies including authoritarianism, nationalism, value restraint/need-determined expression, equalitarianism, individualism and…

Four articles discuss work completed by the two-year Project SPAN. The first two articles present broad ideas about the current and future status of social studies, the third outlines major recommendations, and the last presents a social roles rationale and framework designed to increase student learning and interest. (Author/KC)

Describes a project intended to help high school students personalize their school environment. The program emphasizes positive social reinforcement, positive peer pressure, interaction with administrators and teachers regarding school problems and solutions, and peer counseling during homeroom. (DB)

The author describes the socializing process of role modeling and the different experiences of males and females. She defines and analyzes the mentor relationship and its impact on career development, presenting a model of career stages. The lack of mentor relationships for women and possible solutions are also discussed. (Author/ SK)

The author maintains that traditional knowledge and curriculum has been male-centered. Work in women's studies fills in the absence of women's perspectives to create a more fully human knowledge. Adult education's emphasis on learner control can contribute to the construction of woman-centered learning. (SK)

Describes a new instrument designed for brief administration, to be educationally relevant, and to measure five domains of adaptive behavior: language development, independent functioning, family role performance and economic-vocational activity, and socialization. An initial study indicates the instrument has high reliability. (Author)

Discusses the reproduction of gender-related insufficiencies by the organizational assymetry of family structure, whereby children of both sexes are predominantly mother-reared; and current challenges to the traditional, logical positivist paradigm in socialization research by a paradigm more congruent with a concrete, historical, and relational…

Sixty-four university art students identified themselves as "art student,""marginal," or "professional artist" and provided information on age, sex, art and academic experiences, and parental factors. Consistent with the professionalization model of occupational socialization, all these factors, except parents and years of formal art training,…

Lev S. Vygotsky's concepts of social, egocentric, and inner speech are explained, and two of Vygotsky's basic arguments are reviewed: (1) that these forms of speech are dialogic; and (2) that cognitive functioning can be explained by its surrounding social foundations. (GDC)

Occupational socialization refers to the process by which a new member to an occupation becomes acquainted with the culture of the occupational group. Problems related to teacher training are essentially problems related to occupational socialization. (JN)

This study examined how a group of kindergartners anticipated and actually experienced school. Interviewed in July, before starting kindergarten, then again in April, the children were asked to describe their own and the teacher's role, activities they engaged in, and what rules or constraints on child behavior existed. (Author/SJL)