Considers basic writing as a way of naming (and producing) a curriculum, an area of study, a type of writing, and writing practice. Discusses the history of the term "basic writing" and the role of the intellectual, the culture, and its institutions in its production. (SR)

Argues for reframing and reforging the relationship between text and context. Argues that the silences that modernity's tribute to text invites are grotesque, untenable, and fundamentally anti-intellectual. (SR)

Explores the way the doctrines of would-be academic humanists intersect with the political world of struggle and scarcity. Argues that the academy has become consumed by a debilitating doctrine: the textualizing of politics, where attitude is all, where everything is preliminary and little ever gets done. (SR)

Investigates interactions between political expertise and affect in shaping cognitive strategies people employ in forming reactions to newspaper stories. Finds that, in processing the news articles, political experts produced a greater number of thoughts and a larger share of arguments than did novices. Observes no predicted main effects of…

Successful leadership calls for a skillful interplay of power, politics, and ethics, qualities commonly thought to be incompatible. For the future of higher education, colleges and universities must learn how to recruit leaders with this combination of attributes and restructure the reward system to help them maintain their leadership. (MSE)

Discusses "language display," a language use strategy whereby members of one group lay claims to attributes associated with another, conveying messages of social, professional, ethnic identity. Examples from academia, politics, business, and advertising reveal language display functions as artifact of crossing linguistic boundaries…

Considers interrelationships among education, philosophy, and culture, focusing on how educational and philosophical ideals transcend individual cultures. Multiculturalism, as a value informing and governing educational endeavors, is rightly considered a transcultural (and sociopolitical) ideal. Transcultural ideals are actual and genuine. (25…

Compares the postmodernists' and transformationists' versions of interpretivism, in relation to epistemology, politics, and the ontology of the self. Sides with the transformationists and concludes that the differences between the two are overdrawn. (MMU)

Offers a reflection on the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. Notes how every special-interest group has used the tragedy to support its own point of view, and concludes that teachers have become bystanders in the education of America's children. (SR)

Examines information theory from the aspect of its conduit metaphor. An historical background shows how this metaphor was used to construct notions of language, information, information theory, and information science, and was used to extend the range of these notions across social and political space during the Cold War. (Author/LRW)

This reassessment of an earlier article examines the politics of modernity and emergence of "life politics," the dislocation of the learning subject, and the need to reconsider liberal adult education in light of the Learning Society. (SK)

Discusses the politics of English and suggests that English varieties of the inner city and the socially disenfranchised continue to be stigmatized by speakers of more esteemed varieties. (Author/VWL)

Draws on examples from the "Review of Research in Education" to show some ways in which reviews have specific politics both in how they construct their world and how they are received in determinate fields of power. (SLD)

Considers the meaning of "review" in the context of the historical development of the "Review of Educational Research" (RER). Historical and conceptual discussions about reviews and RER elaborate important considerations of the politics of the field of educational research. (SLD)

Argues that adolescent literacy has been pushed to the edges of public debate and policy at a time when the literacy development of early adolescents and teenagers is more critical than ever. Discusses why adolescent literacy is critical, how and why the author became an adolescent-literacy educator, and prospects for the future of adolescent…