Investigates the "ethics of criticism" as an attempt to disrupt the political practices of academic agonists based in a combative rhetoric which seeks to annihilate rather than to stimulate conversation. Proposes an adaptation of Nietzsche's psychology of self-overcoming and ethical pedagogy. (RS)

Looks at science essays by J. B. S. Haldane that attempt to show connections between Marxist political theory and Darwinian evolutionary theory, thus blurring the generic characteristics of political and scientific discourse. Explores the understanding of the cultural dimensions of scientific activities and the resulting redefinitions of concepts…

Responds to topics addressed in several essays in the same journal issue. Argues that the concern of these essays is not with method but with an engaged scholarship concerned about the whole rather than some aggrieved part and that they form a bridge between a modernist past and a postmodern condition. (SR)

Responds to topics addressed in several essays in the same journal issue, in particular the possibilities for communication research (and for academia in general) supplied by new ideological vocabularies. Focuses on voice, fragmentation, and the need for diversity. (SR)

Responds to topics addressed in several essays in the same journal issue. Offers thoughts about ideology as alternatives to some of the provocative arguments/positions in those essays. (SR)

Discusses Canadian government policy dealing with internal matters of party politics and international questions of human rights. Describes the political situation in Burma as an oppressive military regime. Urges the Canadian government to take a firmer stand to influence the international community against tolerating regimes that are guilty of…

Examines the role organizational politics play in student affairs. Sees background knowledge of politics as a concept critical to understanding idiosyncratic nature of any organization. Notes that both organizational conditions and individual behavior contribute to organization's political climate. Concludes that professionals who fail to…

Notes that invitational theory presents the concept of invitations as related to five factors: people, places, policies, programs, and processes. Proposes addition of a sixth "P," politics. Assumption is made that, without addressing the political aspects of schools and school systems, success of the invitational model with the other…

Muses briefly on topics related to workshops attended at the 1993 Conference on College Composition and Communication including stylistics, editing practice, communication versus art, and where technical writing belongs in academia. (SR)

Reviews the work of Joe L. Kincheloe, who extends postmodern political theory into the realm of cognitive theory when writing about children, intelligence, or workers. For Kincheloe, teaching, researching, and social justice are so intertwined as to be indistinguishable. (SLD)

Describes the meanings given to the word "ethnomathematics." Discusses three important publications on ethnomathematics, the new inspiration provided by the First International Conference on Ethnomathematics, and examines the critical mathematical direction represented by Powell and Frankenstein's collection. Contains 14 references. (ASK)

Explicates a conceptual framework for analyzing the politics of personnel evaluation in an educational context. Using several elements of the framework, discusses the politics of teacher evaluation in California in relation to the types of personnel evaluation decisions, the actors, their access to these decisions, sources and levels of power, and…

Argues that AIDS educators in the gay community in the United States have designed "generic" prevention programs that do not distinguish between those with and without HIV infection in an attempt to prevent the isolation of HIV-positive persons. Suggests that this type of undifferentiated education is a disservice to the community. Contains 36…

States that changes in the United States Senate evolve slowly and idiosyncratically. Discusses Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania's violation of the Senate's style of rhetorical decorum. Concludes that, while clinging to the customs of the past and slowness of pace that distinguish it from the House of Representatives, the Senate has not escaped the…

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of providing tenure in local school districts. Cites the case of the Patchogue-Medford School Board on Long Island, New York, which started denying tenure to qualified teachers because of one tenured teacher who is making a mockery of his position. (JOW)