Investigated the usefulness and the methods for combining vocational interests and work aspect preferences. Results indicated the Vocational Preference Inventory has greater discriminatory ability than the Work Aspect Preference Scale. Implications for counselors are given. (Author/BL)

Describes how the textile mills established in Lowell, Massachusetts, during the 1820s served as showplaces for American industrial progress and reformist social values. Their utopian purpose was to demonstrate that good working conditions could reinforce desirable moral values in the mill workers. (AM)

Values and benefits derived from the study of American history have changed over the years. Historians must more adequately describe the principal benefits to be obtained from the study of American history and consider ways in which history instruction can be revitalized to help those benefits to be realized. (CJ)

Two frameworks--cognitive dispositions (derived from critical theory) and cognitive structures (derived from cognitive science)--for analysis of values are outlined and used to critique taxonomies of values developed for general, adult, and vocational education. A combined approach is then proposed and exemplified for vocational education. (MSE)

Presents a lesson plan exploring social values and historical periods as it is reflected in the sport of baseball. Suggests that teachers start with an overview of the game's history and rules in the nineteenth century. Includes four sets of quotes relating to baseball and race, capitalism, community, and cultural context. (DK)

Schools in England and Wales now operate within paraphernalia of a market system. Universalist, collectivist orientation of comprehensive education is being eroded by the development of a diverse, selective, competitive, and atomistic school system. This article summarizes results of interviews with 15 secondary headteachers concerning the market…

Study examines interaction between ninth-grade readers' (N=72) social desirability concerns and comprehension of text that does or does not violate social values. Results reveal that comprehension scores increased with reading level, and were lower on paragraphs that violated social values. Students with higher social desirability concerns had…

Introduction: The importance of values education in current society continues to be one of the greatest challenges to our Educational System. Its pertinence becomes no less than inexcusable when we speak of education in social values during adolescence, or, during "Educacion Secundaria Obligatoria" ["N.T." Mandatory Secondary…

The values-in-conflict approach is emphasized as an effective method for developing student understanding of social problems. For journal availability see annotation SO 504 171. (Author/DE)

Some of the most popular teenage novels perpetuate the sexual double stanard. (JH)

Research has indicated that increasing autonomy to incarcerated youths results in greater acceptance of institutional treatment goals and less support for an inmate counterculture. To examine different processes by which autonomy might affect individual outcomes, 430 youths in four Michigan boys' training schools were surveyed. The questionnaire…

Describes a study to determine whether instruction in general semantics would reduce ethnic prejudice in high school students and to create a course of study in general semantics which would cause a reduction of ethnic prejudice. (TO)

Eight representative 7th and 8th grade social studies textbooks prescribed by the Saskatchewan Department of Education were subjected to content analysis to determine their value orientations. Results indicated that the values of wealth and power received greater quantitative treatment than the values of affection, skill, rectitude, and…

Argues that the "just community" approach is the best available values education program for meeting the primary goal of feminism, in the elimination of injustices due to sexism. Suggests that educational policies and practices be examined to expose the social and value structures of schools. Describes the social and values structures of…

Examines the three-way relationship among sports, the British military, and the English public schools during the nineteenth century. Describes the public school system prior to and following the reforms of the Clarendon Commission in the late Victorian period. Finds the reforms ending certain hardships of school life, while increasing…