Reexamines Gunnar Myrdal's "An American Dilemma" (1944), which argued race relations in America would improve because the American Creed of democratic liberalism created a dilemma between existing racial prejudice and the national ideology. Describes how Myrdal's deterministic perspective robbed civil rights historiography of its drama…

Major aspects of political education in Zimbabwe (Africa) as they have developed from the colonial period through the Chimurenga, or war of liberation, to the period following independence in 1980 are explored. The focus is on political themes such as power, inequality, community, and ideology. (RM)

Competing theories on differences in rates of political participation and joining of voluntary organizations by Blacks and Whites are tested, using data from a 1967 national survey. Results support the ethnic community theory, contradict the compensatory theory of Black participation, and do not support the isolation and cultural inhibition…

Russian and Soviet studies specialists see long-term threats to the field's continuing strength with the sudden decline of private and public funding. Some potential problems are identified: narrowed language offerings, declining enrollments, and a history of politicization in Soviet studies. The use of Soviet emigres is advocated. (MLW)

States that the political socialization process leads citizens to perceive little opportunity for personal participation in international policymaking, despite the local impact of international affairs. Describes how local international links of community organizations can lead to citizen participation in foreign policy, citing an international…

Describes a political socialization model which applied social conditioning principles to the understanding of political attitudes. Findings show political attitudes depend on positive responses to persons in one's environment. Journal available from Manning J. Dauer, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida,…

Describes the effects of government intervention in Uruguay's universities and public schools. Teacher education, curriculum change, student and teacher behavior; education funding; research funding; research activity; and scientific teaching are discussed as to the effects of government intervention on them. (Author/DS)

Statistically examines the impact of an overseas political science program on student attitudes about world-mindedness, support for the United Nations, self-esteem, and tolerance of ambiguity. A substantial degree of change occurred only on the self-esteem variable. (Author/CK)

Describes impressions of Chinese education from an August 1978 visit and the changes in the educational system since 1949, when the communist party came to power, to increase political study, practical learning, and manual labor. Individual development is only a means to the goal of national growth. (MF)

Notes that news media use has declined in recent years, particularly among young people. Offers a critical review of research on the changing role of journalism in political socialization. Evaluates calls for popular alternatives to conventional forms of news and for a postmodern conception of citizenship and the public sphere. Concludes that more…

Recounts the dialogue between U. S. and Soviet members of the Allied Kommandatura Education Committee (AKEC) in post World War II Berlin regarding the formation of a new history curriculum for German youth. Concludes that the history curriculum accord represented a U.S.-Soviet desire to use schools as a means of denazifying Berlin youth. (SLM)

Presents a comprehensive plan for restructuring the intermediate grade curriculum. Emphasizes hands-on training, extracurricular activities, and vocational and physical education. Includes eight tables detailing weekly time allotted for core and elective courses throughout the grades. Emphasizes the need for active, vigorous young people to lead…

Expresses the belief that the worse social and cultural circumstances become, the more desperately and dangerously reactive formal education tends to become. The author argues that liberal arts teacher education can, in the case of true professionalism in education, be a stabilizing influence by offering sound judgment, judicious flexibility, and…

Explores the exercise of institutional and ideological power over rap music and fans, how artists and fans respond to that context, and the complex relationships between rap's political economy and the sociologically based crime discourse that frames it. Rap's poetic voice is a political expression of the Black experience. (JB)

Studied possible relationship of political socialization during youth to the personal values of adulthood. Also studied influence of adult values on one's ideas about socialization of next generation. Of particular interest were societal mandates in China during the 1950s and 1960s. Parental values were found to reflect, in a general way, values…