Second part of an article which appeared in the January 1972 issue of Urban Education," volume 6, number 4. (RJ)

Describes how preschool education in China has changed since the Cultural Revolution, what values and attitudes young children are being socialized to believe, to what extent public childrearing follows the political shifts within China, and how the changes in preschool education have been manifested in teacher selection and training. (NEC)

Focusing on conventional political behavior, this paper contrasts White and Black political activity during the period 1952-1972, with multivariate trend analysis of survey data from six (University of Michigan) national studies. (Author/EB)

Describes reflective spectator judgment with respect to political judgment and rhetorical theory, and then proposes a method of stylistic analysis that may help to identify discursive features enabling reflective spectator judgment. Illustrates these discursive features (described as participatory forms) by performing a stylistic analysis of…

Comments on F. M. Moghaddam's article (see record 2005-01817-002) which uses the metaphor of a narrowing staircase "to provide a more in-depth understanding of terrorism." In the article, "staircase to terrorism," a person will become a terrorist because he or she experiences "injustice and the feelings of frustration and shame" on "the ground…

This second part of a three-part article explores the development of political attitudes and political socialization in middle-class children. (EH)

For an exploration of the components and sources of disputatiousness, Canadian education administrators identified 181 legislators and school board members in 5 regions (British Columbia, Quebec, Prairie provinces, Atlantic provinces, and Ontario) who provided data in interviews. Two coders' judgments of interview transcripts subjected to factor…

In an attempt to explore the press's power to influence its readers and viewers, a study replicated other agenda-setting research using content analysis of the media and a telephone survey of residents of Defiance, Ohio. Subjects, 364 residents (representing a 45% response rate), were asked to grade the mayor on the best and worst things he had…

Patterned after a 1976 study, a study examined voters' decision making during the 1980 campaign for the presidency of the United States. Data from a survey of 183 registered voters indicated that partisan voters were likely to be precommitted to a candidate choice and thus relatively immune to mass mediated campaign effects. However, those voters…

An analysis of political rhetoric from a perspective suggested by the theories of Richard M. Weaver indicates that during the post-World War I and post-World War II eras, the United States experienced interplays of sociohistorical variables that prevented the nation from rapidly returning to a tension-free experience of peacetime living.…

This is a report on a conference on "Students and Politics" held at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan from March 27-31, 1967. The purpose of the conference was to bring together scholars from various counstries who have been doing research on the nature and causal background of university student participation in politics. Some 36 papers…

Focusing on the origins and consequences of group activity, this paper discusses the effects of interest groups on school governance and policy in light of various theories. Data for the study were derived from interviews conducted in 1968 with board members and superintendents in 83 U.S. school districts. Major findings are that the intensity of…

Responsiveness to diverse groups in a pluralistic constituency was assumed to be a crucial consideration related to election to political office. Responsiveness was assumed to evolve from the interaction of two components of self-other orientation, self-esteem and complexity of the self concept. The pattern of self-other orientation found least…