In looking to the future, some writers on religious education (RE) have attempted to evaluate current approaches to the subject. Some have characterised any significant change in approach as a "paradigm shift", a term derived from Thomas Kuhn's work in the philosophy of science. This article examines the uses of the terms…

This paper argues that the standards agenda works in opposition to the inclusion agenda despite government rhetoric, which suggests that both agendas are complementary. The paper emphasises the need to embrace a broader understanding of what constitutes "achievement" in order to enable all learners to experience success. In developing…

In March 1978, under the suggestion of Chinese-born Nobel Prize laureate Tsung-Dao Lee, China launched its first gifted education program at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Based on nominations and interviews, 21 gifted students aged 11-16 were enrolled in USTC and comprised a special class. Five years later, the early…

In his 2008 bestseller, "The Post-American World," Fareed Zakaria argued that the most significant development of the early 21st century is not, as others have predicted, the inevitable decline of the United States as the world's super-power but rather "the rise of the rest." In subsequent works, Zakaria and many others,…

When Ellen Condliffe Lagemann described what she called the troubling history of education research, she claimed that, in the early years of the twentieth century, Edward Lee Thorndike's narrow model of science replaced John Dewey's more open ideas. According to Lagemann, sexism was an important reason for Thorndike's triumph. In describing the…

Discusses the history of the educational voucher concept and describes three voucher models: the Jencks "regulated compensatory" model, the Friedman "unregulated market" model, and the Coons "Family Power Equalizing" model (more recently called the "Quality Choice" model). (JOW)

The study of the history of education has tremendous import for the development of the discipline of educational administration. As a result of the emergence of a new paradigm for educational administration, influenced by existentialist phenomenological thought, historians of education can make administrators more aware of their world. (Author/JM)

This article focuses on the development of the Transforming Community Project, which draws staff, students, and faculty into discussing the history of race at Emory University and in the United States. The project's creation followed a difficult year of racial strife and suspicion at Emory that was unprecedented in its recent history. The strain…

In her response to Elvira Panaiotidi, Janice Waldron says that Panaiotidi makes a strong case that MEAE and praxialism represent, respectively, the poesis and praxis strands of the Aristotelian conception of art and that, consequently, one cannot conclude that the two accounts are ontologically incompatible. In this article, Janice Waldron, wishes…

Explores the possibilities of a hermeneutic model of composition history by examining a text which has been omitted from the received narratives of the discipline: an inaugural address written by George Robert Carlsen, president of the National Council of Teachers of English, entitled "The State of the Profession 1961-1962." (PRA)

By revisiting the work of the Black Caucus and the radical rhetorics connected to Black Power and the black radical tradition, in this essay the author hopes to rebuild a frame where the picture of an African-American-vernacularized paradigm for critical literacy and social justice can emerge. She revisits the twinning of "Black Power/Black…

Uses the writings of Monroe, Cubberley, Bailyn, and Cremin as vehicles for the study of T. S. Kuhn's views on progress, paradigms, and theory choice. Considers the idea of progress in the discipline of education and its relation to the metatheory of history. (DMM)

Indicates a desire and need to construct an elaborately detailed and historiographically sophisticated model that would effectively account for the complexity of writing center development and history. Critically examines two models currently in use, the "evolutionary" model and the "dialectic" model. Offers a cultural model of writing center…

Identifies five "paradigms" which have been dominant in comparative education from the 1950s to the 1990s. The current paradigm addresses the interrelation between universalism and cultural pluralism. Comparative education should find a fruitful balance between world-system theory and the theories postulating that cultural diversity will…

Challenges the "reductive" two-phase description of Writing across the Curriculum programs. Notes that Phase I has usually been described as expressivist, while Phase II has been described as social constructionist. Suggests that this inattention to intellectual traditions leaves the movement vulnerable to attack. Proposes an…