Presents an interview with Black educator, Elma Lewis, founder of the National Center for Afro-American Arts. The interview covers Lewis' early childhood education, family background, and Black cultural background. Lewis describes her vision for the Afro-American Center, its current financial problems, and her perception of the role of art in…

The teacher's role in guiding children toward understanding and appreciating the values that govern people's behavior, attitudes and perspectives is discussed in this article. (Author/MP)

Posits that the basic system of values and beliefs held by adult educators influences their stance on social problems. Examples of responses to the problem of poverty illustrate four basic ideological positions: liberalism, conservatism, liberal radicalism, and Marxism. (JOW)

Intrinsic (or fundamental) values and the freedom to choose among them are discussed in terms of cultural pluralism. (JMF)

The teachings of the Victorian Sunday school reflected an evangelical subculture that had become comfortably adapted to the world around it. The social values of the middle and lower classes took their place beside traditional virtues of piety, charity, and honesty. (Author/KC)

Analyzes "Taxi,""Barney Miller,""Lou Grant," and "M*A*S*H" in terms of three fantasy themes: the realization of significant others, the alliance in action, and membership into personhood. From these themes emerges a rhetorical vision of the new humane collectivity. (PD)

The opinions of Laszlo Hetenyi on teacher unionism are examined in the light of the writings of William James and John Dewey. (JD)

Investigates the gap between human impulse and moral action and the thesis of this research is that within that gap there is an intervening variable of the human will which must be reckoned with before moral education can result in social improvements. (Author/RK)

Two competing theoretical planning models and alternative views of the values shaping globalization form the background for a discussion of some of the curricular issues facing educational planners. (Contains 37 references.) (PKP)

A discussion of the what, why, how, and when of bilingualism links it to biculturalism and demonstrates that effective psycholinguistic studies of bilingualism must consider the interaction of language and social structure and the functionalistic-communicative trends of linguistics. 28 references. (Author/CB)

Discussion of social role valorization theory in the context of normalization of people with disabilities focuses on the relation between social roles and consequences. Value systems such as religion are needed to determine whether and why other humans should be valued or devalued and which means to this end are morally defensible or imperative.…

This commentary suggests that individuals' perceptions of mental retardation may be at least partially the result of social factors. Interactionist/phenomenological theoretical tenets are summarized to develop the view that mental retardation is socially constructed. The influence of values in how society treats people with retardation is briefly…

Investigated self-sufficiency in older widows (n=300). Found ability of widows to accomplish traditional female tasks was related to health, education, age, and work history, whereas for male tasks it was related to income, living alone, and work history. Concludes society that overvalues independence may unwittingly create pressure on elderly to…

The simultaneous publication of Steven Johnson's Everything Bad is Good for You and appearance of media reports of X-rated content in the popular game Grand Theft Auto has renewed controversies surrounding the social effects of computer and video games. On the one hand, videogames scholars argue that videogames are complex, cognitively challenging…

Social scientists have suggested that all societies adhere to certain universal values. One form or another of the Golden Rule, for example, appears in all cultures. It may follow that, if we want to rise above cultural relativism, we might adopt values that humans seem to share and agree on already. The author of this article dismisses various…