Demonstrates how French dictionaries from the seventeenth century onwards have used elimination or definition to censure certain words unacceptable to the bourgeois ideology of the times.

An overview of Mexican history since the Revolution (1917) examines the centrality of the middle class in the development of the corporativist state and its recent unraveling, the role assigned to and played by education within the corporativist political configuration, and how a corporativist state conditions educational systems and practices. A…

Discusses the need for educators, school librarians, and authors of adolescent literature to provide literature which is at once entertaining and educational for young adults. Some current social factors affecting the emotional and intellectual development of adolescents, including permissive family environments and the impact of television, are…

Examines middle-class child-rearing philosophies and practices and their effect on children's academic success. Suggests that middle-class parenting practices reflect a coherent set of cultural beliefs about the relation of the individual to the group and about the parents' role in bringing children into the group. Suggests that these beliefs…

The thesis of this paper is that constructivism and similar pedagogic formulations are problematic because: (1) being nondialectical they close off possibilities for dialogue about issues such as those discussed in this paper; and (2) they are embedded in forms of discourse which privilege middle-class culture, values, language, and ways of…

Argues that advocacy for improved programs and services to strengthen family life in the United States is inconsistent with prevailing cultural attitudes which have turned away from the valuation of the traditional nuclear family. (BE)

Although often considered to be homogeneous, the Hispanic community contains many culturally diverse groups. In the United States today, those of Mexican heritage--by far the largest subgroup within the Hispanic community--can be further classified as Mexicano (undocumented resident), Mexican American, or Chicano. This classification system…