Demonstrates the need for teaching strategies that incorporate the concepts of power and freedom into existing courses. Identifies classroom environments that enable students to make choices as beneficial and describes some strategies for promoting a more democratic classroom. (AEM)

Explores teacher attitudes regarding economics and the environment through telephone interviews with 157 Wisconsin science and social studies high school teachers. Questions attitudes toward market approaches, facts about environmental improvements, and doomsday orientation. Suggests that teachers generally approve of nonmarket solutions and…

Summarizes "Generation X Goes to College" (Peter Sacks, 1996) and critically discusses its main points. The role of postmodern culture and its effect on education form the core of the discussion on contemporary students' approach to higher education. Notes the roles that teachers must play in this new educational environment. (DSK)