Discusses how President Clinton's view of citizenship is flawed, leading to his attempt to recast big-government programs, such as AmeriCorps, as instruments of individual and community empowerment. The debate over school lunch funding is offered as an example of Clinton's refusal to turn over power, responsibility, and resources to local control.…

Eleven preservice technology teachers kept journals and participated in life history and follow-up interviews that elicited their backgrounds, attitudes toward teaching, and experiences. It appeared that flexible and well-delivered teacher education can help students examine and possibly change their values, beliefs, and attitudes. (SK)

Comments from Blustein, Eldredge, and Hesketh on research reported by Feij et al. on the role of proximal and distal context factors and the theories of organizational socialization and work adjustment. A rejoinder from Feij et al. clarifies some of the issues. (SK)

Interviews with 50 student nurses and survey data from 81 over the course of their undergraduate careers showed how they moved from a lay to a professional image of nursing. They remained idealistic but were realistic about nurses' role and the constraints of the hospital system. (SK)

Home schooling neither isolates children nor harms their academic growth, but approaches the true definition of education: the passing down of culture. Public schools have redefined family values and often fail to take religion seriously. Home-school parents see the family as a superior social institution; many value religion's cultural…

Reports findings from interviews of 389 Nso parents or grandparents. Found that traditional values were widely endorsed but that mothers, parents, and urban respondents expressed less indigenous viewpoints than did fathers, grandparents, and rural respondents. Also discusses topics related to the socialization, learning, and social interaction of…

Professional associations are providers of updated and extended professional knowledge, builders of frameworks for enacting knowledge in practice, and change catalysts. Their roles are influenced by their content area, association structure, external linkages, and members' work organizations. (SK)

Interviewed Alice Honig on: sex role socialization research findings over the last few decades, the role of women in society and as mothers, sexuality, and the need for respect and support for the mothering function. (DR)

Considers social construction of youth phase, noting that transitions to adulthood in Great Britain are completed biographically sooner than in comparable continental European countries. Relationship between formal qualifications and occupation-entry conditions is relatively flexible. British young people tend to attain financial independence from…

The theory of Wilhelm von Humboldt concerning the role of the university is discussed, focusing on four imperatives regulating its activities--unity of research and teaching; the empirical sciences; science and socialization; and science and universal enlightenment. The current status of the university is assessed in relation to these ideals. (MSE)

Examines parent-school involvement research by exploring socialization patterns that foster high achievement and describing the structure and effectiveness of parent involvement programs across the U.S. Children's cognitive development benefits from programs that disseminate child development information to parents and help parents further their…

The influence of anger on mothers' judgments of children and socialization was examined in a 5-week study of 48 mothers of 6- to 8-year-old children. Findings provided evidence that angry mothers expect their children to act more negatively, thereby supporting the proposal that anger may negatively bias parents' reactions. (SH)

This article identifies key issues in gender communication including gender as a primary social category; how to best understand gender; the role of gender stereotypes in communication; and socially created gender differences. Ethnographic research methods are seen to be particularly appropriate for investigating gender communication. (DB)

Four case studies of British adolescents describe their application of social theories to political, social, and personal issues. The studies imply that political reasoning does not develop separately from other domains. Discussion of the concept of lay social theory precedes the case studies. (BC)

Examines the increased emphasis in former Soviet vocational secondary schools on general education. Calls for a reexamination of the content of secondary education. Argues that schools should promote student socialization and professionalization of the content of general education. Refutes suggestions that differentiated instruction harms…