This paper uses the case of Eritrea to explore tensions between education and militarisation as forms of everyday state-making and examine how teachers constitute the state in the process of navigating these tensions. In 2003 Eritrea merged educational and military institutions. Teachers responded to the new policies by alternately joining in with…

This paper looks at efforts by the Armed Forces to identify where the need for literacy instruction exists and how to provide it when the need is identified. It begins by discussing the literacy context of a military career to provide a perspective on how literacy is or may be used in the services. The demands for literacy are shown to be much…

The integration of women into the U.S. Naval Academy is analyzed. Areas of concern identified before the arrival of women in the class of 1980 were fraternization, acceptance, physical conditioning, berthing, leading and counseling females, publicity, athletic outlets, extra-curricular involvement, summer cruises, weight and diet requirements, and…