This article describes the static or declining economic conditions of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden and relates these conditions to restrictions on education, the relationship between education and employment, control of education by governing authorities, and the employment conditions of teachers. (JDH)

Recent national reports on educational reform are manifestations of capitalist and state influence but such pressure does not guarantee reform enactment. The contradictory nature of the school's position in a democratic capitalistic state and teachers' and students' resistance to reform offer an opportunity to challenge dominant ideology and…

One hundred thirty undergraduate communications students were administered a two-part survey designed to test their abilities as visual interpreters. Results indicate student respondents were surprisingly inaccurate in determining the correct meaning elements of political cartoons, perhaps because of visual illiteracy, cultural lag of the cartoon,…

In the mid-1920s, a virulent renewal of the age-old German dispute regarding what form German schools should take resulted in a political crisis. Worsened Catholic-liberal relations contributed to a split in the bourgeois middle, making political cooperation more difficult and hindering a moderate evolution of the Weimar state. (RM)

Discusses the issue of merit pay, its becoming a political issue for national politicians, and reactions of teacher union leaders. Examples illustrating individual merit pay systems in five school districts are presented. (MBR)

Discussion of the problems which confront African library administrators in the establishment of a new university library focuses on administrative, social, political, and economic problems. Educational systems in Africa are seen to be the prime key to development of more and better university library services. Footnotes are included. (EJS)

Discusses the First National Congress for Environmental Education Features: Policies and Practices (Burlington, Vermont, August 12-17, 1983), including 10 recommendations by John J. Padalino on political action, information dissemination, and cooperation between groups. A resolution passed by participants calls for integration of environmental…

Explores psychological reasons why educators and parents resist dealing with the issue of nuclear war. Describing individual resistance (avoidance) and collective resistance (commitment to a nation's economic and political assumptions), the author discusses implications for nuclear education. (SK)

Students were given questionnaires asking their responses on public issues. Each questionnaire contained a bogus distribution of responses from other students. Results indicated that the students were influenced in the direction of the bogus consensus only on those issues to which they had a low commitment. (PD)

Richard C. Atkinson, acting head of the National Science Foundation, gives his views on problems facing NSF and the science community and predicts growing support for basic research in the next decade. (MLH)

Senator Bond discusses the current state of the Civil Rights movement. (Author/AM)

Notes that between 1910 and 1941 some changes occurred in the politics of black education in Chicago. The early reliance on the city's white elite faded in the wake of the mass migration during and after World War I and the larger black population gradually earned the black community political rewards which could influence school affairs.…

Puts forth the notion that the extent to which there are validly alternative realities which exist, either within the same culture or between cultures, there exist the opportunity and the necessity for the construction of disciplines for capturing, examining, communicating, and preserving that reality. (Author/AM)

Described is a social studies unit designed to help elementary school children understand the process of elections through participation in a mock election. Teaching preparation is discussed and activities for each day of the 18-day unit are presented. (Author/DB)

In an effort to relate higher education more effectively to the modern world and to instill in it a greater degree of social responsibility, alternative models for liberal education are suggested that use new knowledge and disciplines and address social and environmental opportunities, along with economic, political and international issues, and…