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Peer reviewedGreen, Logan – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1979
Investigated rural high school students' perceptions of two major secondary school role models' (teachers and popular peers) solutions to five ontological and axiological problem spheres. Some seemingly contradictory findings are discussed in terms of institutional demands that often force teachers to model behaviors that neither they nor society…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, High School Students, Role Models, Rural Schools
Peer reviewedNagel, Liza; And Others – Health Values: The Journal of Health Behavior, Education & Promotion, 1995
Reports a study that examined the value hierarchies of adolescent groups categorized by tobacco use (nonusers, experimenters, and heavy users). Surveys of rural 7th-12th graders indicated significant differences among the 3 groups' value priorities in areas including health, family security, and a world at peace. (SM)
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Secondary Education, Secondary School Students, Smoking
Download full textMayton, Daniel M. – 1989
Values are a central concept in understanding and predicting human behavior. Value priority differences have been shown to predict important political, social, and economic attitudes and behaviors. The purpose of this study was to identify differences and similarities among the value hierarchies of adolescents who have never tried alcohol,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Differences, Drinking
Peer reviewedTemirov, N. S. – Russian Education and Society, 1997
Explores the value orientations of the rural school students of Uzbekistan by asking the students a variety of indirect questions, such as what their favorite motto in life is. Finds that these students were concerned mostly with social, moral, and spiritual values. (CMK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Religion, Rural Education
Hensley, James – 1979
Based on a survey of seventeen Kentucky industries which revealed common problems of the rural worker, this project attempted (1) to design and field test a vocational development program that will increase the knowledge base concerning the economics of industry in the rural vocational student and (2) to design and field test a curriculum…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Career Planning, Dropouts
Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Office of Governmental and Public Affairs. – 1977
This booklet provides information on corn and hog farming on a small farm through a profile of a farm family. According to the profile, John and Mary Miller and their three children are a comfortable family operating a corn and hog farm in Iowa. John, the principal farmer, uses a variety of skills in management, veterinary science, soil science,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Skills, Animal Husbandry
Dunne, Faith – 1980
Rural high school girls face a strong home-versus-career conflict stemming from traditional rural values and myths about women. They also face the reality of few local job opportunities, due to rural economic and value structures and to occupational sex-stereotyping. For the most part, rural secondary vocational education maintains its…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
