Traces the changing views on the role and status of male early childhood education teachers in the forties and fifties (male prohibition), the sixties and early seventies (the macho image), and the late seventies and early eighties (the age of androgyny).

Evaluates role played by the periodical "Economics" in the rise of economics study in English schools since the second World War. Topics discussed include membership in the Economics Association, contribution to the journal by school teachers, and the relationship of the boom in economics study to the general interest in social sciences. (DB)

Presents a social analysis of organized labor, socialism, and the Milwaukee schools during the Progressive era, with particular emphasis on the political fortunes of one of the most successful labor movements in American history. (Author/DB)

The Polish experience in America is explored through three different but related topics: the Pole as immigrant; the ambivalent role of education; and attitudes toward change. (JN)

One of America's oldest and most distinctive ethnic minorities are the Cajuns of Louisiana. Cajuns are typically Roman Catholic, rural, emphasize kinship relations, and speak or understand both English and Louisiana French. The schools attended by Cajuns are reasonably well-supported and dynamic. (JN)

The importance of educational research as a determinant of educational policy and practice is demonstrated. The impact of racism on research technology and the effect of research technology on racism is explained, including alternatives to present research methodology. (Author/RL)

Traces the history of 20th-century educational reform in Hawaii focusing on, among others, how forces of industrialism (particularly corporate development) and Americanization influenced educational reform during the Island's territorial period (1900-1959), impact of US Bureau of Education Survey, and aspects of the American Progressive Education…

The author discusses the 31-year history of the Adult Education Association of the U.S.A. (AEA) and examines several of its features: the influence of group dynamics, role of the volunteer, and the AEA's redefinition of the role of knowledge-based agencies as agencies of adult education. (CT)

Explores socio-economic factors and educational trends which contributed to the rise and fall in popularity of educational technology in Sweden between 1960-1980. Future uses of educational technology are also discussed. (AM)

In light of the current American interest in school vouchers as proposed by economist Milton Friedman, recapitulates the origins, content, and fate of an 1872 law drafted by a French parliamentary commission to establish a countrywide voucher scheme for primary schools. (NEC)

Reviews the activities of the Rockefeller Foundation's Equal Opportunity Program in the 1960s. States that initially the program had an elitist character catering to affluent Blacks in an attempt to bring talented Blacks into the mainstream at selected colleges. Claims that after program staff integration, new educational directions were…

Speculates on several contextual ways of becoming a teacher in precontact Indian society, contrasts certain imported beliefs on becoming a teacher, and suggests how findings drawn from provincial historical data might help illuminate a history of teacher education. (CM)

The prevailing view of educational theory is that its purpose is to be translated into practice. Theory is most practically applicable to situations which educators expect to confront at some future time. (JN)

Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) in France is described, with three periods of development noted. It is felt teachers need to be motivated to use CAL. The current priority is seen to be teacher training, with secondary schools the focus. (MP)

Analyzes the educational philosophy in Rousseau's "Emile" and its influence on the secularization of French moral education during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This critical analysis of Rousseau's naturalistic ethics covers the importance of home-life, habit-training, discipline, reason, physical needs, and historical…