Examines the connection between future outlook and school achievement among low-income, urban African American adolescents. Findings suggest gender and achievement differences in adolescents' goals and expectations. Highlights the importance of understanding the historical and cultural contexts that may shape adolescents' perceptions of the…

Medical record abstraction was conducted to identify correlates of suicidal behaviors in a sample of 285 Asian American youths. Acculturation interacted with risk factor of parent-child conflict to predict suicidality. Finding underscores the importance of culture as a context for determining the relevance of stressors for potentiating…

A sociocultural approach takes into account how literacy is acquired and used in social contexts. Socially determined meanings of literacy practices and the different ways cultures are valued reflect tensions between practical consciousness and official or dominant consciousness. Literacy education should recognize literacy as a cultural practice…

Outlines demographic dimensions of the work force: aging, gender, race, sexual orientation, immigration, language, religion. Suggests a workplace pedagogy that is sensitive to sociocultural context and includes the concept of workplace learning as a lifelong process, socioculturally sensitive policies, equal opportunity development, and diversity…

Investigates developmental changes in moral reasoning about sibling and parental relationships in Mainland Chinese children. Results suggested universal stage-like progression in moral judgment from superficial to profound. However, culture-specific moral reasoning also existed. Argues that Chinese children's moral characteristics are influenced…

Proposes that classroom studies in the Teaching English as a Second or Other Language (TESOL) field tend to subscribe to either of the following two normative orders: Progressive liberalism or cultural relativism, without reflexively recognizing and meta-analyzing these normative frameworks and their social, historical, and political situatedness.…

Suggests that educators need to consider more explicitly the connections of knowledge and stance so that they can better understand doctoral education and the reproduction of composition studies as oriented to the world ethically and normatively as well as cognitively. Outlines tensions in political theory between liberalism and communitarianism.…

Argues for a pedagogy of the posthuman that meets the needs of student writers in computer classrooms. Suggests that educators now fail to serve the needs of posthuman students whose subjectivities emerge at the conjuncture of consumer culture and cyberspace and emerge as commodities. Proposes that critically oriented compositionists should design…

Discusses what English is for in the era of globalization. Explains new tasks for English; English in the era of information and communication; and aesthetics, ethics, and texts as the purposes of English. Concludes that a rich version of English is the subject which still mediates understandings of taste, in its multiple and various textual…

Discusses Polish Christmas carols from historical and linguistic perspectives, and suggests that they provide insight into Polish culture and customs. (24 references) (Author/OD)

Historicism critiques cultural history and cultural materialism as a methodology for literary analysis. Questions the finality of interpretation, how original values change, and whether dramatic history implies actual history. Using Shakespearean plays, analyzes the power and politics of a play in relation to its audience; posits that cultural…

Examines two popular children's books, Enid Blyton's "The Mountain of Adventure" and Judy Blume's "Forever...." Concludes that these books actively work against achieving a sense of the "fullness of human experience," and isolate individual experiences from a broader social context. (MM)

This introduction to a series of articles whose theme is sex equity and sexuality in education, defines terms (sexuality, sex or sexuality education, sex equity), discusses the importance of issues related to the theme, and highlights findings from articles in the series. (IAH)

What teachers believe and how they behave is a result of socialization in the culture of teaching. If long-term school reform is a goal of staff development, then strategies and mechanisms must be developed which focus on changing the culture of teaching. (JD)

Problems arise with theories about experience, because subjectivity cannot be the source of meaning in experience. Proposing that experience is made intelligible through language, the author formulates an alternative theory of adult learning: the individual who learns has a language, a culture, and a history; therefore, the learner is situated in…