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Valli, Linda – Issues in Education, 1985
In a cultural analysis of school-to-work transition of senior high school women, inadequacies of the allocation and socialization models of status attainment are revealed. The research found that "career" choice is not rational and that "ambitions" and "aspirations" emerge from cultural context. While status may be an…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Office Occupations Education, Productivity, Secondary Education

Raywid, Mary Anne – Issues in Education, 1986
Examines management approaches in ethical terms, arriving at numerous criteria applicable to educational administration. Discusses scientific management, morally neutral concepts, hyperrationalization, tightening of controls, and the business/industry model as having eclipsed or confused the moral dimensions of education. Calls for enlarged moral…
Descriptors: Criteria, Decentralization, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education

Sorenson, Gail Paulus – Issues in Education, 1985
Discusses the history of debate about the roles of indoctrination versus free inquiry in the classroom in American education. Many present-day theorists may discover what educators of the 1930s found: that there is no contradiction between transmitting democratic values while opposing censorship and indoctrination. (MD)
Descriptors: Censorship, Curriculum Development, Democracy, Educational History

McGroarty, Mary – Issues in Education, 1985
Analyzes the content and images presented in textbooks used to teach English as a second language to adults during two different periods: just after World War I and the present. During the first time period the researchers found that concerns of citizenship were critical; in the present, concerns over consumerism are dominant. Includes a table and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizenship, Consumer Education, Educational Research

Feinberg, Walter – Issues in Education, 1985
Criticizes reports on educational reform for possessing an ideological climate in which inquiry and dissent are quieted, and vocationalism (packaged as academic courses) is rampant. The reports compromise between influence and insight and neglect fundamental problems such as inability of schools to provide students with critical abilities needed…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education

Tetreault, Mary Kay; Schmuck, Patricia – Issues in Education, 1985
Investigates fate of issue of gender in eight reform reports currently dominating discourse on educational reform. Found that gender is not relevant category in the analysis of excellence in schools and that the past decade of legislation, new scholarship on women, research, and action for sex equity has gone unheeded. Concludes that goal of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education