Examines the current status of school-community cooperation in the character building and socialization of youth, and makes suggestions for improvement. (JB)

What should social studies teachers be trying to teach students how to do? Every culture provides its members with social "maps" that explain how things are--e.g., school materials, advertisements. Teaching students how to read these social "maps" should be the central task for social studies education. (RM)

The relative influence of parents, peers, and teachers on third, fourth, and fifth graders' voting behavior was investigated. Children were interviewed about their voting preferences and perceptions of significant others' voting preferences. Mothers and fathers held the most influence over their children. Implications for political socialization…

Describes research on the integration of Mexican-American children into the U.S. political system. Observes that from newcomers through the second generation, Mexican-American children become increasingly identified with and immersed in American political orientations, but that the third generation demonstrates a notable decline in political…

Contends that the political philosophy underlying Mina Shaughnessy's "Errors and Expectations" is one which reinforces both the teacher's position of control and the training of minority students to follow and obey authority. (DD)

Analyzes how literary training in content, character, style, and world view might affect one's view of the world of politics. (DD)

Analyzed life history essays of Croatian and Bosnian children to explore the importance of historical sociocultural changes in their ethnic and national socialization processes. Found that their development has been deranged by a war emphasizing ethnic belonging, and that their images and denotations of the war enemy have become the most…

Describes the many and varied literacy projects in which the author and his family are involved. Discusses how, reaching far beyond print media, they xperiment with other forms of literacy that enrich each of them personally, socially, and politically. (RS)

Through an analysis of two representative media--romance fiction and television news--the author argues for production of a media-literate citizenry. Suggestions governed by the Freirean objective of co-intentional education are offered to support media literacy as a form of cultural politics and to advocate its adoption. (Author/CH)

Reports on a survey that evaluated the leadership system in ideological and political education presently in place in colleges and universities in Beijing, China. Describes the current system and suggests improvements that can be made. (GG)

Evaluates the "expanding environments" approach to social studies education. Argues that the sequence fails to portray the political environment realistically. Suggests an alternative approach that would bring all political organization levels together at each grade level. Concludes that such an approach would give students a more…

Young adults were asked about their political attitudes in three interviews over a seven-year period. Case studies of three of these young adults describe the interplay between the personal and social contexts of their lives and their interpretations of national and international issues. (BC)

Dewey's ideas of democracy and pragmatism clashed with the monarchial and idealistic patterns of school-practice and pedagogic theory in pre- and post-World War II Germany. Acceptance of Dewey's work was hindered by counterproductive politico-educational interpretations of source material compounded with a lack of hermeneutic assessment of his…

This article attends to comparative education scholars' calls for more dialogue on the contribution of theory to comparative education research. It first presents the results of a review of a small sample of articles from comparative education related journals that elicited the purposes of their comparative research strategies in terms of…