ABSTRACT
A sweeping educational reform had been implemented at both federal and provincial administrative levels. The effects of this reform had just begun to surface at the Schonhausen Grundschule during the author's 1968 field study. Sex differences within the 1968 sample were highly significant, with females choosing modern instrumentalities more frequently than males. An examination of the Instrumental Activities Inventory (IAI) responses for all teachers in 1977 showed little change from 1968. As cultural agents the teachers can be characterized as pragmatic and moderately conservative, seeing both advantages and disadvantages to most instrumental relations but appreciating the values of the small community and the countryside. Comparisons of the distributions of IAI responses for older students show the same general trend towards more traditional choices for the 1977 sample, but the responses are less consistent, and the differences less marked. The realities of instrumental choices in an urbanizing environment have forced themselves upon the consciousness of these young people.
