Presents an interview with Noam Chomsky. Discusses his positions on social construction, paradigm shifts, feminist scholarship, teaching, ideology, propaganda, and indoctrination. (RS)

The "quiet crisis" in federal service is due to absence of dominant political condition or consensus regarding model on which public administration should be based. Extensive changes will bring about fundamental alterations in federal service even in absence of agreement on whether and how to rebuild. The public administration community can play a…

The author presents a primer on public policy in Canada in order to stimulate and facilitate a home economics initiative to influence public policy formation, implementation, and evaluation. (Author/CH)

Presents a conversation with five theater practitioners and artists about advocacy for theater. (SR)

Critically examines community development assumptions through historical analysis and mapping of political discourse. Using the methods of Foucault, Said, and Gramsci, demonstrates how participatory research, concerned with releasing people's knowledge through transformation, can expose and resist dominant discourses. (SK)

Describes the overcrowding in ALA's current Washington offices and discusses the impending move to new quarters to fulfill ALA's growing responsibilities. Current federal budgetary and political issues of concern to ALA are outlined and a sidebar by Patricia Glass Schuman presents ALA's legislative agenda. (JKP)

Presents seven short position papers and four responses (first aired at a conference entitled "A Critique of the Things That Go without Saying in Composition Studies"), which identify and critique unstated assumptions in composition studies that are so widely accepted they are, in effect, invisible. (SR)

Describes how the Department of Communication at the University of Arizona faced elimination and survived by using a wide range of response options and by providing objective data in response to "faulty logic and spurious analysis." (SR)

Examines the word "reason" as it is used in political discourse. Argues that "reason"'s plasticity and flexibility help it to stimulate and evoke variable mental images and responses in different settings and situations. Notes that the example of reason of state shows "reason"'s rhetorical power and privilege, its…

A controversial best-selling Chinese novel of the mid-1980s is discussed in terms of the main character's antiheroic qualities, the narrator's ambivalent voice, and the interplay between sexual impotence and cultural regression. (18 references) (LB)

Notes how conservatives turn academic recognition of the inescapability of political motives against academia while concealing their own political interests. Blames some of this misperception on the overuse of the "political." Advocates sometimes substituting the term "ethics" or "values." (SR)

Develops a framework for analyzing the politics of school organizations, affirming a Weberian perspective as most appropriate. Develops "logic of action" (the implicit relationship between means and goals) as the focal point of organizational politics. Underlines the importance of analyzing interest groups and their strategies. Political…

Offers a brief overview of illiteracy in Europe. Argues that the fact that there is no common European strategy, let alone a policy to combat illiteracy, is the biggest problem with literacy in Europe. (SR)

Asks why the United States is training artists that it does not intend to employ, and why (when it seems that arts education is good for everyone) are all the resources concentrated only on "talented" children. (PRA)

Discusses the role of environmental protection in the 1992 presidential election. Includes an analysis of the positions taken by George Bush and Dan Quayle, Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Presents George Bush's "environmental" record during his tenure as President of the United States as well as those of Quayle, Gore, and Clinton. (MCO)