The article reviews campus climate and trends for each decade from the 1940s to the present. Noted are such influences as the returning veterans (1940s), desegregation and Sputnik (1950s), the civil rights struggle (1960s), female rights (1970s), and financial pressures (1980s). (DB)

Case studies of company education and training in Japan reveal the influence on organizational learning of such sociocultural factors as tradition, belief in self-improvement and literacy, learning for the sake of the group, exclusivity of corporate culture, and the uniqueness of being Japanese. (SK)

The three following myths are discussed: 1) language is culture, 2) a "Francophony" exists, and 3) there is a dialogue between cultures. The concept of "interculture" is then examined. (MSE)

Interpol data from 69 countries indicate that the relationship between female percentage of arrests and national development status is mediated by opportunity for "female" consumer crimes and formalization of social control (which makes female crime more visible), but not by gender equality or female economic marginality. Contains 49 references.…

Describes a South Pacific social studies curriculum development project. Points out that educators must constantly examine the implicit connections between the intentions of schooling and assumptions in its sociocultural context. (JOW)

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)