Research on the acquisition of sex roles in the United States has indicated a tendency for parents to treat girls less harshly than boys and for fathers to treat girls with more special warmth than they do boys. Eighteen children and their parents were interviewed and observed in Oslo, Norway, as part of a longitudinal study of parental influence…

This study has analyzed selected aspects of Jamaican culture--education, religion, and family relations--in order to present suggestions for the church's adult education programs. The family is basically maternally oriented and marked by a predominance of early nonmarital sex relations and a lack of consistent intimacy and faithfulness in…

This guide is one of a series of Education for Parenthood manuals developed by the Salvation Army for use in programs to prepare teenagers for parenthood or for child care careers. This volume outlines a course in parenthood education for teenagers in Salvation Army camps. The 12-unit program is intended for use with a group of 12 to 15 camp…

This model was used to investigate cultural factors which influenced the development of a good relationship between neighbors from different ethnic groups in a multi-ethnic housing project in a Northeastern city. Three hundred Chinese, black, white, and hispanic families were studied. The results of the study suggested that the cultural similarity…

This book on human sexuality is a testbook which was conceived, written, and designed by teachers for teachers. It is divided into four sections, the first three of which are designed to acquaint the teacher or future teacher with basic information and concepts related to sexuality. Section 1 serves as an introduction to sex education and…

This is the final report of a project initiated in August 1974, designed to determine the feasibility of the home as a learning center. The report is written for the practitioner, the family-living and occupation teacher, teacher educators, and nonformal community educators. Five major sections comprise the final report. The first section presents…

This workbook for children in the primary grades contains three sections of rhymes and activities about family members; the community's houses, shops and streets; and the schoolroom and its equipment. An individual activity accompanies each rhyme. The workbook is designed to strengthen the child's knowledge of his environment and his language by…

Prepared under a Title IV Civil Rights program grant, this document consists of social studies units for grades 1 and 4, suggestions for a culturally oriented arts program, biographical sketches of cultural models, and brief historical sketches of communities in the area of Los Lunas, New Mexico. The purpose of the units of instruction and related…

A comprehensive program for elementary and secondary health education is presented. The program is structured to promote affective as well as cognitive learning and centers on (1) understanding the human body and learning how to care for it, (2) understanding what it means to be man or woman, and (3) understanding the forces in the physical and…

The handbook outlines a course of study in social studies on the kindergarten level. The overall course objective is to teach children that people everywhere have certain basic needs and wants, and that how people meet these needs depends upon their environment and cultural level. Questioning techniques are used throughout the course. Questions…

This is a bibliography of books, periodical articles and pamphlets on population and family education which are available in the library of the Population Education Clearing House Service of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Asia, Bangkok. Most of the documents cited were published in the 60's and 70's with the exception of a few which…

Central in the development of this book is the issue of stability and instability in the family life of black people. A background section on the social facts of family life, which for the most part includes historical, demographic, and ecological data, is presented. Additional chapters discuss: (1) how marital stability can be used as a social…

In determining whether Spanish usage is a valid indicator of ethnic identification, 669 Texas high school sophomores (3 Negroes, 70 Anglos, and 596 Mexican Americans) were interviewed. Mexican American respondents were then isolated on the basis of response to 4 questions, and their responses regarding family were grouped under 2 headings: (1)…

This research was designed to serve two major purposes: (1) to create a substantial library of theoretically neutral observational data as permanent documentation of actual life experiences in the lives of 3-year-old children from different socioeconomic backgrounds and (2) to analyze specimen records in order (a) to describe and quantify the…

Several social-psychological and cultural variables such as husband-wife interaction patterns, level of aspirations, time-orientation, degree of traditionalism/cosmopolitanism and perceptual outlook--all known to be correlates of family planning acceptance and family size norms--are examined in this study of a Filipino enclave in Waialua, Oahu,…