Reviews a "passionately intelligent manifesto" which puts forward proposals for a new kind of college. (Editor)

Suggests that experiential education can be best understood as action accompanied by an attitude that embraces the adventure of learning, regardless of the format or environment in which learning occurs. Views current growth market as an adversity that may distract experiential educators from mission of conceptualizing meaningful educational…

Keynesian pedagogy, in which the principle of reciprocal causation is coupled with the imperative of increasing personal self-esteem through education, is unworkable and unproductive even after two decades of use. (MSE)

The field of education is spending too much effort on managing the schools and too little on redirecting student self-expression away from violence and destruction and toward self-understanding and self-development. (MSE)

Discusses the characteristics and problems of the students at Institute San Damiano in Goiania, Goias, Brazil; educational attitudes in Brazil; and efforts by the schools and its teachers to participate actively in the lives of their students. (CBC)

Observes the resistance to change that permeates communication education, and some of the critical issues arising from this attitude. Describes the changes in journalism education implemented at Rutgers, specifically the combining of communication, library science, and journalism into one school, and how this change addresses the need for…

Article attempts to close the gap between the terms "humanities" and "humanities education," between scholars and practitioners, between a body of content for study and the process by which that content is taught. (Author/RK)

The theology of education is currently an active field of interdisciplinary study. The nature of the relation between theology and educational theory is considered. (Author/RK)

In its second annual National Survey of Latinos, the Pew Hispanic Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation extensively explored Latinos attitudes towards public schools and a variety of education issues. Substantial comparison samples of whites and African Americans were similarly polled. The survey reveals a diversity of opinion among the nation's…

Junior high school students from one school were asked to list the things they liked and disliked about school in order to develop an instrument for assessing the attitudes of junior high school students in a different school. (HMD)

Since alienation was so very strongly related to racial solidarity responses in education, even for the more educated blacks, any expansion in feelings of hopelessness and despair in the black community could have significant implications for the future of black education. (Authors)

Career development as a new focus for education has the potential to restructure substantially the processes and activities of education, modify the values and attitudes of educators, and maximize the opportunities for student involvement and responsibility. (Authors)

In the course of work with the Survey of Opinions about Education,'' the writers were interested to know whether it was sensitive to faking and, if so, to identify some conditions under which it might take place. (Authors/CB)