Crosstabular analysis tends to show that the streaming system is inversely related to absenteeism and dropping-out, even when intelligence, age, academic performance, and type of school are considered separately. A path analytic model conforms to the crosstabular analysis. The streaming system remains associated with both absenteeism and…

A unique choice to assume local control of schooling is now available to Canadian Indians. This description of the beginning of one such undertaking illustrates how the unanticipated emergence of pervasive role shock inhibits the expected positive results from autonomous local control of schooling. (Author)

Focuses upon recent concerns with student self-concept as an illustration of the difficulties in relating social science research to educational policy and practice, reviews early research into self-concept, and traces the subsequent impact upon schooling. (Author/CM)

Familiarizes educators and researchers with a method to develop curriculum according to the individual cognitive styles of individual students. (Author)

Results indicate that systematic efforts to create positive attitudes toward police among high school students through lectures, discussion, a ride-a-long program, and an incarceration program were effective, especially when coupled with experiential activities and follow-up work carried out in Law XI classes for grades 11 and 12. (CM)

Teachers conducting more open programs and/or teaching in architecturally open schools had significantly more positive attitudes towards education, teaching, pupils, and educational innovation than did teachers conducting less open programs and/or teaching in architecturally closed or partially closed schools. This apparently reflects more…

Ontario secondary teachers were more favorable in 1977 than 1974 towards collective bargaining but showed significantly less support for sanctions, especially striking. Still, if their interests were seriously threatened, they would strike. Teacher sex and length of Ontario residence were significant predictors of militancy. (Author/SB)

Canadian children follow an apparent sequence in the development of a concept of nationality from a verbal level of understanding of geographical relationships (beginning about age six), to an ability to demonstrate spatial relationships, then to an understanding of one's nationality, at about age 10. There are important educational implications.…

A study of regular and advanced secondary math students indicates that higher achievement in regular classes is associated with teacher-centered instructional methods and the attitude that math is a closed, fixed system. In advanced classes these relationships are reversed. Results cast doubt on the validity of some IEA scales. (Author/SB)

Wealth consists of internal and external goods which are not free and which endow people with a perceived potential for yielding happiness. Curricula can overstress outer wealth orientation and neglect or disregard inner wealth orientation, causing imbalance between the liberalizing and vocational arts provided by the educational system.…

Transforming leadership, which develops shared goals and values, and transactional leadership, which seeks compromise and consensus, are both necessary for organizational change. If administrators are to become leaders, improved training programs must be aimed at both practicing and prospective administrators. (Author/CM)

Describes the political, ethnoreligious, and economic forces which influenced the introduction of compulsory education in Manitoba. (CM)

Compares two methods of teaching in two grade seven science classes in Ontario (Canada) that illustrate how students can attain different sets of objectives while mastering the same subject matter topic. Shows how different sets of classroom events can be interpreted in terms of differing curriculum emphases. (Author/LC)

Historically, educational theory has been closely related to major movements in the socio-political-economic structure. It is proposed that education in the future will need to consider the concepts of change, conscious awareness and cooperation in the context of a concern for survival of humanity. (Author)

Examines the relationship of moral education and community of commitment (agreements of concept, judgment, practice) on which programs of moral education depend. Examines alternative schooling as a means of moral education. (Author/LC)