Describes workshops sponsored by the American Vocational Association to identify state-level problems of vocational education and to outline legislative strategies for rectifying them. (SK)

White Americans and Native Americans have accepted and used the idea of the noble savage for many purposes. The noble savage imagery has fostered many misconceptions. Native Americans might reformulate their ethnicities to reckon with the present world and gain a more persuasive voice in politics. (AM)

Current challenges to the credibility of studying educational politics are briefly sketched; the logic form, Y=f(X), is reviewed by discussing three translations of "property space;" and speculations are made on the future of inquiry into the dynamics of educational politics. (RL)

Attempts to clarify Richard Weaver's ideas on rhetoric. Outlines the historical development of his classification of arguments and analyzes his axiology of argument and its political applications. (JMF)

Places the evolution of politics of education field in historical context and introduces a framework for understanding how three theoretical streams--micropolitics, political culture, and neoinstitutionalism--emerged as the behavioralist movement receded. Argues that the field has been advancing by means of integrative and aggregative drives that…

Compares how the Carter and Reagan administrations are portrayed in Canadian editorial cartoons. Finds that the Carter administration was treated more favorably than the Reagan administration. (RS)

Analyzes the paradox between the careful work of rigorous political analysis and philosophy and a desire for mystery and the experience of awe and wildness that demands putting aside careful reasoning and the sensing of nature in an altogether different way. (LZ)

Focuses on the uses of research and highlights a particular feminist perspective, that of the importance of returning the results of research to the communities from which they derive. Illustrates the position that values communication ought to continue beyond the formal research project through discussions of projects resulting in an oratorio and…

The exploration of the uses of research by G. Russell and J. Bohan illustrates applied feminist research in the use of research results to give something back to the community. Their projects also show that it is possible to be creative in the way in which researchers do give something back to the community. (SLD)

Examines the potential benefits and limitations of cyborg politics. Explores depictions of cyborgs in science fiction stories and examines the deaf culture's arguments in the cochlear-implant debate. Investigates the current viability of cyborg politics as a mode of advocacy for people with disabilities. (SC)

Identifies five themes that illustrate different aspects of the process of diffusing democratic deliberation into more widespread use: (1) appreciation; (2) addition; (3) apprehension; (4) application; and (5) adaptation. These themes give guidance concerning evaluation practice and the role of evaluation in society. (Author/SLD)

Surveyed social workers about their political activity. Found they are more active than the general public. Respondents engaged in a range of activities from voting to campaigning, but the most active were engaged in professional associations and were more likely to feel capable of affecting policy. This finding could provide social work educators…

Focuses on D.H. Lawrence and his being taken seriously as an original thinker. Notes that Lawrence is thought of primarily as a novelist. Suggests that readers should acknowledge Lawrence as an original thinker in an evolving history of the dialogical principle and in a continuing attempt to understand the dialogical and its political and ethical…

What is the relationship of writing to praxis, of historiography and critique to the human experiences and oppressions which are its subject matter? Is there a politics of context, as there is in practice: a duty of solidarity which requires that we bear responsibility for the reproduction of these narratives, for their use and reuse? What…

My only experience with politics took place several years ago, when I helped write some campaign literature for my son, a novice politician who was running for the state legislature against a popular incumbent. It wasn't much of a race; my son lost the election by a huge margin. But what impressed me was the civility of the campaign. In their…