A sample of 380 urban, suburban, and rural persons living in the Province of Santiago, the Dominican Republic, were interviewed to determine their attitudes toward education. A 15 statement attitude instrument, using a Likert response scale, was developed. The major findings of the study were that attitudes toward education were significantly…

A Pilot Phase of an evaluative study of adult basic education was included to develop and evaluate data-gathering instruments to measure sociopsychological variables bearing on levels of, and potentials for, adjustment; to describe participants and nonparticipants by these measures and assess changes over time; and to examine changes in potentials…

The paper approaches the problems of lack of communication and the development of stereotypes that have grown up between vocational teachers and counselors. Developing a strategy to deal with a portion of the problem, counselors' perceptions of vocational education, a program was conducted during the summer of 1972, placing counselors in skill…

Foreign workers, particularly those who have been in Austria for a long time, are already included in training and other educational programs promoted by the labour market administration. Regulated by a 1972 decree of the Federal Ministry of Social Administration, vocational training of foreign workers is steadily gaining in importance in Austria,…

Under the impact of electronic immediacy the world is being reorganized in sensory terms toward the primacy of the audile-tactile. In the educational system, emphasis remains on traditional methods of logical (visual) and sequential learning. The effect on literature is an increased interest in the spoken, as opposed to the written word. Through…

This paper highlights the expressed educational attitudes and learning orientations of students who participated in a recent eight-college pilot study (total N = 4279). The Student Orientations Survey (S.O.S.), a ten-scale inventory developed by R.M. Gray and this writer, was used in this project in order to assess student's attitudes towards…

The project was developed to identify the factors which affect the vocational-technical program choices of Millcreek Township School District secondary pupils having the options of an academic program with vocational electives or a dual program of academic subjects in the home school and more intensive training in a vocational-technical school on…

The dissertation traces the history of the organization and development of the Illinois Home Economics Program from its inception at the University of Illinois to the 1950s; and analyzes influences of social order upon the administrative structure and programs and an adult educational institution. Sources of data include annual reports, files,…

The inner city child is described, and the differences between his school and that of his middle-class counterpart are contrasted. The author lists what he has frequently found to be affective constraints of recalcitrant inner city students: (1) poor school attitudes; (2) anti-societal (middle class) values; and (3) negative school perceptions.…

This study was conducted in an attempt to analyze selected aspects of the social milieu surrounding elementary school children. The relationship between the two techniques used in measuring this social environment was also of interest. Fourth and fifth grade students' affective reactions to the following stimuli on both techniques formed the data…

A review of the available research relevant to the characteristics of disadvantaged rural students shows them to be affected in several areas. The low socioeconomic status of large numbers of noncorporate-farm families and rural ethnic minority groups is a characteristic of prime importance, particularly in view of the relationship between…

This assessment of the politics of education is an attempt to clarify the kinds of political commitments of educational agencies through discussion of labels, concepts, classificatory schemata, and general conceptual frameworks which allow a person to bound his experience so he can organize it in a manner that is coherent with his physical…

The object of this study, conducted in a Northern California city school district, was to find evidence of cultural value conflicts experienced by Mexican American secondary school students of low socioeconomic background. Those students experiencing the most difficulty in adjusting to the school setting and thus most likely to be dropouts were…

THE EDUCATIONAL GOALS AND PLANS OF ADOLESCENTS (GRADES 9-12) IN FOUR SOUTHERN STATES WERE EXAMINED, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO NEGRO YOUTH. NEARLY 16,000 BOYS AND GIRLS FROM 17 COUNTIES IN ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, NORTH CAROLINA, AND VIRGINIA WERE SURVEYED BY MEANS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE. FOR MANY OF THESE STUDENTS, ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION…

Takes issue with two concepts of teaching art history in elementary and secondary schools, reveals selected resources which are readily available for teaching art history, and makes recommendations for the implementation of art history programs where they do not exist and for the improvement of programs where they are to be already found.…