Investigates evaluations by 10 successful federal and provincial politicians of school board experience as a political apprenticeship. Notes that regardless of political socialization or prior experience, all agreed that school board experience was valuable, provided valuable political skills, and had a strong politicizing effect on them, changing…

A political science course at Adelphi University that uses films for instruction is described by its design, content, and problems. (ND)

The visible signs of patriotism displayed in the United States since the events of September 11, 2001 are at once an expression of pride and a palliative for people's grief and sorrow, an understandable response to a national tragedy. But more important is a kind of less visible patriotism that calls for fidelity to the values and principles for…

A growing number of educational programs seek to promote young people's participation in political and civic affairs. A common strategy for doing so is to provide students with opportunities to make a difference in their communities. Much research demonstrates a strong connection between a person's sense about making a difference efficacy and the…

Considers programs of teacher competency that will cause effective teaching to be developed. (RK)

This paper discusses the importance of popular images for school structure and roles, and attempts a systematic theoretical recasting in terms of a constructive typology. (Editor)

By focusing on a narrow but dramatic issue--rural education in Latin America--this paper explores the more general theme of the relationship between schooling and political development. (Author)

The contrast between the real power and the experience of impotence that millions of bright, earnest school children attest to prompts one to enquire into preplanned impotence and self-defeat. (Author)

By illustrating the variety of styles of educational pressures placed upon Soviet students, the author demonstrates the manner through which fellow students can constructively influence each other. (RK)

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union operates two separate systems of political schools; one of the Party officials and one for the rank-and-file Party membership. This article presents a complete description of the professional training schools, indicating that training in such schools precedes assignment to leading positions in the Party's…

The data presented here indicates improved opportunities for a larger role for Mexican Americans in Texas politics and may be used as a bench mark to periodically measure the rate and direction of political change. (Author)

An inventory of resources available to the classroom teacher is divided into the following sections: curriculum materials, curriculum guides and bibliographies, resource units, bibliography of teacher resources, games and simulations, periodicals, organizations, and a directory of political scientists. (Author/JB)