Critiques the writings of historians Frederick Jackson Turner and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., arguing that the experiences and viewpoints of Native Americans are largely absent. Describes the inaccuracies of the eurocentric view common to typical presentations of American history and calls for integration of Native Americans into the nation's…

Compares the characteristics of children's books that received critical acclaim from adults and were "Children's Choices" to books that received critical acclaim only. Finds that the stylistic and structural differences between the two groups of books are more apparent than variations in themes. (RS)

Argues that, through his use of specific language choices, George Bush's Gulf War rhetoric embraced and supported the orientational metaphor of the World War II model, while simultaneously rejecting the Vietnam model. Concludes the use of the World War II model legitimated both the military action and Bush's leadership. (NH)

Considers how readers form impressions of writers' personalities while reading their texts. Reports on a series of studies which asked readers to respond to college application essays by high school students. Concludes that responses to texts concerning personality are highly predictable and, thus, can be influenced by the writer. (HB)

Argues that most gender-related educational reforms will not foster the social and scientific transformations envisioned by feminist science scholars. Calls for a reconceptualization of science education that includes knowledge of the physical world along with an understanding of the biases and cultural, social, and political contexts of Western…

Addresses three questions to characterize the discipline of art criticism and delineate its role in instruction: (1) What is a discipline? (2) In what sense is art criticism a discipline? and (3) How, specifically, is art criticism to inform educational practice? Links this discussion to assumptions in Discipline-Based Art Education. (DSK)

Contributes to rhetorical theory and to an understanding of social movements and countermovements by examining the journal of a Massachusetts anti-suffrage organization. Finds that it was principally reactive, that its basic themes illustrated the ideology of the anti-suffrage movement, and that this ideology was reflected in the organizational…

Considers the short stories of William Carlos Williams as material for college courses. Describes an unsuccessful writing assignment based on Williams'"The Use of Force." Notes that the assignment was more successful at an adult-education arts center with a more mixed group of students. (PA)

The Council on Interracial Books for Children (CIBC), founded in 1965, was formed to promote and develop children's literature that adequately reflects a multiracial society and to effect change in media portrayal of minorities. Past critiques by CIBC of "The Cay" (Theodore Taylor) and "To Kill a Mockingbird" (Harper Lee) are…

Provides a select overview of hypertext and information retrieval tools that support traditional Jewish learning and discusses a project in instructional hypermedia that is applied to teaching, teacher training, and self-instruction in given Bible passages. Highlights include accretion of receptions, hermeneutics, literary appropriations, and…

Explores how social foundations might inform the core required educational psychology course in teacher education, describing undergraduate students' common perceptions of social foundations as required but insignificant, illustrating how this might occur in educational psychology as students are engaged in the normative and critical perspectives…

Argues that although Gardner's conception of human cognition, characterized by a set of multiple and distinct cognitive capabilities, is an advance over the narrow conception of IQ, it runs into fundamental difficulties of a methodological kind and is based on a discredited empiricist theory of knowledge which work with artificial neural networks…

Replies to "The Theory of Multiple Intelligences: A Case of Missing Cognitive Matter," also in this issue. Disagrees about the role theory of knowledge plays in the context of justification of multiple intelligences. Specifically, asserts that the article's criticisms based on philosophy of science claims and work with artificial neural…

Suggests that both critical thinking and obstacles to successful critical thinking are most commonly found in the activities of everyday life. Argues for a connective criticism approach that does not assume critical means adversarial and acknowledges that critical thinking can be used as a means of opening worlds of meaning. (KS)

Explains that looking at a picture book as a work of art entails that one explores the relationship between images, the combination and arrangement of images, style and story, use of color, the relationship between the meaning of the text and images, and the form of the book. (CMK)