Examines liberal education within the framework of continuous education, mainly from the standpoint of goal analysis. Elucidates on the aims of informal" education and the arguments for it in relation to formal education. (RB)

Results failed to substantiate the notion that firstborns are more sensitive than are later borns to the socialization efforts of authorities. (Author)

The author contends that the sexual revolution" is not yet with us. He notes that the findings stress that the majority of normal adolescent subjects move slowly in the direction of heterosexuality. (Author)

Explores the inconsistency in societal expectations for American males from youth to adulthood. (AJ)

A Young Children's Social Desirability Scale based on the MMPI was constructed and administered to nursery school children. Results showed that social desirability scores increased with age, showed a low positive relationship to picture vocabularly IQ, and were unrelated to sex in a high socieconomic sample. (KJ)

Summarizes conditions in the primary schools that suggest the appropriateness of using simulation games and describes the People GRID and Living Together Series for developing learning about the real world and the skills necessary for effective participation in it. (EAO)

The social-cognitive problem-solving approach is presented as a means for ensuring social and affective development of handicapped and nonhandicapped children in public schools. A television-based instructional format to facilitate children's social and affective development is described, and an actual example of a television-based instructional…

Argues that bibliotherapy can be used to help children develop reading comprehension skill and to use that skill to understand their own personal and social development in a better way. Provides a list of books suitable for bibliotherapy. (FL)

Drawing on the experiences of several countries, the author describes satellite technology, discusses the feasibility of satellite use in traditional educational institutions, and analyzes the role of satellites in social development. (SK)

Sets forth a theory of social development (represented by Maslow), a theory of moral development (represented by Kohlberg), and then synthesizes these theories to develop a set of student needs and teaching techniques for each stage of social and moral development. (CT)

Didactic instruction and role play training appeared to produce generalized increases in vocationally oriented social skills for four emotionally disturbed adolescents in a residential program. (CL)

A sociological framework is presented for analyzing the role of sport in modern society in terms of the social functions sport may be providing. These include emotional release, affirmation of identity, social control, socialization, social change, collective conscience, and success. (JMF)

For developmental social psychology to be clinically practical, it must use categories of experience similar to categories that counselors, clinicians, and other practitioners find useful. Describes how individuals may function at different levels depending on the context in which they are expressing their understanding. (Author)