In the counternarratives shared in this article, the readers will read accounts of day-to-day realities of being a professional that will help prepare them in their professional roles as educators and counselors, in particular, the educational life experiences that influenced their professional development. Each person reflects on their life--as…

America is supposed to be a place of freedom and kindness. People from other countries look at America and see a place of opportunity where they can raise their children. Immigrants see America as a place where their children can receive a solid education and have a chance for a better life. Unfortunately, many Americans do not see it the way…

This article considers the aesthetics of applied performance with people with learning disabilities. Focusing on the integrated punk band Heavy Load, it explores how the aesthetic structure reconstructs notions of learning disability and intervenes in its social experience. It argues that this is facilitated through the punk form which positions…

This article focuses on the sense of what an "African" (American) identity could mean when viewed through the processes of migrations and fluid identities of contemporary African immigrant children as they interact with their African (Americans) peers in schools. The purpose of this article is to use data from a study of West African…

To get an inside view of campus life today, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (whose purpose is to foster in college students an appreciation of the values that sustain a free society) was approached and asked to supply a list of their Collegiate Network editors--students who are active on their campuses, interested in the issues facing higher…

Explores the issues of recognizing people's identities within the context of community life and work; fostering literacy within the various domains of social life; and helping individuals develop literacy tools with which to examine, critique, challenge, and change existing situations of economic, social, and political inequalities from the…

Three papers concerning learning disabled adults and a list of resources available for disabled people are presented. The first paper, "Colin's Own Story," was written by a 16 year old learning disabled individual, and recounts his struggles and what it is like to be learning disabled. Two poems by the author further describe his emotions and…

Notes the need to attend to the blurring of the category of childhood implicit in debates about topics such as children's interests and rights and criminalization of children. Outlines factors underlying a shift in the condition of contemporary childhood and children's social experiences. Argues the need to identify how children create and…

Discusses today's black studies programs and the division between the empiricist and conceptualist views of black history. Through a personal narrative involving a visit to Tuskegee University, the author muses over Booker T. Washington's type of eloquence in addressing the black experience compared to today's black public intellectual's attempts,…

Responds to John Wilson's article "Philosophy and Education Research: A Reply to David Bridges et al." Discusses three observations: (1) different recollections of the pretensions attached to conceptual analysis; (2) the supposition of establishing meaning of a word without a theory of meaning; and (3) rhetorical and persuasive functions…

Traditionally journalism history has been male-oriented and has operated on the assumptions that journalism history is about winning, autonomy, and change. Two corollary assumptions hidden in post journalism history are (1) proper journalism history should focus on action, not consequence of action; and (2) history should be explained in terms of…

Assesses the changing social fabric theory of adolescence. (RH)

Clarifies the author's position on constructivism and whether nature determines what is produced as knowledge in human development. The author states his form of constructivism as a theory of rational knowing, not a metaphysics of being, for whatever things we know, we know only insofar as having constructed them as viable entities in our…

Argues against Glasersfeld's (1996) position that individual experience, not metaphysics, dictates that knowing is itself a metaphysical position. It further disputes Glasersfeld's assertion that people are necessarily constructed differently in our minds than objects, but agrees with Glasersfeld that proceeding with the business of education does…

This essay chronicles the career of pioneering Mexican rock band Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del 5 [degree] Patio. I argue that in a post-Chicano movement period, Maldita has become a borderless cultural institution influencing a generation of Mexicans on both sides of the border. Maldita has sought linkages with Mexicans from north and south…