Two practical problems faced by national youth organisations devoted to the transmission of European classical music-making across the generations are: (1) how to assist individual pre-professional young musicians to enter their desired career path; and (2) how, in the interests of social justice, to provide access to music-educational…

In a study of international student security, consisting of 200 intensive interviews with students, resident onshore in Australia, it was found that two thirds of the group had experienced problems of loneliness and/or isolation, especially in the early months. According to Weiss, students experience both "personal loneliness" because of…

This article presents the outcomes of recent research into adult education programs and experiences in the Shire of Campaspe, a region in northern Victoria. Research data of people from diverse cultural backgrounds reveal how individuals can utilize adult education as a space to explore their own social and cultural isolation in a regional…

The purpose of this article is to discuss findings that investigate the experiences of Filipina/o American college students at a large, research I institution in southern California. Qualitative data were collected through one-on-one interviews to elicit responses related to the campus environment, sense of campus community/sense of belonging, and…

A disabled person speaks about the culture of disability and the threat that this concept makes to the world of "normality." He stresses the need to recognize the inherent value of disabled people as persons and the importance of enabling disability culture to be one of the many strands in a multicultural society. (SK)

U.S. higher education institutions are enrolling increasing numbers of long-term immigrant students, who belong to Generation 1.5. Essentially beginning college while still in the process of learning English, these students often struggle in higher education, and they present new challenges to college writing instructors. This study explored the…

The subject of this article is Dutch Jewish education since 1945, attended by some 20% of the Jewish children in the region of Amsterdam. I consider the motives of the advocates of Jewish day schools, for whom the Holocaust was an important argument from a psychological, educational, social and cultural perspective in rejecting multi-religious…

The first three of these books are attempts by numerous writers to describe, analyze, explain, castigate and remedy the present wave of commercialized pornography in advanced capitalist societies. The fourth is a manual of sexual instruction for adolescents and the fifth a comprehensive account of the Abortion Act 1967. (Author/RK)

Describes the theater of ideology in Nazi Germany, its goals, attitudes, and content, and its effect on German theater to this day. (AN)

Considered a "peripheral" nationality even at home, Maltese immigrants in Toronto are further marginalized. Organized adult education offers few opportunities to affirm community identity and bridge cultures. Community-based education should offer Maltese and English instruction, critical literacy, and interaction and dialogue with other…

This paper presents an empirical study of the social situations of first year Chinese students in one UK University. The study used in-depth interviews and constructivist grounded theory to investigate the social situations of 19 foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate students in 2004-05. This exploratory approach was informed by Siu's…

A report on a project which uses modern technology in its attempt to reach and teach the geographically and culturally isolated Indians of British Columbia. (LS)

Describes the fervent political and cultural nationalism of German Americans in Chicago during World War I. Discusses how this nationalism, combined with ethnic conflict between Germans and Slavs, helped to sway public opinion against Chicago's German community. (GC)