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Coughlin, Ellen K. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Charles E. Curran, whose license to teach Catholic theology has been revoked by the Vatican, is part of a broad-based revisionist movement that is challenging the Church's traditional, neoscholastic approach to the discipline. (MSE)
Descriptors: Clergy, Critical Thinking, Dissent, Higher Education
An, Nack Young – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Middle-class moderates had begun to adopt the confrontational tactics of student protesters when the ruling party in South Korea made dramatic concessions to opposition demands for direct presidential elections. It indicates that politics is beginning to bow to societal conditions. (MLW)
Descriptors: Activism, College Students, Democracy, Dissent
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Wallimann, Isidor; Zito, George V. – Youth and Society, 1984
Relates the intensity of youth protest movements in the 1960s to cohort size, which was large because of the post-World War II baby boom. Reviews literature on socialization and class expectations among members of large birth cohorts. Associates the youth movement with protesters' perceived economic threats to their middle-class lifestyle. (KH)
Descriptors: Activism, Cohort Analysis, Dissent, Political Attitudes
Zille, Helen – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
The South African government has effectively prohibited all meaningful activities by 17 anti-apartheid organizations, including the South African National Students Congress, the largest and most vocal Black-student organization. Student demonstrations against the ban are reported. (MLW)
Descriptors: Activism, Blacks, Censorship, Dissent
McMillen, Liz – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
The Pope expressed strong support for Catholic higher education in America and urged greater attention to theological research, but repeated the Vatican's position that the theological work must be "tested and validated" by the Church. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Catholics, Church Related Colleges, Dissent
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Jenkins, J. Craig; Eckert, Craig M. – American Sociological Review, 1986
Critically evaluates the theory of patronage and professional social movement organizations (SMOs) in interpreting the development of black insurgency between 1953 and 1980. Findings support and contradict the social contract theory. Professionalization was only one of many reasons for the movement's decline. (Author/PS)
Descriptors: Activism, Astronomy, Black Organizations, Black Power
Weiner, Lois – 1998
Albert Shanker headed the American Federation of Teachers for 22 years and was president of the New York City teachers union. Both organizations were transformed by his presence. Shanker altered the politics of education and teacher unionism. During his tenure, American political life encountered the birth of social movements challenging the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Dissent, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Relations
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
New criteria for university management of campus dissent, student and faculty discipline, and reporting of campus incidents, issued by the South African government as a condition for government subsidies, are presented. (MSE)
Descriptors: Activism, College Administration, College Faculty, College Students
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Martin, Roberta P., Ed. – Counseling and Values, 1982
In eight articles, discusses values clarification: its history, controversial issues, and future. Addresses the application of values clarification in career counseling, school counseling, counselor training, civil liberties, and counseling the culturally different. An annotated bibliography is included. (JAC)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Counseling, Civil Liberties, Counseling Techniques