Sophisticated public relations is being practiced in the Middle East. However, the models used in that region are not identical to American models, nor are they identical to those in other Western countries usually considered part of the "First World." In particular, Moslem culture heavily influences Middle East practice. Can the ethics…

A study of national identity and social integration in two multilingual societies, Canada and Switzerland, examines the relations between Quebec and anglophone Canada and between French and German Switzerland. First, the historical setting for the emergence of multilingualism is outlined for both countries, and the demography of the major language…

Many historical and traditional symbols are recorded in cemeteries. The symbols and motifs on tombstones profile individual lives, but they also convey information regarding a society's order, values, religious practices, and realities at the time of the individual's death. The primary goals of this research effort were to identify a variety of…

The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to compare the world view of students of the Traditional Kickapoo Tribe, the most culturally conservative Native American group in the United States, with the world view encountered in the science classroom. This qualitative study investigated world view expressed in science instruction by…

This book provides the educational practitioner and community participants with the practical knowledge needed to follow a participatory governance process within an existing bureaucracy. Chapter 1 presents the principles of participatory governance and identifies various mind-sets that have developed over many decades of traditional education.…

This study examined curriculum deliberation and decision-making in higher education through selected interviews with 11 university teachers in 11 different disciplines. All were full-time and tenure-track or already tenured. After completing individual interviews the participants gathered for a culminating discussion. Examination of the data found…

This paper documents a culturally specific language strength for developing number sense among Oneida- and Lakota-speaking primary students. Qualitative research methods scaffolded this research study: culture informants were interviewed and interviews were transcribed and coded for analysis; culture documents were selected for analysis; and…

This book examines the role teachers and schools can and should play in educating young people to become good citizens in a democratic society. This book is about becoming and being civil in the everyday world that all live in and how certain virtues and values of ordinary people stand out as important to the maintenance and flourishing of a…

A study of 66 female and 56 male nurses employed in central Florida investigated the relationship between nursing experience and sex-role orientation and values. Nursing experience and degrees were similarly distributed across genders in the sample of nurses. The Bem Sex Role Inventory, a checklist of stereotypically feminine and masculine…

Students cannot trace all the sources that inform who they are at a given moment, but all of them can explore a wide range of sources that inform their sense of self, clarify their values and their relationships to the world and others in it. Writing about family fits especially well into a sequence in which students narrate a personal experience,…

The General Accounting Office (GAO) examined the techniques used by companies to perpetuate or change beliefs and values. GAO staff discussed organizational culture with five academics who have researched the subject and with officials of nine large companies that have diverse, global interests and that are concerned with inventory management.…

This book demonstrates the centrality of caring in educational administration. As a conceptual framework that emphasizes personal development and the cultivation of community, an ethic of caring can be used to improve academic performance, combat social problems, and rethink organizational strategies. Chapter 1 draws from scholarship in a number…

This book develops and presents a theory of the curriculum and pedagogy for common, general education. Part 1 inquires into how people can know values and obligations and how this knowledge should affect education. In an analysis of the moral crisis, the book seeks a resolution by examining the great ethical theories of modern times. Each theory…

This essay demonstrates the origins, rationale and utility for social cartography as a process capable of portraying the interrelations of truth and value choices in the field of educational policy studies. The article focuses on the particular domain of environmental education-related discourse while presenting both a primary conceptual mapping…

Whether there is a relationship between violence-related variables and the motivation for parenthood was studied, and the difference between African Americans and Whites in terms of their motivation for parenthood and in relation to violence related variables and other structural and cultural factors was studied. Data are from the National Opinion…