Academic administrators are in need of principles and conceptual frameworks for planning and evaluating responses to social issues. Hence, the major purpose of this paper is to outline a conceptual framework for academic planning and evaluation related to social issues. Following a review of the significance of the changes during the sixties, a…

Public thinking and writing about literacy in recent years has served to confuse and mislead. Facts which support the "decline in literacy" belief and facts which support the opposite view are presented. Phases and statements made publicly about literacy are discussed and placed into four categories: those which use syntax to posit…

Twenty-three "social effect" concept statements were investigated in this study dealing with advertising's portrayal of married life; vanity, sexual, snob, and fear appeals; the use of black models in ads; product puffery--conformity to other's social lifestyles; and over-the-counter drug advertising. A questionnaire was mailed to 393 Atlanta,…

The author focuses on a number of key issues which appear to be common to a variety of alcohol treatment programs which have as their intention the amelioration of alcohol problems. The aim in this paper is to call attention to these issues and to discuss their implications for the manner in which health care workers think about alcohol problems,…

Traditional forms of psychotherapy have dealt with helping the client change in order to better cope with society. This speech suggests that another form of psychotherapy would encourage the therapist to work to change society. The author contends that since social conditions are often the cause of psychosis, social conditions ought to be the…

This paper discusses a new structure for understanding the communication process--a structure that reflects the trend toward reorganizing knowledge along the lines suggested by an ecological perspective. The paradigms that exist in the field of communication are discussed, and the inability of most of them to cope with the full range of…

This paper discusses the development, application, and implications of a statistical technique--a concordance index--for measuring the restrictions and constrictions (legal and societal) which inhibit individual decision making and adapting behavior. It was found that as sophistication sets in there will be less and less tolerance of these…

Adult education in Sweden is closely interrelated with the prevailing ideology in that society. The predominant ideology in Sweden consists of firm and active commitment to lifelong learning, achieving the 'learned society', socioeconomic and political democracy, full employment, individual growth and dignity, and overall egalitarianism. Welfare,…

Worldwide restricted roles based on gender and imposed by culture diminish girls' self-esteem, undermine their ambition, and limit their potential. Girls and young women move towards adulthood in social systems that negatively affect them educationally, psychologically, and physically. This paper describes "Horizons: 2000," a unique developmental…

Recent emphasis on discourse in mathematics classrooms has spurred a line of inquiry about different forms of talk in these settings. If mathematical thinking is understood to be a set of practices that includes mathematical discourse, argumentation, which has an especially important role in mathematics, requires analytic attention. In particular,…

Written in 1934, develops the notion of a scientifically constructed secondary school curriculum based on the study of social trends. (GC)

Presents a unified concept of test validity that integrates both the scientific and ethical considerations of test interpretation and use. Argues that the appropriateness, meaningfulness, and usefulness of score-based inferences are inseparable, and that this integration is based on construct validity. (FMW)

The world of educational quality in 2006 is infused with conflicting ecopolitical agendas that constitute evidence of social strain and what Cherry Banks (2006) calls the tension between unity and diversity. That tension is increasingly prevalent among growing multicultural communities where centuries of inadequate educational funding have created…

This presentation is based on two essays by the author (P. K. Jamison): (1) "Providing Alternative Views of Contexts, Instruction, and Learning in Graduate and Continuing Professional Education Courses in Instructional Development"; and (2) "How Is Instructional Development a Social Practice?". The first essay presents a critical inquiry,…

In "Discourse in the Novel," M. Bakhtin notes that writing and speaking are both fundamentally social acts--every utterance "exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions" until the writer/speaker is able to appropriate it as her own. As an institution, the writing center enacts…