Concerning curriculum making, it is impossible to integrate the different meanings of "curriculum" into a single formula. Read as social constructions, different conceptions reflect varying educational, social-political, and historical contexts. This paper explores how these contexts, or multiple realities, evolved historically and how…

Notes that in relationship to their past culture and considering the American civilization, slavery was a disruptive force to black people. Asserts that the result of that force may still be seen today in the black family, which may reflect the powerlessness of the black man who had been stripped of all authority and humanity during two and a half…

Discusses some of the major stances taken in the debate on linguistic deprivation. Among those discussed are the socialization of linguistic codes, deficit and social-political-economic power theories, school bias explanation, and the difference hypothesis. [Available from Publications Branch, Education Department of Victoria, 234 Queensberry…

Traces social, cultural, economic, and political history shaping intelligence testing with respect to an inheritable intelligence level to conclude that interpretation of IQ has always been in a social and political context. (DW)

This paper describes a community education model which represents one aspect of developmental efforts with a community education evaluation project undertaken in Kanawha County, West Virginia. It begins by reviewing relevant community education literature which, together with local data sources from Kanawha County, was used as a foundation for the…

EDUCATION TODAY INFLUENCES AND IS INFLUENCED BY FIVE SOCIAL PROCESSES--(1) CONTRACTION OF SPACE AND TIME, BRINGING ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD CLOSER TOGETHER, (2) TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE IN THE LABOR FORCE FROM PRODUCTION OF GOODS TO THE DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION OF GOODS, (3) URBANIZATION AND METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT, CAUSING…

A structural analysis according to narrative rules and common content elements was made of stories on an identical theme in three different foreign language texts. The purpose of the analysis was to highlight some of the elements by which an educational institution influences its students through the world view it espouses. The three texts chosen…

A demographics-based approach to conjecture on the social future suggests several factors that bear on the social context of education in the 1980s, including shifts in population, economic activity, and political power, implications of the youth decline, possible intergenerational changes in fertility and women's employment, and the cyclical…

The major role of colleges of education in the goverance of teacher education is seen as being that of a reconciling and arbitrating agent for all other influences in teacher education. This view of the role of colleges of education is supported by evidence from twelve fields of investigation: social and economic change; historical antecedents of…

This history of Greek education traces the path of modernization from the emergence of Greece as an independent state in the early 1800's up to the present date. Educational philosophy and content are seen as pawns in the social and political struggles of those years. Detailed coverage of the historical events describes the structure of education…

A full understanding of the American school, this author argues, rests on a proper understanding of American society. One of the most powerful influences on society and hence on education is the corporation. The author explores this corporate influence, examining how its values are instilled in society. He then turns to an examination of the…

The purpose of this publication is to present the thinking of graduate and undergraduate students on contemporary issues, particularly those related to modern rhetoric and communication. The first section of this issue consists of articles on such topics as the current status of the Weathermen movement; the sexual revolution in America; a…

Discusses realities contributing to the avoidance of simplified characters by Chinese language teachers: (1) Many of them left China before 1949. (2) The Cold War and McCarthyism retarded the introduction of Chinese language realities. (3) Chinese language publications in the U.S. are mostly in complex characters. (KM)

On 8 November 1968 the French Ministry of Education issued a ministerial decree, the purpose of which was to set up a workable and durable system of parental participation in the day-to-day life of schools. The machinery proposed was complex, and a sequence of ministerial orders and circulars clarifying and modifying the original decree soon made…

If vocational educators are to continue to contribute to the education of America's students, they must be aware of and respond to the social, political, and economic forces that will change vocational education into something quite different from what it has been. (JOW)