An overview of Mexican history since the Revolution (1917) examines the centrality of the middle class in the development of the corporativist state and its recent unraveling, the role assigned to and played by education within the corporativist political configuration, and how a corporativist state conditions educational systems and practices. A…

Explores the challenge of providing all future citizens with an appropriate quantitative literacy by means of teaching mathematics through useful applications with local and global perspectives. (Author/KHR)

Claims that the way that minority students are socialized is related to retention and persistence. Discusses mentoring programs offered in community colleges that socialize and retain minority students. Explores the Puente Program as an example of a successful program that can aid minority Latino students. (Contains 35 references.) (MZ)

Gives a definition for "trends" and describes ways to use and find trends. Discusses different types of trends including trends for academic libraries, trends for other types of libraries/general librarianship, trends for umbrella entities, and general societal trends. Concludes by giving recommendation for finding trends from various sources. (MZ)

Contributes to a reflection on the possibilities and the limits of a non-naive use of the history of mathematics for educational purposes. Discusses a problem related to the hypotheses that make it possible to confront past and modern conceptual developments. Contains 45 references. (DDR)

Qualitatively examined sociocultural factors associated with smoking attitudes and practices among low-income, African American young adults smokers and nonsmokers. Focus group data indicated that specific contextual and familial factors contributed to smoking initiation, maintenance, and cessation (e.g., strong parental discipline, limited…

Presents a rationale for using social roles as the basis for improving the community college. Presents implications for the community college in the areas of curriculum development and faculty and student services, as well as implications for the community college as an institution. (Contains 20 references.) (AUTH/NB)

Analyzes the context and status of mathematics education reform in Malawi through four developments in the reform of secondary education. Describes attempts to increase access to secondary education for the majority of Malawians. Suggests that limitations in the reform process are a function of inadequate understanding of the social-contextual…

Examines the impact of sociocultural and environmental stressors on alcohol abuse and dependence in the Hispanic family system. Given the cultural values of this population, a structural systems approach is proposed as an adjunct to other forms of treatment during the recovery process. Presents portions of an actual case study involving a…

Asserts that the key to changing attitudes about education in the schools is through aesthetic education, emphasizing the role of art and visual imagery in today's world and the conceptual relationships between art and society. Explores different trends and includes examples of differences between media and conceptual approaches to art education.…

Explores factors that affect student learning and the well-publicized achievement gap between students from different ethnic and socio-economic groups. Poses some questions and offers some thoughts on how beliefs, attitudes, values, and emotions about teaching and learning, nature of schools, culture, and language effect equity in mathematics…

Presents an anthropological approach used in French research and the theory of instrumentation developed in cognitive ergonomics. Shows how these frameworks allow an approach to the educational use of CAS technology, focusing on the unexpected complexity of instrumental genesis, mathematical needs of instrumentation, status of instrumented…

A work-based learning initiative was examined in interviews and focus groups with 110 disaffected/at-risk British youth. Results show how configurations of networks and values at macro, meso, and micro levels enhance or constrain social learning and the ability to develop forms of cultural practice and social capital that aid school-to-work…

Analyzes autobiographical narratives and uses the collective story as a format to tell personal stories of learning and teaching English in different sociocultural contexts. Discusses how local, socioculturally-situated knowledge can contribute to the knowledge of the discipline and a re-visioning of the field. (Author/VWL)

Describes ethnographic survey of professional mentoring relationships in rural Colorado mountain community. Describes characteristics, dynamics, phases, and motivations behind mentoring relationships. Suggests that social workers identify and support rural mentor relationships. Suggests direction for future study. (TES)