This is an analysis of California history of the shifting of language policies from Spanish to English, as an Official Language The focus is English as an imposed language that from the beginning of schooling policies stifle a process of language acquisition for the majority of Spanish speakers. In 1849 the California Constitution stipulated that…

Listening to the dying poses special challenges. This paper proposes a contingency framework for describing and assessing various circumstances when listening to the dying. It identifies current approaches to listening, applies the contingency framework toward effectively listening to the dying, and proposes a new type of listening called…

This paper presents a case study of science teaching in an eighth grade school classroom in India. It comes out of a larger ethnographic study done in 2005 that looked at how science was taught and learned in a rural government run middle school in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India. Subscribing to a sociocultural perspective, the paper presents…

This article reports on attempts to initiate multi-point e-conferencing between English teacher education students on school placements, their host teachers and their university tutors. A sociocultural perspective is adopted in analysing the project, using the metaphor of a "professional knowledge landscape" [Clandinin, D. J., &…

Rhetoric must be defined not merely as a way of transmitting knowledge, but as a way of knowing. Knowing is a social act, requiring the mind to categorize sensory data intersubjectively, according to category systems that are socially generated and consensually validated. The dissociation between knower and known implied by the stance of…

Contemporary sport stylizes social modes and reflects conceptions of social roles. (JS)

This report explains the procedure for terminating parental rights and discusses related issues, including grounds for termination, consideration of the child's best interests, and procedural safeguards for the rights of parents. Emerging issues of interest to state legislators are examined. An analysis of involuntary termination of parental…

Discusses ways of addressing superiors, inferiors and peers in a war zone setting, Vietnam 1965-70. Charts are given of address forms for enlisted men and non-commissioned officers. Also discussed are addresses during action. Degrees of intimacy for various titles are explained. (SC)

Studies the general theory of language development and particularly the modernization of Tamil and the sociocultural factors responsible for the way development has taken place in this language. (SC)

This book contains speeches by Celeste Ulrich, the 1976-77 president of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. There are six speeches on the significance and meaning of physical education, six speeches on sociocultural implications of sport and physical education, and three speeches on the future of athletics and…

Projections about the interaction between business and society from 1971-75, made by a panel of 23 businessmen and students, are reported. Respondents each answered two questionnaires; the second questionnaire was based on results from the first, to make projections more precise. Respondents predicted that militant acts directed against business…

It can be argued that denimization, or the increasing popularity of denim clothing, is a movement away from conspicuous consumption by the rich and an aping of the rich by the middle class. (DS)

Presents a review of social trends having significance for women's gender roles, identifies potential implications of these trends for home economists, and makes observations about these implications for the personal lives of women who are home economists. (JOW)

This article describes French life in the French town of Cahors, and stresses the fact that while French life is definitely changing, it is important to search out the traditional aspects of French thinking and customs in order to understand the limits and meaning of the current modernization. (CLK)