In this article, the authors ask: What is the difference between an assumed image of empowerment and a "real" image of empowerment? How can feminist educators help students to tell the difference? What do the discourses of current third-wave feminism and postfeminism teach women about representation, empowerment, and their place in the realm of…

A key ongoing debate in environmental education practice and its research relates to the content and goals of environmental education programmes. Specifically, there is a long history of debate between advocates of educational perspectives that emphasise the teaching of science concepts and those that seek to more actively link environmental and…

Deng Xiaopeng's rise to leadership in the People's Republic of China has been accompanied by massive economic and structural reforms. Some claim that these reforms led to the rise of the pro-democracy student movements of 1987 and 1989, and there has been a notable amount of scholarly investigation into their political and economic consequences.…

This study explores the development of youth stratum consciousness in four groups of youth: white collar and blue collar students and nonstudents. The research employs a social movement paradigm suggesting an explicit developmental sequence from initial awareness through crystallized ideology and behavior expression. The data clearly provide…

An undergraduate program, focusing on problem-solving and based on volunteer faculty, is developed to create a common undergraduate base for professional and action-oriented graduate education. (Author/JH)

Described the educational efforts of the Manchester Statistical Society to assist in promoting the progress of social improvement in the manufacturing population by which they were surrounded during the third and fourth decade of the nineteenth century. (Author/RK)

A case study of a voter's referendum on charter revision of the Hartford, Connecticut, City Council in 1972 is presented as a basis for analyzing forces operating in a community referendum as it relates to educational policy-making and to identify some effective strategies employed in the campaign. (EH)

The ideological proximity of historian Harry Elmer Barnes to the New Left revisionist historians of today are examined. Both Barnes and the New Left emphasize the need for a deliberate and conscious effort to use history as an instrument of social transformation. (DE)

From 1773-94, the Educational Commission of Poland and Lithuania reorganized teacher preparation, reformed the curriculum, secularized education, and related the curriculum to the agricultural and economic needs of society. (Author/DW)

Women have been believed to be peacemakers throughout the centuries. Whether this is biologically determined or a socially structured has been a matter of controversy. This study examined gender differences and the social dynamics of peace movement participation. Subjects (N=272) were members of a local nuclear freeze campaign in 1984.…

This paper presents a discussion of events within national sport organizations that have recently addressed the problem of homophobia in sports; in particular, the social, professional, and political harassment of lesbian women who are career athletes. A brief overview is given of the stance of feminists, both liberal humanist and radical, on the…

The argument undergirding this essay is that the new environmental movement in the United States is partly a symbolic issue. Some liberal or radical members of key strategic elites who are alienated from the social and political system are drawn to concrete issues which serve as a surrogate for a real criticism of the hegemonic structure. The…

The staged performance of oral history narratives scripted by interpreters/ethnographers has significant potential for instigating social change. Recent articles by Dwight Conquergood and Kristin Langellier provide the basis for merging ethnography, oral history and social action projects. Narratives from a 1984 farm crisis project illustrate this…

This questionnaire-style pamphlet was designed for child advocates, community activists, professionals, public officials, policymakers, parents, citizens, members of the media, political leaders, and those seeking public office in 1988. The focus is primarily on issues affecting American children and families and on facts having implications for…

Ways of integrating consumer education with an inquiry approach into the social studies curriculum are described in three categories: the marketplace as resource, value clarification and consumer behavior, and community action projects. (JH)