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Rury, John L., Ed.; Cassell, Frank A., Ed. – 1994
This book addresses the educational challenges of the 20th century, such as the right to search students' lockers for guns and drugs, by examining the Milwaukee, Wisconsin school system as an example of how these challenges have affected the politics of education, the curriculum, the work of teachers and principals, and the everyday lives of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Demography, Educational Change, Educational Environment
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Hinkel, Eli – TESOL Quarterly, 1994
Considering the complicating effect of cultural differences in writing conventions, this study examines discourse tradition as influenced by Confucian/Taoist precepts and those of U.S. academic environments, the latter requiring rational argumentation, justification, and proof. Pedagogical implications of native-speaker and nonnative-speaker…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Confucianism, Cultural Context