A cultural perspective is applied to modern popular songs that encourages listeners to use a critical ear and consider not only the songs themselves, but also how they fit into the broadcast industry's schema. Different song types and industry patterns of song exploitation are considered. (MSE)

Complaints are heard that universities currently limit scholarly inquiry to scientific spheres. But in this, the university is actually reflecting modern society, whose culture is becoming increasingly rationalized due to economic emphasis on technological advancement. (SJL)

Tracing the changing concept of child art from the theories of Rousseau to the present, the author expounds the view that the interpretation of child art and the content of art education are functions of the social issues surrounding adult art in a given culture. (Author/SJL)

Examines the participation of Blacks, Anglos, and Mexican Americans in adult basic education programs in Texas in terms of two opposing views which attribute poverty to the debilitating cultural characteristics of the poor or to the powerless position of the poor in an exploitative social structure. (Author/MK)

Moral education is not included in the curriculum, but the history of Chile shows the influence of European culture. Therefore a philosophy of education which promotes an autonomous human being has usually underlined educational policy. The influence of Catholicism has been very strong both in school curriculum and parent attitudes. (Author/SJL)

Using data from descriptive essays written at three grade levels, this study examined the theoretical assumption that semantic abbreviation (an inadequate representation of situational and cultural contexts of language in student writing) is attributable to the influence of spoken language. (HOD)

Examines the implications of the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE) program in India for development policy. Assesses the project's performance in terms of the feasibility and usefulness of large-scale rural broadcasting by satellite. Uses the experience to generalize about producing educational programing for heterogeneous rural…

Of 21 beginning French textbooks evaluated according to presentation of French culture, only two met the cultural and pedagogical criteria derived from various models. Lacking this cultural content, students cannot fully learn the foreign language. (PMJ)

The process of education inevitably involves the adoption and possibly the transmission of values. Much of adult education, the author says, contributes to the maintenance of cultural and social norms. Drawing upon concepts of socialization theory, he urges the exploration of the varieties of ideology implicit in adult education and education's…

Throughout European history, artists have celebrated the values of their patrons. Today, the schools are the largest employer of artists. To justify art education according to current Back-to-Basics values, art teachers should explain visual art as a language, which they can teach students to read and use. (SJL)

Using examples from an evaluation design of a bilingual preschool program, the authors have developed a paradigm resting on contextually based evaluation and involving implementation strategies and participant researchers. Multiple methods of gathering environment-specific data are used in the process. (MH)

The author alleges that colleges and universities have adopted a policy of "value neutrality" in order to protect academic freedom and to survive. He calls for professional responsibility, asserting that axiological considerations lie at the heart of the educational process. (Editor/LBH)

Higher education is overextended, is not being managed for future strength, and lacks relevance to the needs of society. As a remedy, the author suggests that the general objectives of higher education need to be reinterpreted into a form of education more suitable for the newly emerging socioeconomic modes of behavior. (LBH)

Of all the achievements of the Communist system in Yugoslavia, one of the most spectacular is the extraordinary growth in the number and size of universities. This growth is examined in terms of expansion, finance, equality of opportunity, decline in staff quality, reform, academic standards, and political ramifications. (LBH)

In contrast to Western professors, those in Japan have tended to emphasize the local university-centered components of their professorial roles. In recent years, however, many Japanese professors have shifted their energies away from these university-centered components to become "professional" in the Western sense or otherwise more…