The author presents a biography of Antonio Gramsci and discusses the influence of Karl Marx on Gramsci's key ideas concerning mode of production, superstructure, hegemony, consciousness, praxis, and intellectuals. Gramsci's emphasis on adult education for socialism is discussed. (CH)

This article continues a dialogue about the nature of environmental education research by establishing the behaviorist nature of the dominant approach to environmental education research and exploring implications for environmentalism of one aspect of the politics of methods of this dominant behaviorist approach--the tendency to individualize the…

Presents extracts from a record of the general strike in 1917 of the Union General de Trabajadores de Espana (UGT), the General Workers' Union of Spain. (SK)

Notes that little has appeared in the literature on the relations of the postmodern intervention to the work of rhetoric past and present. Argues that the advent of the postmodern challenges the historiographic method of most histories of rhetoric. Argues that the historian of rhetoric is engaged in cultural politics that cannot be avoided. (RS)

Discusses the differences between male and female utopian (and dystopian) writers. Notes that some male utopian and dystopian writers emphasize science and product, stressing social and political theories of class control and struggle, whereas some female utopian writers stress conservation, community, and collective action. (RS)

Asserts that teaching conceived of as translation of complex material into plain language is actually refusal to teach. Using Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, describes teaching framed by clarity is suspect and exclusionary. States that no text speaks for itself, without context. (Author/SK)

Provides an overview of the process of evaluating superintendents. explores the politics surrounding the superintendent evaluation process, and provides strategies/processes for improvement. (Author/SLD)

Speculates about the relationship between two fundamental social changes occurring in Europe: the development of a mass higher education system and the slow decay of the old states that were inherited from the 19th century, eroded from below by various movements for national and regional autonomy, and eroded from above by the growing power and…

Adult educators (n=226) recalled incidents of power and influence behaviors in designing and planning programs. Cluster analysis identified four behaviors: shotgun, tactician, ingratiator, and bystander. These power and influence styles related to organizational contexts. Planners' personal characteristics did not affect choice of style. (SK)

Describes how the search for a president of the University of Florida was waylaid by politics and missteps. One of the problems discussed is that large selection committees often frighten away candidates. (EV)

Links perspectives on professionalism (trait, functionalist, power, and postmodern) with professional struggles for legitimacy under increasing public scrutiny. States that lifelong learning cannot resolve the crisis but can contribute to recognition of social change, the challenge of working with diversity, and the need for constant renewal of…

Examines the history of the filibuster, particularly the ways in which the discourse surrounding attempts to eliminate the filibuster exemplify certain fundamental contradictions in American political mythology. Concludes that popular democracy and the American form of republican government are as contradictory as they are collaborative. Sees the…

Discusses the importance of basketball to Indiana residents, examining racial and political meanings and implications of high school basketball and focusing on the situation at Crispus Attucks High School during the early- to mid-20th century (which had a significant African American population), noting how the school's success in basketball…

Analyzes President Clinton's actions on higher education during his eight years in office. Notes progress on issues such as funding for middle-class students, biomedical research, and technology. Points out possible missed opportunities, including issues surrounding affirmative action. Concludes that Clinton helped make higher education a…

Offers a response to an article on scholarship and linguistic rights. The focus of the response is on strengthening the foundations underpinning a field that is of increasing interest not only to sociolinguistics, but also to lawyers, educationalists, economists, anthropologists, policymakers, and others. (Author/VWL)