Curriculum change has rarely been examined as a political process of interaction, influence, and the use of social power for realigning community values. (Author)

This study attempts to illustrate the influence of structural effects on innovativeness. Several methods are used to isolate the external constrains and community values from the individual's internalized values and personal attributes." (Author/SE)

The author states that nearly all nationally stated aims in education profess to cherish individual qualities. He suggests, however, that this ideal is a generalization which cannot be discussed in any universalistic way through all time in all countries, culture-contexts, and ideologies. (KC)

Explores commonalities across and differences between learners in mathematics classrooms. Explores commonalities between learners across mathematics and between communities of practice. Discusses how to address teachers' roles and responsibilities. Investigates differences between syllabus and practice, school mathematics, mathematics in the…

In 1970, urban African-American self-employment depended upon niches created by racial disadvantage, but by 1980 increased educational attainment and occupational status of African-American workers enabled them to move beyond traditional niches and become entrepreneurs supported by a sizable middle class African-American community. Contains 53…

New and emerging perspectives of educational contexts of literacy are reviewed that emphasize the inseparability and reciprocal influence of literacy practices with the social and ideological agendas of the communities, institutions, and settings in which the literacy practices are embedded. Research on conversational contexts of literacy…

Examined factors that influenced the formation of neutral or negative attitudes in physically competent 10th graders toward physical education and physical activity. Observations, surveys, and interviews with 10th graders indicated that the primary influences on students' attitudes were issues relating to the physical-education program, the…

Racial differences in adolescent premarital childbearing were largely explained by racial differences in neighborhood quality. These neighborhood effects were attributed to peer attitudes and behaviors, adolescents' more tolerant attitudes toward unmarried parenthood, and greater residential mobility in distressed communities. Neighborhood effects…

Discusses Harmonium Inc., a community-based agency that counsels adolescents who are at moderate to high risk of developmental defeat because their behavior either threatens their health or jeopardizes their future. It is designed to assist these adolescents using a collaborative, strength-based counseling model built in the integrative capacity…

Investigates the educative process in restorative justice reforms revealing three characteristics effective in facilitating moral learning for the common good. Explains that these three characteristics can be formulated as principles to guide the theory and practice of community-based moral education. Addresses implications for moral education.…

Identifies external communities of interest, among other factors, affecting secondary-level anti-racist multicultural education, analyzing schools' representations of their cultural characteristics to different communities of interest for different purposes. Concludes that schools must adopt more principled, explicit, organizational learning…

Examines the sociocultural influences on risk of first sex among Hispanic teens living in Los Angeles County. Hispanic teens living in low-density Hispanic neighborhoods have significantly higher risk of sex than do teens living in neighborhoods with higher levels of ambient hazards. Results highlight the importance of characterizing sociocultural…

Discusses the two major forms of curriculum design in Australian medical schools: the innovative approach and the traditional approach. The innovative medical school has a problem-based, student-centered community orientation and has been the curriculum of choice in the newer medical schools for meeting future challenges in medical education. The…