This study investigated the effects of sex of child, age, rationale focus, rationale orientation, and maturity of moral judgment on resistance to deviation in 120 children (7 to 11 years old) using the standard punishment paradigm. Children were randomly assigned to a consequence- or intentions-focused rationale with an object or person…

A descriptive analysis of the socialization techniques and values for aggression of a sample of 188 parent sets from a southern Appalachia county was described. The parents were at a lower class occupation and income level. Data were collected by interviews in the home. The 57 separate items in the mother interview and the 40 items in the father…

The papers presented in this volume were prepared for the ninth national conference of the Australian Association of Adult Education. The Conference was mainly a gathering of professional adult educators from Australian departments and institutions created for the purposes of adult education. The education of adults on a voluntary basis and…

Communications technology that is or will soon be available can help create better opportunities for mass discussions about public issues. The hardware and software prerequisites for such discussions are: capacity to address participants, facilities for real-time dialogue between geographically dispersed groups, continuous feedback between…

New ways are needed for a citizen to participate actively in meaningful discussions of political issues. Telephone and cable television (CATV) facilities may help bring this about. For example a group of representatives could discuss some proposal for an hour and it could be broadcast over CATV or even radio several times during the day. Citizens…

The role of ideology in mass media practices is explored in an analysis of the relation between the Paris Commune of 1871 and the Shanghai Commune of 1967, two attempts to translate the philosophical concept of dictatorship of the proletariat into some political form. A review of the use of Paris Commune imagery by the Chinese to mobilize the…

This article analyzes the overall purposes and content of Soviet military and patriotic education. The emphasis is on duty and defense of the fatherland. (DE)

The potential and successes of Soviet literature is recreating the war years for the younger generation is outlined. (DE)

The importance for rural Chinese schools to train laborers in socialist consciousness and culture is emphasized. (DE)

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

Educational reforms since the Cultural Revolution are described. A comparison between education in the city and countryside is included. (DE)

Using a longitudinal study of a national sample of white males, this study clarifies how socialization is related to mobility in educational and occupational attainment. (Author/DE)

The authors, after interviewing a group of female subjects, found that parents, peers, school, formal institutions and the nuclear family were the main factors responsible for the specific sex-roles women have at present. The authors stress the role of counselors in changing traditional views of women's sex roles. (SE)

Argues that children learn that story worlds are orders of reality distanced from immediate experience and recognize that a story is "only a story." (AA)

An understanding of the social realities of teaching combines a social systems understanding of teaching as a profession with a description of the dailiness of teaching as an activity based on experience. A framework for utilizing these understandings in staff-development/school-improvement programs is presented. (JMF)