To achieve its expressed political goals of social empowerment and transformation, cultural studies must maintain some significant ethical and political commitments. The growing field of cultural studies is analyzed in terms of its definition within a specific ethical and social justice agenda and its links to the critical pedagogy tradition in…

This book puts into a broader theoretical and political perspective the issues of racial inequality and minority underachievement that face educators in schools and universities across the United States. After presenting a critical overview of mainstream and radical solutions to racial inequality in education, it offers an alternative approach…

The field of educational administration has a major credibility problem in academe because it is seen to lack a convincing theoretical base. In the practical world of politics, management, and teaching, it appears that educational values are easily rendered marginal in policy making and that team and institutional leaders lack a sophisticated…

The common assumption that teacher evaluation has a positive impact on the improvement of teaching is challenged. Critical challenges to the assumed contribution of teacher evaluation to learning originate from at least three areas of scholarly work: (1) revisionist/Marxist literature, which describes educational structures including teacher…

Based on a new examination system, a first-year university student responds to a chemistry examination in which he applies dialectical materialism in analyzing contradictions in chemistry. (JR)

Presents some initial thoughts about a Marxist interpretation of Black American literature, raises some relevant issues, and charts some possible directions that a Marxist criticism of Black literature could take. (Author/GW)

This article critiques "Schooling and Work in the Democratic State" by Martin Carnoy and Henry M. Levin. The book examined the public school as more than an institution that reproduces unequal class relations of capitalist society, but also as a product of conflict between the dominant and the dominated in the paid workplace. (MT)

This critique of John Langton's behavioral evolutionist account of the development of bureaucracy in the 18th Century British pottery industry contends that the evolutionary explanation rests on unexamined functionalist assumptions which overlook social costs and the mediating effects of the class structure and the profit motive. (TE)

Examines the career choices and aspirations of women in two contexts: social divergency theories derived from Marx and Simmel, and personal symbolization theories based on George Mead's writings. Presents a series of propositions to help formulate a coherent social theory about women's career choices, supported by empirical confirmation. (AYC)

Describes and assesses the contributions of Marxist political theorist Antonio Gramsci to developing a meaningful theory relating political education to equality. Identifies Gramsci's major contribution as the substitution of the notion of an ambiguous common sense for false consciousness. (Author/DB)

Three authors review the book by Harold Entwistle about the theoretician of Marxist social theory, Antonio Gramsci. Conclusions are that the book does not accurately reflect Gramsci's view on education. (KC)

This neo-Marxian analysis of Britain's Further and Higher Education Act and the White Paper that preceded it shows how adult education funding was steered solely toward vocational qualifications. The impact on local education authorities and nonvocational courses is addressed. (SK)

Seeks to chart a course through the contested area of gender and sexual orientation in hopes of establishing a theoretical framework and an agenda for much needed future research. Draws from two research traditions, particularly in the areas of history and law: neo-Marxist theory generally and Queer Legal Theory specifically. (Contains 161…

Pyong Gap Min and Edna Bonacich have both written about Korean Americans' immigration and occupational adjustment. Their variant findings are a result of individual philosophical differences. Discusses the practical implications of both writers' conclusions. (DM)

Outlines revisionist interpretations of the French Revolution that challenged the dominant historiographical tradition during the 1950s and 1960s. Distinguishes four central characteristics of revisionist works. Identifies a key split in current French Revolution historiography between reflection on nineteenth-century…