Describes a course for inservice teacher education involving a transdisciplinary approach to environmental studies. (SH)

Article focused on Hawaii's community colleges, their governance, financial and political concerns. (RK)

Astride an international boundary, Yaqui Indians have made themselves felt in important ways in both Mexico and the United States. The article discusses the fairly detailed record of the unique Yaqui experience during the past 450 years. (KM)

Part 1 of a continued article. (DD)

Examines alternatives to the technology and associated deleterious effects characteristic of advanced societies. (JR)

This chapter discusses the importance of political power in educational decision-making and examines in turn methods of gathering data for political analyses and types of conceptual models that are useful in studying the politics of education. Five methods for gathering political data are reviewed, including survey analysis, reputational analysis,…

This chapter argues that political scientists have been more interested in studying political processes than in studying who receives what benefits from the political process. To illustrate his thesis that few political scientists have linked the political process to policy outcomes, the author briefly discusses four general categories of public…

The purpose of this paper is to explore women's perceptions of themselves as politicians and of politics generally in our society, and to explore men's perceptions of women as politicians. (Author)

Four problems of the regulation of technological development are reviewed: Djerassi's study of the regulation of chemical birth control agents; the downfall of the American supersonic airliner; climate modification; and genetic engineering. The author examines technology and the nature of bureaucratic institutions with respect to the political…

A survey was conducted to determine the extent and content of newspaper coverage of foreign policy issues in the 1980 United States presidential campaign. Fifty daily newspapers from every region of the country were selected randomly based on circulation. A list of 757 news events was divided into party and nonparty events, and the party events…

Although Democrat Jimmy Carter and Republican Ronald Reagan appealed to many of the same basic American values in the 1980 presidential campaign debate, there were some subtle but major differences in their value appeals. Other than attempting to convince his audience that his policies had been and would be successful and that Reagan's policies…