The aged characters in Chicano literature are full of vitality, hope, creativity, and human warmth, in contrast to the portrayal of older people in English literature. The article analyzes the characterizations of older people in works by Rudolfo Anaya, Carlos Castaneda, Orlando Romero, and Sabine Ulibarri. (SB)

Outlines a procedure for helping mature students learn the art of textual analysis. Notes the advantages of problem solving in small groups as a means of developing skills for literary analysis. (RL)

Argues for the experiential study rather than the solely critical analysis of literature. Shows how to add to student enrichment and student appreciation for literature by exploring literature through body movement, the senses, voice and speech, the emotions, the imagination, and the intellect. (RL)

In recent years a few children's book have begun to move out of predominantly rural settings into urban landscapes. This article examines trends of urban imagery in children's books and what the images reveal about adults and values of contemporary society. (DS)

Examines children's books by M. B. Goffstein and concludes that they illuminate the author's point of view--that there is beauty and dignity in a life of hard work to make something good, something that people can believe in. (HOD)

Presents a book illustrator's point of view regarding the issues of how to evaluate children's literature and the relevance to book reviewers of children's possible responses; considers the role of the illustrator in relation to child readers. (HOD)

Describes the use of the proverb "a watched pot never boils" to help students make the relationship between literal statements and the reader's own experience. (MKM)

Critiques Marxian "cures" for alienation as discussed in Karl Marx's "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts." Also traces the activity of a former student who joined the revolution in Cuba. Journal available from 7 Harwood Drive, Amherst, New York, 14226. (KC)

Outlines the working assumptions of the Cadre filmmaking group, including their demand for active viewing, and close attention to imagery, editing, and the relationship between sound and image. Shows how these ideas were utilized in their latest film, "Storm of Fire." (CK)

Recommends an interdisciplinary approach to writing a term paper about James Hilton's "Lost Horizon." (TJ)

Advocates a learning society as a new social ethic suitable to a world facing inevitable limits to material growth and as a response to prospective decline in demand for traditional services from teachers and scholars. Combines idealism and self-interest to provide a strong rhetorical position for advocates of a learning society. (JMF)

Reconceptualizes Kohlberg's theory and research on moral stages in the light of recent criticisms. A proposed revision describes moral development in adulthood as existential rather than Piagetian and restricts moral judgment in the standard stage sense to childhood and adolescence. (Author/SS)

Shows how literature gradually assumed importance during the nineteenth century, particularly when promoted as a valuable study by the colleges and universities, and reviews some American and British authors who were widely read during the century. (DD)

The paper discusses how the two prominent Latin American writers approach the historical material of their national pasts, Mexico and Peru, and attempt to use that material for the creation of a national ideology. In confronting the future with a new national identity, Mariategui's myth of agrarian communism and Paz's version of invisible history…

This paper is a brief background introduction to the topics of history and education. It indicates some of the main lines of contemporary thinking about the history of education. Also, the history of recent elementary/popular education is reviewed. (ND)