Survey results are reported about teaching political parties in American colleges and universities. The purpose of the survey was to collect and disseminate information about techniques used in teaching political parties, books assigned most frequently to students, works viewed as most important in the field, and current level of student interest…

The society's and the school's obsessive avoidance of conflict and insistence that "there are two sides to every issue" deadens students to outrage and injustice. (JH)

Project SCATE (Students Concerned About Tomorrow's Environment) is an action-oriented, interdisciplinary program for secondary students in environmental stewardship. Students participate in both scientific investigations of environmental issues and political processes necessary to implement solutions. (Author/SJL)

This paper describes the government agencies and interest groups active in the highly centralized and politicized French educational system, and the reactions of these groups to the reforms of Education Minister Rene Haby, which impact on all segments of elementary, secondary, and teacher education. (SJL)

The general frustration among Iranian students at Southwestern College and other colleges in Oklahoma City were revealed last February in an angry confrontation at the College. Political tensions, racial prejudice of Americans, language barriers, and problems of cultural adjustment are some causes of their frustration. (JMD)

The author argues that some of the modernization strategies undertaken in the less developed countries (LDCs), particularly those pertaining to literacy and "conscientization" programs, might be applied profitably to alleviating the plight of the poor and powerless in underdeveloped areas within the United States. (Author)

Social status, powerlessness, specific support, and taxpayer revolt are evaluated for their effects on willingness of white parents of school-age children to vote for school taxes in desegregating Florida school districts. (Available from Southern Political Science Association, 107 Peabody Hall, University of Florida, Gainesville FL 32611.)…

The author sees a serious need to encourage training and research activities relating to long-term normative change in social, economic, political, and cultural systems, especially of transnational and global scales. He makes the judgment that we are in the midst of a transition process as fundamental as the convulsive process that accompanied the…

Concludes that the idea of practice is so important at this time because the notion of practice (of the fusion of theoretical practical knowledge, of the public and private life, of expert and citizen) is threatening to the institutions and groups whose continued dominance rests in part on their privileged claim to truth: the large corporations,…

Institutional planning is discussed in terms of the long-term technological trend and trends toward: great bureaucracy, a service economy, an older population, urbanization, a middle-class society, participation and direct-action politics, and exponential change. (LBH)

Briefly reviews the research literature on political socialization across several nations and presents the results of a study concerning the level of political knowledge for 453 10- to 22-year-old British youth. Results showed greater knowledge of local and national political leaders than of parlimentary and political party affairs. (JDH)

Examines the historical origins and current consequences of the development of literacy instruction technology. Argues that reliance on technocratic skills-based approaches has resulted in a gradual deskilling of teachers and students with a literal, uncritical, and mechanical relation to reading, writing, and text interpretation. Asserts that…

Although Congress now recognizes education as central to America's economic standing, education should also be supported to sustain democracy. Scholar R. Freeman Butts argues that civic learning is education's "prime purpose." Administrators should work to instill commitment to the common good so that America continues to select rational, humane…

While the "Standards for Evaluations of Educational Programs, Projects and Materials" provides a good checklist of prerequisites, such standards do not guarantee indisputable outcomes. Reanalysis of reading comprehension and mathematics mean achievement data from an international evaluation study illustrates how political bias can…

Discusses the connection of the arts and art education with politics, advocating that art educators can improve the status of arts in U.S. schools by applying political leverage and the insights of political science. Examines the Finnish system of arts education as a possible model for the United States. (GEA)