Many believe that dance is a democratizing force in academia. Modern dance history is replete with feminist, homosexual, and racial liberation ideologies transcribed through body language. Experiences in planning cross-discipline courses suggest that, without dance, important aesthetic and sociopolitical ideas most fully revealed in nonverbal and…

The present-day curriculum for citizenship education in Slovakia was developed after changes in the political situation brought on by the 1989 Velvet Revolution. The new curriculum reflects refocus from totalitarian indoctrination to education which aims to prepare students for participation in a democratic society. In this document the main…

Three annotated alternatives are offered to replace the customary treatment of national holidays in the school curriculum. (KM)

This article presents one man's critical examination of the question of how the curriculum director can successfully generate and guide the changes in curriculum and instruction in his own area of endeavor. (Author/RK)

Considered the social attitudes of our American culture and the need for an accurate history of our actual pluralism. (Author/RK)

The idea of civil disobedience is clarified, its relationship to the democratic way of life is discussed, and some guidelines are formulated for justifying its use. (Author/KM)

The best hope for the future is to enable our students to develop a mental stance of critical analysis of the basic assumptions on which a democracy operates. (Author)

Details some of the contradictory forces in schools and society, sees a widening gulf between democratic ideals and individual human fulfillment, and identifies the schools as essentially subservient to a monolithic technological system. (Author)

Sets the issue of freedom in a political context and indicates the necessity of adequately considering the conditions of schooling in relationship to freedom to learn, to teach, and to develop. (Author)

The question of lowering the voting age is discussed by Hubert H. Humphrey, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Monroe Sweetland, Charles Gonzales, A. L. Gallop, Lila S. Chase, Arnold Durfee, and Elizabeth A. Maguire. (JL)

A historical overview of American literary and political writings shows the concept of equality of opportunity to have been equivocal, serving the interests of the powerful while placating the powerless, regardless of noble educational objectives. Education can be equitable and equalizing in offering beginnings to diverse individuals only if just…