Cites examples of students refusing to do coursework because of religious beliefs. Outlines a method in which students are encouraged to examine their beliefs to illuminate their objections to coursework. Maintains that teachers should resist efforts of individuals who attempt to shield themselves and others from general knowledge and ideas. (KM)

Participation in the Freedom Forum's California 3 R's project enabled The Ramona School District to find workable solutions to contentious religious issues without damaging the integrity of those involved. A sidebar outlines Ramona's board policy on student and staff rights and responsibilities, school calendars, religion in the curriculum,…

Examines caregiver attitudes toward toddler conflict and considers ways to facilitate conflict resolution to promote toddler growth, learning, and social development. Suggests that the ways caregivers intervene often do not promote resolution between children. Presents prevention and intervention strategies and discusses implications for practice…

Uses data from the 1987-88 National Survey of Families and Households to examine whether conflict between parents can explain why children in stepfather households do worse than children in original, two-parent households and no better than children in single-mother households. Suggests parental conflict does not account for lower levels of…

Investigates the association of political violence and ethnic conflict with children's moral orientation. Evaluates two studies of students in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uses dilemmas involving animal and human characters. Argues that results reflect an orientation toward care and concern rather than justice and fairness. Notes there were no gender…

Many commentators have noted that mature students speak of education changing them. One of the most positive outcomes is a heightened sense of self-belief and confidence, which pervades other areas of their lives, not just the academic environment. It is argued within this paper that such research tends to offer a somewhat simplistic account of…

It is well-established that women perform the vast majority of household tasks. This study examined conflicts over the household division of labor. The study respondents (N=140) were obtained from a mailed survey to a national sample of 500 households in the winter of 1991. Of the 140 respondents, 78 were couples. Each household was sent a survey…

This study examined relationships between different types of parental conflict (legal conflict, interpersonal conflict, and specific conflict tactics) and children's divorce adjustment. Subjects were members of 120 mother-custody families, recruited through a search of public divorce dockets, with at least one child between the ages of 6 and 12…

Text in Spanish. Abstracts in English, French, and Russian.

Written in response to the efforts of the Thorpe family to help reinstate Jim Thorpe's amateur status, this article presents cause for reinstatement. (JC)

The paper sets forth criteria for determining when a conflict is genuinely resolved, explains the values underlying integrative framework construction, outlines the theory on which it is based, describes some of the operational principles that accomplish it, and furnishes some illustrative applications. Available from: Journal of Applied…

Discusses the inherent conflict of interest when a clergyperson seeks to be an objective and therapeutic counselor to members of the very group on which he depends for both material benefits and volunteer help. Provides illustrations of this conflict of interest and then examines it in light of codes of ethics of several counseling organizations.…

This essay offers a justification for both the adoption of cultural pluralism as a social ideal and a two-tier model of pluralism which allows for the simultaneous existence of competing conceptions of pluralism. Methods whereby conflicts in beliefs and values in a particular society might be resolved are described. (MT)