Reviews how the educational planner can examine trends in society and education and relate them to facility planning. The following trends are examined: (1) societal; (2) school curriculum; (3) instruction; and (4) educational technology. (MLF)

By examining the role of the teacher in Japanese schools, we can discover directions to follow and to avoid in developing the teaching profession in our own country. (Author/TE)

Discusses the research on illegitimacy in the United States and welfare's role in promoting it. The author examines where analysts agree and disagree in the debate and concludes with a discussion concerning black illegitimacy rates compared with the rise in welfare payment amounts. (GLR)

Describes a study of longevity and older adults' economic and educational status in Nigeria, based on interviews with 332 adults over 64 years old. Determinants of longevity include faith in God, heredity, modest living, and contentment. Finds illiteracy linked to poverty, and most interviewees ill-prepared for postretirement life. (DMM)

A study investigated interpretations of gestures by three groups of students (n=81 total), some at least second-generation French, some first-generation French-born of Italian parents, and some recent immigrants to France. Unanticipated differences between and within groups were found. Implications are seen for second-language instruction and for…

Examines the linear or bureaucratic career models (dominant in career research, metaphors, paradigms, and ideologies) which maintain career myths of flexibility and individualized routes to success in organizations incapable of offering such versatility. Describes nonlinear career models which offer suggestive metaphors for re-visioning careers…

This article traces the evolution of Gandhi's exemplary relationship with nature through vignettes from his long life. Annotated are the religious roots and the environmental origins of his philosophical development, his contact with vegetarians and theosophists, and his responses to a variety of issues raised by the cohabitation of humans with…

It is argued that the field of second and foreign language learning must begin to incorporate a sociocultural perspective of oral language use into language pedagogy and that the study of oral practices is a valuable way to start. Classroom practices are suggested. (86 references) (Author/LB)

Demographic patterns of immigration to the United States from Ireland are examined, and a scenario is projected for Irish immigration in the twenty-first century. It is argued that the wave of Irish immigration of the 1980s will prove to be a last gasp of a 200-year-old tradition. (SLD)

Explains several diagrams showing the evolution of significant film genres in context of each other and relevant historical trends. Figures present: (1) relationships of decades of U.S. history to popular film genres; (2) hero types by genre and decade; and (3) hero types as exemplified by various genres. (AEF)

Discusses J. R. Searle's theories about language, based on three works dating from 1969-95. Looks at the distinction made between constitutive rules and regulative rules of language use, his approach to analyzing speech acts, the view of language as a means of stating facts, and the role that our conception of science plays in Searle's theorizing.…

The context for learning, education, and arts has altered dramatically, as has the cultural environment for educators and those involved in artistic and creative activities. Several crucial developments have transformed the terrain of technology, education, art, and culture, profoundly affecting not only the social and political structure of…

Two or more types of suicide may be distinguished by a given culture. Gender differences in the cultural construction of suicide options are examined. Ethnographic and historical data from Native Americans of the Great Plains, Muslim societies in Southeast Asia, and tribal societies of the Amazon area are analyzed. (Author/EMK)

The role of gender and sociocultural factors in men's and women's suicidal behavior were studied. A retrospective case-note analysis compared sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of males and females admitted to a university hospital. Means and reasons for behavior are related to cultural factors, focusing particularly on the situation of…

This article uses a sociocultural framework to propose an expanded view of least restrictive environment. It focuses on the individual child in interaction with the social organization of specific activity settings rather than the physical location (regular or special education classroom), which can be either facilitating or restrictive in either…