Focuses on the social and cultural implications of research. Underlying social research are assumptions about the nature of social control, the order and responsibility of society. Theory and methods give legitimacy to educational and cultural patterns, and function politically and ideologically. The author stresses the responsibilities of…

As long as attendance remains the chief avenue to schooling credentials and these credentials remain prerequisites to jobs, social compulsion will remain more dominant than legal compulsion. (JD)

Examines data gathered from a survey of literature, observations, and interviews conducted during a 1985 trip to China. Specifically focuses on changes in Chinese education as influenced by politics, economics, and social values. Includes a comparison of similarities and differences in current Chinese and U.S. education. (BSR)

A commentary on the emergence of an age beyond industrialism which paints a new vision of industrial enterprise and which evolves around challenges to American core values which reflect a new quest for individuality and for personal enhancement through continuous learning. Three major challenges are described followed by suggestions for the new…

Paper presented at the Dallas meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the section on "Comparative Sociology and Contemporary Social Issues, December 29, 1968.

This article argues that the stagnation, pessimism, and self-pity evident in recent Black writing results in part from the alienation of Black writers from the mainstream of Black life, and in part from the illusions that they share with other Blacks who have embraced the American value system. (Author/EB)

Suggests that Tozer's draft position paper on the social foundations of education could be improved by asserting more directly the substantive values that professional organizations wish to forward. The article recommends forwarding standards informed by educators' own scholarship that are theoretically tenable. (SM)

Explores how ideas of political economy shaped the culture of U.S. high schools in the nineteenth century and discusses reasons for the creation of high schools. Stresses the role that textbooks and the high school curriculum played in disseminating the economic, political, and social values of the time to students. (CMK)

Raises the question of the philosophical base of a liberal technology education, assuming that it cannot be provided simply by an engineer's perspective. Suggests a series of questions for reconstructing the cultural meaning of technology and a structural model that shows how meaning is generated through a variety of social relationships;…

This is an essay about research methodology, particularly the use of narrative method, in a project which depicts portraits of 10 influential educators of China. The essay begins with reflections on the dialogue of civilizations and the potential future influence of Chinese civilization in the global community. It then goes on to consider the…

Historically, African Americans have resisted participation in clinical trials and other research projects because of distrust of the mostly white research establishment. Although there are legitimate reasons for refusing to join clinical trials, most notably the abuses of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, African Americans may be passing up…

We describe what happens in a justice-oriented, service learning course and field experience and what university participants thought about it. Based on this examination, we consider promises and problems for service learning for social justice, and we suggest next steps for this kind of work. In this article, we consider one Alternative Spring…

This paper reports a three-year study of Praxis Inquiry based developments in teacher education undertaken by an international consortium of university colleagues who have worked in Australia, Iceland, Latvia, and the United Kingdom. Our study suggests that the attainment of inclusive community responsive pedagogies--in schools and in teacher…