Research shows that messages transmitted by lyrics from various styles of popular music can predict students socio-political attitudes. (Author/DE)

Topics are: exposition of ten features in making concrete the unity of school and life, the nature of general education, the unity of scientific training and ideological education, as well as the connection between the struggle of the working class and the teaching of Russian. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A review of the social, political, and economic influences in film production and a critique of current assumptions about film criticism. (CH)

In discussing some of the contradictions and dilemmas of bilingual education in American schools, this article shows the preponderant influence of social and political factors outside of the schools. (Editor)

One in a series of studies of experiments in new audiovisual techniques in Europe and the situations in some member countries, this paper traces the development of radio in Italy. Opposing views about radio broadcasting (public monopoly vs. freedom of broadcasting) are examined, and the various political and legal aspects of communications in…

Discusses a number of new books that signal a revival of interest in the role of propaganda as a tool of mass persuasion. Relates the political uses of this revival to modern concerns about public opinion and advertising. (JD)

Discusses implications for future school board policy for second language programs in Western Canada. Includes discussion of environmental influences, international factors, federal factors, Quebec's influence, provincial factors, neighboring school divisions, and socio-political realities, etc. (AH)

Assesses the effect of the changing social and political environment of education on the nature and patterns of school board elections. Infers that board elections are becoming increasingly politicized in spite of the historic ideology that education is and ought to be an autonomous and nonpolitical function of government. (Author/MK)

Discusses the interactions of career counseling and public policy; the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to such interactions; and selected strategic issues facing professional career counselors in the 21st century. (GCP)

Examines the work and the life of German public opinion expert Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann. Shows that the attitudes and analytic tools she forged during her youth and brought to bear in her work as a Nazi Collaborator and apologist shaped her later thinking, including her articulation of the "spiral of silence" model of mass communication…

Looks at the sociopolitical factors that influence the implementation of clinical intervention studies in long-term care settings and suggests ways of minimizing threats to a study's internal validity. (Author)

Argues that technicism, the uncritical acceptance of the values of a modern technologically based society, leads to endemic environmental degradation. Proposes a reconceptualization of environmental literacy to include purposeful action based on a critical understanding of the social, economic, and political underpinnings of our environmental…

Critical mathematics education cannot be translated into principles. Aims to search for a working philosophy of mathematics for critical mathematics education. Concludes that aporism attempts to consider mathematics in its social, cultural, and political complexities, and to express uncertainties about mathematics' possible role as an educational…

Proposes a strategy for reading Asian American texts written for audiences whose political and aesthetic expectations differed substantially from those of contemporary Western readers. Uses three stories by Sui Sin Far, written between 1908 and 1910, to illustrate the process and tell much about race relations early in the century. (SLD)

This paper examines the politics and values of the secondary school curriculum in Greece and attempts to find out the influences of cultural tradition and centralized control on curriculum development. In particular, it studies the decision-making process and the politics of educational control, employing some theoretical elements from centralist…