Observations about academic reform movements against a background of Erich Fromm's philosophies on human relationships and behavior. (Editor)

The belief that sororities have a differential effect on the attitudes and values of their members was not supported by this study. The results indicate that attitudinal and personality changes over a four year period were similar for the sorority girls and independents. (Author)

Speech presented at the 54th annual NASSP Convention. (EJS)

Students' value orientations with respect to education are compared with orientations they perceive as being stressed by their parents. The responsiveness of orientations at both generational levels to sex and status influences is analyzed." (Author)

This section presents the varied viewpoints of nine physicians, from the areas of pediatrics, child psychiatry, student health services, and psychoanalysis, on the controversial issue of sex education in the schools. Opinion is divided, and those who do feel positive toward the question urge extreme caution and reevaluation. (CJ)

Discusses ways of developing critical thinking ability, using the theme of a book as the organizing principle. Bibliography. (MD)

Paper presented at the Dallas meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the section on "Comparative Sociology and Contemporary Social Issues, December 29, 1968.

The social context of the debate over liberal education is discussed in terms of the pressures on deans to phase out underpopulated fields of study, the pressures on educators to produce measurably competent graduates for an ever more technological economy, and a general questioning of liberal and humanistic values. (MLW)

To investigate whether Chicanos and Anglos show the same progression through Kohlberg's general levels of moral reasoning, 169 second through ninth graders--selected controlling for age, grade level, socioeconomic status, IQ, sex, and religion--were presented five video-taped moral dilemmas and were administered a derivation of the Defining Issues…

Contemporary theories about the nature of modern bourgeois culture are reviewed briefly, and the contradictions of that culture are stressed. Christopher Lasch's criticisms of American schools in "The Culture of Narcissism" fail to recognize that self-liberating practices may stimulate intellectual growth. (PP)

Argues that behaviorism and humanism are incompatible, and any attempt to blend them is to deny the intellectual or practical existence of humanism as a theory of behavior. Humanistic theory must be recognized and application models must be designed and tested in school, childrearing, personal relations and leadership theory. (JAC)