Focuses on introductory courses in special education teacher preparation and the need to include systematic presentation of highly current topics, events, and interrelationships from factor fields, including economics, sociology, law, government, ethics, politics, and medicine. Discusses the need to assist beginning students in making analytical…

An ethnographic study included observation and interviews with 40 Head Start staff and 50 parents. Teaching and learning were affected by the sociopolitical context in terms of capacity (lack of resources affected expectations of parent involvement), power relations (allocation/withdrawal of resources), and connection (when parents and staff…

Discusses the dominant historic, economic, political, and social issues which affect the retention of African American college students through studies on ecological psychology. Considers the behaviors demonstrated by historically Black colleges which translate into effective retention policies or practices for predominantly White institutions.…

Discussed is the value of integrating the study of technology and society. Topics include political theory of spontaneous social orders, paradoxical nature of the theory in historical and in contemporary contexts, uses of spontaneous order theory with feedback technologies, and the comparison of feedback technology with two different spontaneous…

Creating time capsules is an instructional strategy that allows students to express their knowledge and perceptions about specific health issues, and it can help students understand how health issues are interwoven among all aspects of society. The article explains how to create time capsules for women's health issues. (SM)

This article examines the emergence of innovative policies in public postsecondary education systems and suggests that state postsecondary governance structures have influences on innovation that are independent of other social, educational, and economic factors. Policy implications are discussed. (SLD)

Examines how five trends--socioeducational demands, local political empowerment, technological options, economic trends, and nonlinear planning--weaken the school's authoritative status and strengthen school choice. Finds planning for choice an attribute of future educational policymaking and planning. Presents a conceptual framework for…

Traditionally, environmental education has been taught from a technocratic rationality, marked by a dominant and almost blind faith in the capacities and qualities of science rather than considering political and sociological factors. Describes international projects that are community based and action oriented and that incorporate aspects of…

Discusses the social and political contexts of proposed British educational reforms designed to address social justice and summarizes the discussion at the Association of Local Education Advisory Officers in Multicultual Education (ALAOME) March 1998 meeting. The ALAOME has drawn up a list of characteristics of effective schools in a multicultural…

Provides a theoretical framework for professional-values education in social work that incorporates personal, social, political, and professional values dimensions, each with explicit learning objectives and educational outcomes. The currently prevalent infusion model of values education clarifies values but does not help students integrate…

Examines the learning of Arabic by Israeli Jewish children. Finds that children displayed negative attitudes toward learning Arabic, but had positive attitudes toward the classroom situation. Also finds that classroom situation was the best predictor of learning success. Suggests that children are influenced more by classroom environment than by…

Evaluates the issue of producing and controlling the memories of the Holocaust as an example of the struggle over self-identity and the recognition of "the other" as a moral subject. Analyzes Israeli refusals to acknowledge the genocides/holocausts of other peoples as a test case for a humanist-oriented moral education. (DSK)

Recounts some experiences of African-Caribbean children in Leicester (England) schools in the 1960s and 1970s. Argues that these can be understood in relation to cultural attitudes and the policies of the Local Education Authority, which were, in turn, related to government policies of the time. (DSK)

Explores the syllabus reform initiative that occurred in South Africa as a means to combat apartheid education. Summarizes the political context in which the syllabus revision project emerged, highlights the political process through which the syllabus revision unfolded, and concludes with an assessment of the political consequences of this…

Inquires of the regional effects of National Socialist school policy, using as an example Thuringia (Germany), the educational landscape of which is traditionally characterized by reform-oriented institutions. Reveals how streamlining of reform schools and instruction from the top and self-streamlining from the bottom ran parallel after 1933. (CMK)