Cynicism stemming from the unequal social and economic positions of the French and English inhabitants of Montreal is expressed strongly in the literature of Gabrielle Roy, Gerard Bessette, Paul Chamberland, and others. (CHK)

This paper reports an empirical test of the effect of cross-national television on viewers' attitudes and cognition. Findings indicate that cognitive effects were stronger than attitudinal effects, and cognitive and attitudinal effects toward the sending country were stronger than toward the receiving country. (Author/EB)

This article discusses the Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust (CCLET). For many years, the CCLET has been in the business of working with teachers, teacher-candidates, students in grade two through university, and even with those in law schools, to engage them in making choices about controversial issues. CCLET proposes a structural approach…

The present study seeks insights from current school activists on the tendency of educators and others to engage in denial and avoidance when discussing issues surrounding racism, and how that affects the daily work on social justice projects in schools. The author outlines contemporary and historical aspects of the denial of racism in Canada, and…

There is concern among second language educators in Canada that male students are losing interest in studying French as a second language (FSL). In response, in the fall of 2003, a study was conducted to investigate gender differences in second language (L2) motivation among Grade 9 core French students. Building upon the traditional model of L2…

Effects of preaching, recipient deservingness, personality attractiveness, and sex of subjects on pledging and donating behaviors were investigated with fifth and sixth graders. Findings are discusssed in terms of (1) saliency of stimulus object and children's stereotyping of the elderly; (2) children's conception of relationship between…

During the 1930s in Canada, teaching and research in the universities were conducted in the belief that truth was attained only through free inquiry, rigorous criticism of competing theories, and the deployment of arguments untainted by dogmatism and appeals to authority. Problems that university scholars had when they were outspoken in their…

A study compared sociosexual attitudes of 31 adults with developmental disability, 15 with autism, and 16 with mental retardation, and 25 typical Canadians and 28 Americans. Most differences were contributed by the individuals with mental retardation who endorsed significantly fewer than 50% of sexual activities presented. (Author/CR)

The purpose of this research was to test the assumption that a student's conformity with the achievement value expectations of the school depends on congruence between institutional expectations and individual value orientations. (Editor)

The hypothesis of this Canadian study was that attitudes toward authority of French-English bilinguals would differ from the attitudes of French and English unilinguals toward authority. Student subjects responded to questionnaires using Likert scales to measure hostility, acceptance, anxiety, and neutrality toward authority. Analysis of variance…

This report to the Canadian Government from the Nova Scotia Women's Task Force examines the social issues and problems pertaining to the women's movement in that province. Discussions are provided on the situations and attitudes toward homemakers, working women, marriage, divorce, child care, education, health, and political participation.…

Describes a Disability Awareness Program sponsored by the Ontario March of Dimes. The program consisted of visits to 59 Canadian schools in which a blind woman and a woman in a wheelchair spoke to students and answered questions about disabilities. (JAC)

Outlines research into teenage viewing preferences which was undertaken prior to production of a television series for CITY-TV, Toronto. The series is designed to attract as large a teenage audience as possible, and to promote "socially responsible" attitudes. The resulting effects on instructional television programing design are…

Investigated attitudes toward suicide and death across two intrafamilial generations to better understand possible causal factors underlying increasing suicide rates among the young. Findings indicate support for the hypothesis that the youthful generation holds more "accepting" attitudes toward suicide and death than does the parental…