Analyzes some of the roles which popular singers play in France. These roles are found to be poetic, political, and cultural, and are found to be tied to a socioeconomic context. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Area/cultural studies have not enjoyed their rightful place in foreign language teaching because of their lack of orientation. They should not only be seen as revealing "sets" of data; they should be analyzed for patterns in terms of the target area rather than the native culture. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This article presents and discusses some exercises designed to help the second language learner develop both receptive and productive sociolinguistic competence. (Author)

This paper is a response to Michael Apple's paper, "What Postmodernists Forget: Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge." The paper advocates Michael's identification of the current dangers and processes of the growth of new right ideologies in the development of subjectivity, society, and education. The differences in success in the education…

This issue of the "NCEDL Spotlights" describes the content of a new book, "The Transition to Kindergarten," based on a national transitions synthesis conference sponsored by the National Center for Early Development and Learning. The document delineates the chapter topics and describes four trends expected to have significant effect on the…

This study examined and described e-mail mediated instructional conversations conducted during a content area reading and writing course. Participants in the study included undergraduate students from three different content specialty areas, as well as an instructor who mediated the conversational interactions via e-mail communications.…

The path adolescents take from childhood to adulthood is a product of social, economic, political, and technological forces. These forces may facilitate youths preparation to become healthy adults, or they may leave youth unprepared for adulthood. Knowledgeable projections are vital in shaping the agenda for research; for alerting educators,…

This study investigated students' generalizations of numeric situations through the use of a whole-class teaching experiment in which students were provided problem situations in order to: (1) trace students' understanding of recursive and explicit reasoning; and (2) describe the sociomathematical norms and classroom practices that were…

This paper discusses the adequacy of using a collaborative model as research approach for studying the dynamics of a multicultural mathematics classroom. The goal of the research is the analysis of the immigrant students' processes of adapting to a new cultural context, from their home and school culture to the school culture that hosts them,…

In the 1970s W. Doise, G. Mugny and A.-N. Perret-Clermont underlined for the first time the essential role played by social interactions in cognitive development. Since then, many authors have been studying social interactions and their mediating role in knowledge apprehension and in skills acquisition. Inspired by L. Vygotsky's theory, many…

Early childhood institutions underwent a dramatic transformation in the twentieth century, with the perceptions of children not attending preschool reflecting shifts in political, educational, and social opinions regarding the best place for the rearing and education of young children. This lecture presents some historical "maps" of…

The biology, the behavioral, the cultural, and the social dimensions of agression are reviewed in relation to the role of teachers in the role of learning about conflict and conflict resolution. (KM)

Comparison with others is a way cultures can again encounter the law, which from the emergence of sexuality, has made the genesis of life dependent on a relationship between two beings. (Author/GB)

Appended is text of the song Duerme, negrito'' (Sleep, Little Black Boy) by Atahualpa Yupanqui, as recorded by Mercedes Sosa on the album El grito de la tierra'' (The Cry of the Land), Philips 6347005. (RS)

Author attempts to evaluate some issues common to this journal, such as, bridging the gap between research and theory on the one hand and classroom teaching on the other. (Author/RK)