The article analyzes the construction of national reactions to a transnational higher education policy from the point of view of the representation of social actors in policy documents. The data are provided by the so-called Bologna Process, particularly the development of comparable quality assurance systems, and Finnish responses to those…

Two practical problems faced by national youth organisations devoted to the transmission of European classical music-making across the generations are: (1) how to assist individual pre-professional young musicians to enter their desired career path; and (2) how, in the interests of social justice, to provide access to music-educational…

Report on the British organization, the Children's Film Foundation. (CH)

Violence at sporting events is a self-feeding stimulus, not a useful cathartic for natural aggression; in the final analysis, it should be realized that athletic contests are games, not struggles for survival. (MM)

By locating meaning exclusively in the reader in his theory of literary criticism, Stanley Fish denies the possibility of change. (DD)

Compares the views of Burke and Langer, emphasizing their agreement that the potential of dramatic works to elicit desired responses from audiences lies in the element of formal expressiveness, which in effect defines ideal audiences. (MS)

A critical analysis and rejection of Stanley Fish's reader-oriented theory of criticism. (DD)

Contends that the four major types of popular literature (science fiction, mayhem, horror, and whodunit) reveal the personalities of their readers. (DD)

Adult educators should consider the possibilities of extending their concern to the field of leisure activities to avoid continuation of programs oriented toward a minority of the population. (NL)

England's Independent Television Authority divides children's programs into four categories: information, drama, light entertainment, and films. A producer for one of the independent companies describes one program series in each of the four categories. (LS)

Based on a speech given before the Kettering Conference on Public Television Programming (June 26, 1969).

Argues that sports readers are no longer satisfied with statistics and scores. Finds that people want in-depth coverage of sports, as well as sports-related human interest stories. Cautions that if sports writers and editors do not modernize, they will be seen by readers as unnecessary, and could possibly be eliminated. (PA)

Explores the argumentation of critical rhetoric as a millennial appeal, a rhetorical device aimed at establishing a new world with subsequent need for a new critical orientation. Argues that the advocates of critical rhetoric characteristically use dissociation as their primary rhetorical strategy. Concludes that M. Bakhtin's concept of…

This article discusses the results of a CASE survey, compiled in April 2009, which was sent to almost 2,800 members who had previously indicated that community relations were part of their professional responsibilities or interests. The survey suggests that the role and practice of community relations in a public institution is somewhat different…