Explores how individuals evaluate political issues by using various inputs of political information (conceptual differentiation) and how they organize ideas and information in terms of abstract or ideological constructs (conceptual integration). (Author/DB)

This article addresses the relationship between insurgent political action and state-supported social services, with particular emphasis on the relationship between urban riots and welfare. Findings from analysis of activism and welfare since the Second World War indicate that urban riots played an important role nationally in short-term expansion…

Presents an historical analysis of the socialist revolution of 1917 which brought Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power in the Soviet Union and led to the establishment in Russia of a communist government. (DB)

Reflects on criticisms most frequently leveled at public schools in America, including that they don't encourage gifted students, generally gear classes toward below average students, and neglect cultural continuity. Suggests that builders of new proschool coalitions must be more than politicians responding to majority pressures. For journal…

Reviews the philosophical and theoretical foundations of cost-effectiveness analysis and describes some of the ethical assumptions and implications that are embedded in, and result from, the use of this economic analysis technique. Considers how the social and political contexts of health-related decisions affects the usefulness of the results…

Reduction in defense expenditure may also result in reduced technological research effort. Some 10 million workers in manufacturing worldwide are dependent on military orders. Much depends on switching production to civilian markets or a transition from manufacturing to services. (SK)

Discusses four major challenges to the field of educational technology in the late 1980s: (1) a theoretical challenge from cognitive science; (2) a technological challenge from information technology; (3) a political challenge from the Left; and (4) a moral challenge from radical critics. Ways that educational technologists should respond in the…

Introduces a set of companion essays that examine reviews as a mode of inquiry. Explores the practice and outcomes of reviews in their political and conceptual contexts as research methodology and considers what a review is, what it reveals, who benefits from a review, and the actions implied by review findings. (SLD)

Since the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, the European Union (EU) has supported lifelong learning policies and reform of the training systems of member states. However, the fundamental role of the EU as a reference point for development of national vocational policy has not been sufficiently recognized and acted upon. (SK)

Compares developments in lifelong learning in the 1990s, especially its emergence on government policy agendas, with its origins in the 1960s-1970s. Shows that the lifelong learning rhetoric about educational opportunities has become a justification for reducing public resources, creating new inequities. (Contains 43 references.) (SK)

Analysis of the political aspects of adult education reveals multiple ways of examining policies, programs, and practices. Five key issues form a framework for analysis: politics of diversity, whose interest, material conditions and control, accommodation and resistance, and strategic thinking. (Contains 69 references.) (SK)

Education in general and educational administration in particular are functions of the interplay of social, political, and economic forces operative in society. Although the Commonwealth Caribbean consists of 16 unique and sovereign nations, these nations are sufficiently similar socially, culturally, politically, and economically to permit this…

The insights of 12 foreign scholars and language scientists into the battle over making English the "de jure" official language of the United States are presented. The opinions come from England, Canada, the Philippines, the People's Republic of China, Australia, Belgium, India, and the Federal Republic of Germany. The consensus of these…

Presidential campaigns in the last decade have provided evidence of the rising influence of the mass media campaign and of campaign consultants. The media, through their power of access to the people, manipulate the public's recognition of a candidate by the amount of coverage given. Newspaper endorsements and the reporting of media-conducted…

An examination of the role of journalists in the political process suggests that although there has been some reflective analysis by journalists on the potentially distorting consequences of routine news procedures, most journalists seem reluctant to acknowledge any such distortion. An analysis of the media coverage of two political scenarios (the…