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Peer reviewedMerelman, Richard M. – American Political Science Review, 1980
The author defends his position that American schools fail to socialize students to democratic values. Available from The American Political Science Association, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036. (IRT)
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Political Socialization, School Organization
Peer reviewedMerelman, Richard M. – American Political Science Review, 1980
Addresses arguments about the "hidden curriculum" of the schools and outlines the conflict between democratic politics and "the basic shape of schooling." Available from The American Political Science Association, 1527 New Hampshire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036. (IRT)
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Political Socialization, School Organization
Peer reviewedMerelman, Richard M. – American Political Science Review, 1973
Politicization helps produce coherent, though not necessarily mature, policy-thinking styles. The findings indicate the need to investigate policy thinking further. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Economically Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedMerelman, Richard M. – Youth and Society, 1977
Findings indicate that advanced moral judgment and potentially radical political beliefs came together in mid-adolescence. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Activism, Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedMerelman, Richard M. – Comparative Education Review, 1975
Author attempted to describe the school's efforts at maintaining the particular pattern of social class relationships characteristic of an industrialized society. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Diagrams, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedMerelman, Richard M. – Sociology of Education, 1972
Descriptors: Adolescents, Change Agents, Educational Innovation, Parent Influence
Peer reviewedMerelman, Richard M.; Foster, Charles R. – International Review of Education, 1978
The theoretical framework proposed here treats political alienation as a normal outcome of the incompatability between egalitarian goals and social inequalities in democratic systems. The framework is applied to the role of education in the United States, a stable democracy, and in West Germany, an emergent democracy. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Democratic Values, Developed Nations, Equal Education
