This essay demonstrates how social cartography--the writing and reading of maps addressing questions of location in the social milieu--may enhance social research and move it forward in its struggles to distance itself from the positivistic restraints of modernism. Social cartography suggests an opening of dialogue among diverse social players,…

Attempts to answer what a review of international literature can tell us about the relationships between social change theories and assumptions concerning the feasibility, processes, and outcomes for educational change and how that review could be used to illustrate how conflicting theories of social and educational change can lead to quite…

Objective is to explain how the process of rapid and thorough-going educational change is intricately bound up in the process of radical social reconstruction. (Author)

The effects of recent political and social changes in Hungary on that country's educational system and society and on Hungarian educators are examined. Responses to five interview questions put to 18 Hungarian educators representing the university, secondary, and elementary levels form the basis of the findings presented. The questions were: (1)…

This review seeks to delineate the total range of theoretical perspectives that have been used to support educational reform strategies and to suggest how individual choice behavior follows from basic philosophical, ideological, and experimental orientations to perceived social reality. Part 1 is an introduction. Part 2 typologizes and synthesizes…

Non-formal adult educational programs in Scandinavian and North American popular movements have often been used to advance popular, democractic movements in both areas. Folk schools are often viewed as a panacea for social and educational problems, but as the findings here demonstrate, it is not just education but the mobilization of people around…

This paper presents a review in phenomenological perspective of the diagnostic and prescriptive literature that asks why and how educational reforms occur. The work has three objectives. The first is to search the historical and current international literature for educational reform theories and to demonstrate how these theories are rooted in…

Suggests a typology of ethnic-education programs and examines the Swedish-speaking community in Finland as an example of an effort to control a separate educational program and maintain the separate ethnic identity of a declining cultural, economic, and social elite. (DB)

A partially annotated bibliography of literature dealing with folk schools throughout the world has been arranged under the following heading: (1) philosophical and historical material; (2) folk schools in social movements; (3) area and developmental studies; (4) methods and materials; and (5) related materials on popular education, social…

This study examines a Nicaraguan educational reform movement, initiated at universities located in Managua and Leon, which sought to promote social and economic change and the practical use of the natural sciences at the undergraduate college level. The study identifies major stakeholders in these science reform efforts and their diverse…

Traditional quantitative-experimental models of evaluation have failed to contribute to educational reform; they should be supplemented by qualitative-subjective models, which can be grouped under the rubric of naturalistic, or non-experimental evaluation. This naturalistic approach does not attempt to be value-free; rather, it recognizes that…

The article describes how folk educational programs in the United States and in the Scandinavian countries work toward behavioral and social change efforts. The conditions under which collective change efforts create their own educational programs, the most effective pedagogical processes, and the variables associated with successful attempts to…

The bibliography identifies 179 books, journal articles, and papers published from 1969 through July 1979 concerning educational change, evaluation, and ideology. Arranged alphabetically by author, topics include social change, social science research and national policy, social policy research, politics and educational reform, and ideology and…

The contribution of education to social protest movements within the United States and Canada is analyzed. The purpose of the study was to call attention to educational programs which have succeeded in facilitating social change. The method used was evaluation of advantages and limitations of education through case studies of 28 social movements.…

A typology of ethnic education programs is suggested and a case study is presented where separate education for an ethnic group has been used to maintain and defend a separate ethnic identity. The typology rates ethnic education programs both by degree of normative and structural change being sought and by degree of control by ethnic groups.…