Teachers for a Democratic Culture, a newly formed organization of humanities scholars seeking to broaden the undergraduate curriculum, is challenging criticism of scholarship and college teaching. Members maintain that such issues as political correctness and free speech on campus have been misrepresented and unfairly attacked by conservative…

The majority of Fundamentalist Christians are not political activists calling for a relentless cultural war; Fundamentalist Christians are a diverse group whose members do not necessarily share common views on social, economic, and political matters. To head off a crisis, educators should explain to community members the logic behind the school…

Discusses the social and political contexts of proposed British educational reforms designed to address social justice and summarizes the discussion at the Association of Local Education Advisory Officers in Multicultual Education (ALAOME) March 1998 meeting. The ALAOME has drawn up a list of characteristics of effective schools in a multicultural…

Examines the current and future projections for the federal budget and the two processes affecting fiscal policy: authorization/appropriation measures and budget resolution/reconciliation. Knowledge of the federal budget process shows social-work students how fiscal constraints have been used as weapons against social-welfare programs, and allows…

Provides a theoretical framework for professional-values education in social work that incorporates personal, social, political, and professional values dimensions, each with explicit learning objectives and educational outcomes. The currently prevalent infusion model of values education clarifies values but does not help students integrate…

Examines the learning of Arabic by Israeli Jewish children. Finds that children displayed negative attitudes toward learning Arabic, but had positive attitudes toward the classroom situation. Also finds that classroom situation was the best predictor of learning success. Suggests that children are influenced more by classroom environment than by…

The 42 brief reports in this section deal with a variety of issues related to the status of blacks in higher education, both as students and as faculty members. Highlights the academic achievement of African Americans, profiles of notable figures in black education, and current political issues related to higher education for black students. (SLD)

Evaluates the issue of producing and controlling the memories of the Holocaust as an example of the struggle over self-identity and the recognition of "the other" as a moral subject. Analyzes Israeli refusals to acknowledge the genocides/holocausts of other peoples as a test case for a humanist-oriented moral education. (DSK)

In light of declining enrollments and political pressures, this article suggests a strategic-planning approach for state-supported special schools for sensory-disabled students to evaluate their current and future roles in the education of these students and to develop a future-oriented strategic plan. (DB)

Explores how educational systems handle confusion among different historic roots, cultural values, and world views. Finding universally accepted values that cut across the diverse cultures comprising human society remains an important teacher responsibility. Educators must move beyond comforting certainties toward a profound understanding of…

Recounts some experiences of African-Caribbean children in Leicester (England) schools in the 1960s and 1970s. Argues that these can be understood in relation to cultural attitudes and the policies of the Local Education Authority, which were, in turn, related to government policies of the time. (DSK)

Explores reorganization of secondary education in a small British town. Conceptualizes six headteachers and the education director as social players engaged in seven transactional game situations during reorganization, showing how political changes that transformed the public-sector education provision also created conditions conducive to…

Explores the syllabus reform initiative that occurred in South Africa as a means to combat apartheid education. Summarizes the political context in which the syllabus revision project emerged, highlights the political process through which the syllabus revision unfolded, and concludes with an assessment of the political consequences of this…

Demonstrates that nationalist pressure, especially from the Gold Coast (Ghana), was the crucial force behind the British Colonial Office's decision to promote higher education in Anglophone West Africa. It places the issues of establishing African universities into the context of an evolving colonial policy of neocolonialism. (SLD)

In Canada, the United States, and England, educational policies favoring greater parental choice have renewed interest in religion's place in public schools; conversely, religious parents' lobbying for school choice has influenced educational policy. This paper explores change dynamics in Alberta, Canada, focusing on micropolitical program and…