Offers a review of Latin American scholarly research on communication processes from the 1940s to the early 1990s. Notes international interest in this research and the new challenges faced by it. (SR)

Discusses the "crisis in representation" experienced in the humanities since the 1960s. Considers the relationship of academic knowledge to political power in terms of an ongoing struggle for representation. Recognizes higher education as a leading agent in redistributing access to representation in the public sphere. (HB)

Discusses Joan Del Fattore's book, "What Johnny Shouldn't Read: Textbook Censorship in America," and the complexity of problems posed by current censorship efforts. (SR)

Asserts that professional writing belongs on equal footing with other courses in the college English curriculum. Proposes reforms for the integration of professional writing into the English curriculum. Focuses on particular issues that must be confronted and gives practical steps to take in achieving such reforms. (HB)

Discusses the international negotiations and cooperation involved in cross-national studies of academic achievement sponsored by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. Criticizes a previous article for its views of which research is and is not policy relevant; the relationship between between-country and…

Discusses how many recent treatments of the hidden curriculum have overlooked historical antecedents of the early progressive curriculum literature. Shows how insights derived from John Dewey and others portray the hidden curriculum more positively than some of the ideologically laden interpretations in vogue today. The hidden curriculum can…

Compares historiography and its relationship to government in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) before and after German reunification. Acknowledges bias in some West German views of history, and calls for dialog among historical researchers from all viewpoints. (CFR)

Four conditions are necessary for a union and school district to move toward professional unionism: understanding change's inevitability, keeping politics at bay, moving beyond anger, and believing in teacher professionalism. Professional unionism cannot grow in permanently contested terrain or amid standardized, centralized work rules. Many…

Emphasis on the positive--the ability to read and appreciate books in another language--changes the entire tone of discussion about bilingualism and multiculturalism. Bilingualism advocates are no longer seen as aggrieved parties, as people demanding special programs in sufficient measure. Best path is maintaining a child's first language divorced…

The rationally based model of action learning limits learning and change. Adding a psychological component (emotional experiences that promote or discourage learning) and a political component (effects of institutional and personal power relations on learning) broadens understanding of individual and organizational development. (SK)

Surveys the interrelationship between language and politics. Touches on the context of political discourse, or political culture and ideology in new and old democracies and the reemerging manifestations of totalitarianism, censorship, and linguistic imperialism; then examines selected linguistic features of political discourse and their…

Describes how the development of the National Science Education Standards occurred within a political context and through a process with political aspects and political intents. Contains 25 references. (DDR)

Reveals and calls into question Hirsch's core assumptions, locating them within neoconservatism. Assumptions include the following: progressivist monopoly in schools; curriculum incoherence; education as a cognitive-technical process; deficits in children's cultural background; and the existence of a common culture. (SK)

Examines various narratives about literacy, and how they influence the thinking of people in composition studies. Uses J. Lyotard's notions of the grand narratives of modernism and the little narratives of postmodernism to examine: conflicted politics of composition studies; the relationship of theory and ideology; ethical questions of research;…

Explores relationships between the civic development of high school students and various factors, such as characteristics of the student and the environment. Features five dimensions of civic development: (1) political knowledge; (2) attention to politics; (3) political participation skills; (4) political efficacy; and (5) tolerance of diversity.…