An interview with Paulo Freire describes his radical educational policy developed in Brazil in the early 1960s. He introduced curriculum reform, new models of school management, and a movement for participatory literacy training. (JOW)

Describes the many and varied literacy projects in which the author and his family are involved. Discusses how, reaching far beyond print media, they xperiment with other forms of literacy that enrich each of them personally, socially, and politically. (RS)

An analysis shows that public universities in states with systems that enhance political control and universities whose trustees are selected by nonacademic stakeholders charge significantly lower prices than universities located in state with decentralized systems and those in which trustees are selected by academic stakeholders. (Author/SLD)

Critiques the technological view of literacy and the traditional assumptions of the consequences and value of literacy. Suggests that these positions view literacy as unitary and inherently beneficial. Argues that reading and writing should be seen as complex social forms intertwined with other elements of human activity. (38 citations) (BCY)

Investigated the relationship between citizenship orientations and service production. Comparison of respondents at three community centers, each tied to a distinct model of service production, found that co-production related more strongly with political and social citizenship than did contract and direct provision models. Civil citizenship…

Uses a political fragmentation index to calculate how political power affects educational spending in Virginia. Compares different political voices relative to each other, examines the role of power distribution, and considers political fragmentation across several dimensions. Along with traditional demand variables, interest group pressures…

Examines the impact of Japanese nationalistic thought on the administrative systems and structures of colonial and modern higher education in Korea and analyzes Japanese educational policy in Korea in the colonial period (1910-1945). Identifies beneficial and negative impacts of the Japanese colonial education system. (SLD)

Presents a theoretical analysis of constructivism in practice by building a framework of dilemmas that explicates the conceptual, pedagogical, cultural, and political places of the constructivist teaching experience. The framework serves as a heuristic for teachers, allowing them to interrogate their own beliefs, question institutional routines,…

Examines the fungibility of lottery revenues for the support of public education using data from all 50 states. Finds that increases in lottery revenues are fungible, thus negatively impacting support for public education in all states regardless of wealth, population, debt, or tax burden. (Contains 15 references.) (PKP)

Multicultural scholarship was critiqued by proponents at a meeting of the American Studies Association for a "politics of style" substituting for analysis of society; a "particularism" that has divided researchers into separate camps; and a "political correctness" that has avoided self-criticism. One issue raised was that multiculturalism further…

Discusses the recent New Right educational "reforms" in New Zealand within the context of the welfare state crisis. Details the development of conservative privatization and deregulation policies and the individualistic economic and social principles dominating the educational restructuring movement. Such trends impoverish the notion of…

Specific campus projects that Congress has directed federal agencies to support this year at over 120 colleges and universities are listed. The agencies neither requested support nor sponsored merit-based competitions for the awards. In some cases, the institutions have a history of receiving special federal treatment. (MSE)

Scholars contend that the college curriculum is increasingly politicized and trivialized in the name of diversity. Students are taught that Western culture is tainted by racism, sexism, and oppression, and the belief that liberal education can transcend differences and provide help in leading a moral life is being lost. (MSE)

Examines teachers' perceptions of school politics in a southeastern state. Teachers cited numerous examples of principal favoritism related to hiring, promotion, appointments, termination, evaluation, and other practices and attributed principals' need for protection and control to several factors. Favoritism negatively affects teachers, often…

Reviews the major influences that have contributed to the development of radical work theory and practice in the United Kingdom. Looks at the changing political context within which community workers have operated and at their relationship to the state. (JOW)