Music education research today continues in well-worn paths. While it may be productive in quantity, it is not clear the degree to which it informs current music teacher education or has produced advances in teaching practice. Indeed, as some critics of university-based teacher education research have argued (e.g., Boyer 1990; Schwandt 2005), such…

Considers the ways in which the media constructs and represents information, particularly in relation to subjects defined by class, race, or gender. Compares conceptions of the "public" by John Dewey and Walter Lippmann with current postmodernist thinking. Recommends that citizenship education incorporate a critically-oriented media…

Examines three themes about the relationship among class origin, education, and class destination in 10 industrial nations. Finds that the patterns of association between class origin and education and between education and class destination are similar across the nations. Presents implications for the study of comparative macrosociology. (CFR)