The movement away from strictly conventional evaluation practices and toward new and more responsive models of inquiry seems inescapable when one ponders the future of evaluation. A more activist-oriented and more stakeholder-oriented model of evaluation seems to be the future of the field. (SLD)

Discusses the use of computer networks by environmentalists and others pursuing progressive agendas. Describes how the Internet can facilitate community action and involvement with environmental issues, despite rising commercial content. Lists six Internet resources. (LZ)

Considers the role of older adults as advocates in matters of concern to elderly citizens and in issues of general community interest. Examines the relationship of self-education and learning to advocacy in civic affairs. Offers a cross-cultural perspective on senior advocacy. (DMM)

Journal editor and founder of the National Indian Defence Association, Thomas Bland was a unique, persistent voice crying for retention of Indian rights in the 1880s. Although accepting the goal of Indian assimilation, Bland insisted it must be gradual and voluntary, and vigorously opposed coercive allotment of reservation land. (SV)

The protest poetry of Claude McKay, a leading writer of the Harlem Renaissance, is couched in the Western sonnet form. How the poetic form supports or conflicts with the messages of African-American pride and contempt for racism is examined. (SLD)

Presents an educational game for helping secondary school students learn about the role of Raoul Wallenberg in protecting European Jews from Nazi abuse in Hungary. Explains game objectives, materials needed, and procedures. Includes a map of 1945 Budapest that serves as the game board. (SG)

Discusses Tennessee's Highlander Folk School. Reports that the school helped organize labor unions and played a role in the civil rights movement of the 1950s. Explains that Highlander sought to bring about southern integration. Argues that successful civic education draws out the experiences and interests of participants and nurtures respect and…

Ethnic-studies programs, arising from a student and community grass-roots movement, challenge the prevailing academic power structure and the Eurocentric curricula of American colleges and universities. There is little uniformity or stability among 700 ethnic-specific programs and departments. The challenge is reconciling academic goals (knowledge…

A survey of 521 University of Toronto (Ontario) faculty investigated whether and how faculty attempt to influence government policy. Results indicate that over one-quarter had been politically active during the previous year. Faculty are involved in a number of policy areas, some personal and often related to their area of study. (Author/MSE)

A teacher relates his experiences in three South African high schools from 1979 to 1987, noting changes in classroom pedagogy from protest politics to awareness programs to people's education for people's power. He reflects on the directions that liberation pedagogy must take after apartheid. (DM)

Dramatizes the attempts, including hunger strikes, to get the University of California at Los Angeles to create a department of Chicano studies. Considers the difficulty of dealing compassionately with protesters when faced with institutional budget cuts. (HB)

Argues that Marxism is as much an ethical position that resists the foreclosure of identity as it is a political position. Claims a Marxist standpoint could facilitate the political and ethical accountability that the current politicized composition pedagogies seek while also constructing the classroom as a site for active participation in the…

Examines effectiveness of public information officers transmitting policy actors' frames through the media (six major newspapers) to the public during the 1991-92 silicone breast implant controversy that involved a major corporation, the medical community, and citizens' activist groups. Finds that the medical community's frame occurred most…

Contributes to journalism scholarship by presenting an ethnographic case study of how an inner-city neighborhood newspaper deals with the conflict between alternative, advocacy-style journalism and its interpretation of the conventions of objectivity, newsgathering, and story construction. (SR)

Asserts that because many teachers embrace the use of literature in their classrooms and use many avenues for responding to books, social action can be an important addition to the repertoire of response strategies. Examines support for activism from both the social studies and literacy education communities, and offers guidelines and resources…