The visible signs of patriotism displayed in the United States since the events of September 11, 2001 are at once an expression of pride and a palliative for people's grief and sorrow, an understandable response to a national tragedy. But more important is a kind of less visible patriotism that calls for fidelity to the values and principles for…

This book offers an ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in California and Texas. It illustrates cases where language is used by speakers to choose between alternative self-definitions and where language interacts differentially with other defining categories (ethnicity, gender, and…

This report presents the effect of immigration on family cohesion, specifically the relationship between parents and children. It draws on 5 years of fieldwork in one New York City immigrant community to describe how the generation gap separating immigrant adolescents from their parents, made wiser by the immigration process, leads these children…

A growing number of educational programs seek to promote young people's participation in political and civic affairs. A common strategy for doing so is to provide students with opportunities to make a difference in their communities. Much research demonstrates a strong connection between a person's sense about making a difference efficacy and the…

This study examined the role of the administrator education internship in perpetuating the gap in relationships between teachers and administrators. It explored the moral socialization that teachers in pre-service administrative preparation programs experienced while engaged in administrative internships, examining the messages that administrative…

After distinguishing between sex-role typing, socialization, and identification, a sample of male and female adults were grouped according to their sex role and socialization pattern. It was noted that sex-role typing for men appears to expand the personal options available to them; for women, sex-role typing seems to restrict the alternatives of…

This survey shows that sex-role stereotyping exists in teachers' expectations as well as in teachers' attitudes. One of the most striking findings was that while teachers believed that there was equality between boys and girls, sex-role stereotyping appeared in almost all areas in the classroom. (CS)

The experiences of a careers education class, using curriculum materials developed by the Schools Council, Careers Education and Guidance Project, are described. (JH)

This study compared the perceived parental behavior characteristics of 41 counselors in training and 33 fifth-year engineering students in a test of Roe's vocational choice theory, which suggests dichotomous pattern of vocational choice: "toward persons" or "toward nonpersons" categories that are determined by the nature of early childhood…

The comparative effectiveness of an aversive stimulus, withholding of resources, withdrawal of love, and reasoning, when used alone and when combined with praise, was assessed in a standard laboratory punishment paradigm with first and second grade children. (CS)

Presents and tests a theory which specifies the conditions under which adolescents shift their valuations between three sets of reference sources--fathers, mothers, and peers; the thesis incorporates components from four interpretations of parent--adolescent cleavage, summarily entitle Push, Pull, Selective Attachment, and Drift. (Author/JM)

Considers programs of teacher competency that will cause effective teaching to be developed. (RK)

This paper discusses the importance of popular images for school structure and roles, and attempts a systematic theoretical recasting in terms of a constructive typology. (Editor)

The sexuality of exceptional persons is examined in relation to changes in social attitudes and reasons for providing sex education and guidance. (MC)

Assessed the effect of Kagan's Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) on group work and compared it with a T group method. The IPR groups showed significantly greater change in individual and group interaction factors. High-self-esteem subjects showed no difference between methods. The self-confrontation of IPR was beneficial to the low-self-esteem…