Discusses how American cultural values have impacted traditional Confucian values and traditional Korean perspectives on legislation, policy, and special-education systems for people with visual impairments. The need for continuation of the transformation to enhance the educational system for people with visual impairments is stressed. (CR)

Presents a lesson plan for grades 9 through 12 that examines the making of foreign policy based on human-rights concerns. Helps students to understand the complexities of international relations and to clarify the beliefs and values about the appropriate role of human rights when making foreign policy. Provides two handouts. (CMK)

Character educators can recognize religion's contribution to our culture while honoring the First Amendment. Schools can help students understand religion's role in our nation's beginnings, major social-reform movements, and individuals' motivation; construct special curricula; and encourage students to tap inner resources to address social issues…

Reports an examination of the social values of senior students in a high school with a culturally and linguistically diverse population in South Australia. Social-value patterns were determined using the Schwartz Values Questionnaire and compared with those of a control group of Australian-born students of Australian parents from culturally and…

Explores why universities are an appropriate and central partner in the effort to develop and sustain better schools and communities, and what can be done by government, foundations, and higher education to create and sustain comprehensive, strongly symbiotic, mutually beneficial school-community-university partnerships based on the American…

Discusses the role of ideology in the World Bank's funding decisions. Describes the issues of literacy and development, especially as related to the World Bank. Concludes that adult literacy programs, which have relatively unpredictable and uncontrollable outcomes, may represent a commitment that, politically and culturally, is too risky for the…

Examines the dimensions of environmental quality and socioeconomic concern among residents of a small but spatially and demographically dynamic city in southern Africa. Environmental quality issues compete with socioeconomic concerns for people's attention, and the issues are more recognized by better-educated and well-off residents. Concludes…

Examines the relationships between self-esteem and social respect in which 596 U.S. high school students completed two measures of self-esteem and the Social Behaviors Scale. Reveals that scores for total and global self-esteem were significant predictors of total social respect and seniors reported greater respect for appropriate language,…

Investigates the five factors that affect teachers' use of discussion as a means to promote more frequent use of that strategy. Shows that teachers' perceptions of their students influence their teaching techniques. Concludes that familiarizing future teachers about discussion as a teaching strategy could encourage its use in the classroom. (CMK)

The ethical tendencies of university business students from Denmark (n=297) and the United States (n=183) were examined by analyzing their responses to ethical dilemmas on issues of coercion and control, conflict of interest, physical environment, paternalism, and personal integrity. Findings indicated that students from both countries had similar…

Service learning holds tremendous potential for expanding and enriching children's education. However, community polarization can result when such programs are implemented in schools that are not freely chosen by families of children attending them. Parents must be allowed to choose schools reflecting their priorities and beliefs. (MLH)

Gilligan's work at Harvard University has centered about the study of female thinking and moral decision making. She and her colleagues tried to repair the omission of girls' voices from the psychological literature. She is currently studying boys' narrowed self-expression and wants schools to amplify children's voices. (MLH)

Explores how ideas of political economy shaped the culture of U.S. high schools in the nineteenth century and discusses reasons for the creation of high schools. Stresses the role that textbooks and the high school curriculum played in disseminating the economic, political, and social values of the time to students. (CMK)

Believes that convincing Congress to offer financial support to the arts is not the way to promote the arts in schools. Asserts that the arts are not valued within society and instead the goal should be to give individuals a reason to value artistic expression to gain support for the arts. (CMK)

Summarizes proceedings of a 1-day seminar co-sponsored by NAMTA and Taliesin West, home of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Discusses authentic progress in educational practices such as those of Maria Montessori and Wright, whose innovative legacies became traditions within their fields. Concludes that innovation comes when founding…