Taught comparative animal physiology to undergraduates (n=31) using student-centered (open-ended) investigations in small groups. Questionnaires and discussion found that students appeared to value learning through their own experience as highly as they did being taught and valued the opportunity to establish and develop skills less easily…

Biography and other forms of life writing have been neglected sources in teaching educational administration, chiefly due to the field's positivistic orientation. Changing ideas about organizational realities, administrative values, the management/leadership dichotomy, and reflective practice should create new openings for biography in…

The author worked with 10 students at an inner-city elementary school. This case study illuminates the interplay between theory, practice, and values by describing effective techniques of intervention in a situation that reflects social pathology. Traditional African values are incorporated in counseling interventions with disruptive male…

The Eight-Year Study was a landmark attempt to design, implement, and evaluate democratic secondary schools. Reexamining this 1930s initiative allows us to consider how democratic priorities can transform educational practice, evaluation, and policy analysis. The norms, values, and technologies that currently guide mainstream analysis are poorly…

Environmental issues that can be explored in social science courses include problems with potential to cause serious or irreversible change to an ecosystem or biosphere. Areas for discussion include: environmental attitudes, values, and behaviors; the environmental movement; risk perceptions; and the political economy of the environment and…

This article analyzes how the dominant image of reality in the field of learning disabilities is derived from the diagnostic model. The article proposes an alternative, normative conception of education that emphasizes the importance of caring, social relatedness, and community participation. (Author/DB)

An ethnographic study analyzed parent-child socialization in Mexican-American immigrant and first-generation families in California. Collectivism characterized the childrearing of the immigrant parents and remained a value for the first-generation parents, though socialization practices shifted in an individualistic direction. Both generations…

Outlines a model for assessing the cultural competence of graduate students in social work. Describes objectives for cultural knowledge covering human development, life events, care giving patterns, nature, time, spirituality, and group (versus individual) focus; skill objectives related to diagnosis, interviewing techniques, psychosocial…

Japanese schools succeed in promoting student achievement because they meet children's human needs, thereby fostering strong, positive emotional bonds between child and school. Several factors make Japanese schools extraordinarily responsive, including their whole-child, values-rich pedagogy; caring, supportive community; group orientation; and…

Tested whether individuals possessing traditional sex role attitudes could have their rape-related attitudes influenced by a psychoeducational intervention that had been effective with less traditional individuals. Results revealed that subjects who received intervention adhered less to rape myths and expressed less rape-supportive attitudes than…

Discusses the problem-solving attempts of second-grade students while solving a rate problem. (MKR)

This article discusses theories about knowledge and schooling and describes democratic classrooms. Students need empowerment to have a voice in curriculum design and governance. Schools that foster student voice must establish conditions for democratic talk in class. Students must be taught to respect others; they cannot be allowed to denigrate…

Researchers developed a profile of health promoting adults by surveying 830 health promoting individuals. Results highlighted psychosocial variables most strongly associated with health promoting behavior: total self-concept, physical self, moral-ethical self, self-satisfaction, behavior, and chance health locus of control. Demographic variables…

Contrasts Native American respect for children and the elderly with mainstream U.S. neglect of these groups. Offers examples of elders' authority in many traditional Indian societies. Reviews pressures for change and their impact. Highlights Salish Kootenai College's and Turtle Mountain College's efforts to support families. (DMM)

Criticizes the Reagan and Bush administrations for denying that socioeconomic context must be considered in educational reform. Advances critical multiculturalism as a way of understanding how certain knowledges become legitimated over others under the guise of objectivity and neutrality. Contends that all knowledge is situated knowledge and is…