Standardized, oversimplified conceptions of behaviors that are appropriate to males and females are called sex role stereotypes. Expectations are formed on the basis of these stereotypes. Traditional notions of sex role are changing as a result of new trends in technology, social organization, and economics. Research indicates that female students…

Article focused on the role of schools in meeting the needs of children, the field of children's mental health, and steps toward the individualized education of children. (Author/RK)

This paper argues that geography teachers should commit themselves to social science programs. The paper concerns the role of geographers as social scientists through a consideration of the concepts classified by David Harvey (absolute, relative, relational). The argument concludes with a statement on the importance of the geographic approach for…

Children of the foreign-born are compared to the children of white, native-born parents on measures of school attendence, continuance, completion, retardation rates, and on the basis of sex ratios. Lastly, the Southern Italians and Russian Jews are considered. (Author/SM)

Explains the Kohlberg moral stages in moral development, discusses the aims of moral and civic education, then describes the continuing experimental work at the Harvard Center for Moral Education. (Author/DW)

Values clarification is defined, explained, and described in the school setting, and the areas of expansion are listed. (DW)

Report of a speech delivered by Dwight Allen in a General Meeting at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, February 1969.

Educational issues need reexamining, according to this author, to find the proper role for education in a new international economic order (NIEO). In the first part of this essay, the author questions older theories of education and development--which saw education as furthering national development by supplying trained manpower--and discusses…

The tenth part of a 10-part series, this report was compiled by the Educational Development Center at Wilkes College. The series deals with various aspects of the treatment of delinquents and is intended as a summary of research findings in each of the areas treated. Each report was prepared by a scholar-practitioner and is presented in a way that…

This study of full-time library students at the George Peabody College for Teachers' School of Library Science was undertaken (1) to delineate why each of the students decided upon librarianship as a career; (2) to determine what effect library-related experiences had upon that career choice; (3) to establish the personal conceptions of the…

RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS INTO ACQUIRED VS. INHERENT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BOYS AND GIRLS WERE PRESENTED. FINDING REVEALED THAT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BOYS AND GIRLS WERE AFFECTED BY THE ATTITUDES OF THEIR SCHOOLS TOWARD THEM AND TOWARD EDUCATION IN GENERAL. SEX DIFFERENCES IN BASIC INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY, ACHIEVEMENT, AND PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITY…

THREE SECTIONS ARE PRESENTED--(1) THE SELF-CONCEPT--BASIS FOR REEDUCATION OF NEGRO YOUTH (2) POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION OF NEGROES--IMAGE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF AND POLITY (3) NEGRO YOUTH AND SOCIAL ADAPTATION--THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL AS AN AGENT OF CHANGE. SOME OF THE ISSUES DISCUSSED ARE--THAT THE PROBLEM IS ONE OF DISADVANTAGED YOUTH AS WELL AS A…