Politics, culture, and curriculum research all influence the ways students are taught to write. (DD)

Describes a research paper assignment on "The Language of Politics" which involved students in analyzing the language of the 1976 presidential debates. (DD)

Analysis of the 1976 Carter-Ford debates shows that Carter initiated more topics, spent more time discussing self-initiated topics, and spent slightly more time discussing image-related topics than did Ford. (GW)

Tells how Duff Green obtained editorial and financial control of the "United States' Telegraph"--the primary organ for promoting the 1828 election campaign of Andrew Jackson--and how he expanded the role of partisan journalism. (GW)

Participants of the second semiannual meeting of the Arizona Mexican American Political Conference, held in Tucson on September 24, 1977, discussed the Mexican American influence and involvement in local, state, and national politics. (NQ)

Behind differences in style of North and Latin American social scientists lie profound divergences of conceptions of social science and of typical levels of analysis. Important consequences of these differences follow for styles of teaching, research, or community involvement. This paper explores these cleavages and exemplifies how one might teach…

To demand trustees take a moral position on a political issue asserts the primacy of political over other social and cultural values and denies the right of people of diverse views to pursue a non-political institution's interests cooperatively. (MSE)

Details Senator Proxmire's persistence, over 19 years, to achieve congressional ratification of the United Nations Genocide Convention. Explains his views on its strengths and weaknesses and his conviction that the topic of genocide should be included in the secondary curriculum. Stresses his support for the convention and assesses current…

The author discusses the relationships between the emerging curriculum managers and the forces that constitute the political power context of British further education. Organizational methods of curriculum control are identified with their limitations in leading to the implementation of innovations because of power dissipation and inadequate…

Argues that political science has much to add to the emerging literature on science, technology, and society (STS). Reviews existing literature, notes deficiencies, and concludes with a list of five STS topics which could be addressed by political science. (JDH)

Argues that terrorists are so restrained by situation and purpose that their acts form a distinct rhetorical genre. Suggests that their failure to persuade or conquer makes this impotent for longterm objectives. (MS)

In this article, the assumptions behind the clerical-professional understanding of adult education for ministry are contrasted with the assumptions that are giving rise to the communal-contextual model. Also, the author documents some educational consequences of the communal-contextual model for adult education for ministry. (CT)

Four aspects of sociopolitical language are: (1) keywords are defined by a movement; (2) a movement, realized in its language, must be analyzed as having both surface and hidden meanings; (3) the propagandistic function of sociopolitical language forces "value" on the keyword; and (4) a movement creates its linguistic field. (MSE)

The economic reasoning that individuals use in making public choices regarding politics, society, and the economy is examined in these essays. All of the essays set the agenda for addressing the perplexing problems of understanding individual behavior in relation to the behavior of others. (RM)

Concludes that the news media report less favorably on deviant political groups but not less prominently. Suggests the findings support the theory that the media act as agents for social control. (FL)