Educational reforms in higher education since the Cultural Revolution are described. (DE)

The authors discuss the results of a survey which collected data on female candidacy for city council offices and on election victories. Questionnaires were mailed to 838 U.S. cities with a population of 25,000 or more. (Author/RM)

Results of a study which explored how children acquire ideas about capitalism suggest that economic socialization progressively orients children to a favorable view of capitalism and structured social inequality. (Author/EB)

Student teachers must be taught new ways to cope with bureaucracy, while effecting purposeful changes in the status quo. (Editor)

Suggests that individuals may differentially identify with and learn from media presentation in terms of whether the images are structured as real or fictional events, and that, independent of the inherent real or fictional structure of the given events, the television format has a fictionalizing capacity in and out of itself. (JMF)

Children who are developmentally disabled are more often handicapped by a lack of social skills than by intellectual limitations. The pilot program described here improved the psychosocial functioning of such children by involving them in one-to-one relationships with caring adults. (Author)

The article presents the implications of social class differences in schools, and points out how teachers and counselors often respond inappropriately to student behavior because they misunderstand social class factors. (NQ)

Examines the difficulty which the limited scope of Mary Louise Segeul's history, contained in The Curriculum Field: Its Formative Years, poses for an understanding of the development of the curriculum field and suggests the outlines of a more adequate curriculum history. (Author/RK)

A program to encourage cooperative play and social interaction was successful with six of seven physically handicapped children in a nursery school setting. (DB)

This paper is an attempt to build a theoretical model which specifies the impact of certain cognitive variables on the process of political socialization. (Author)

At the age of six Russian children are taught to sing "We all love Lenin". But how effective is this kind of socialization in the long term? Author reflects on a recent visit to Russia. (Editor/RK)

Confronts questions raised about the Montessori method concerning socialization, creativity, permissiveness, and emotional development. (MS)

The author discusses the process of moral development and offers ideas and practical suggestions which will help elementary teachers further their students' moral reasoning. The socialization process at the secondary level is also discussed. (Author/RM)

This paper describes the attempt to Canadianize Toronto's Macedonians, and the response of the early Macedonian community to the churches, schools, and health officials who were the agents of that attempt. (Author)