Political changes in Scotland offer opportunities to integrate community development practice and environmental concerns. Community development practitioners who lack expertise in sustainable development could collaborate with environmental experts in the Community Learning Strategies initiative. (SK)

Discusses the characteristics of educational research in Poland and other countries in Central and Eastern Europe under communism and the implications of the postcommunist changes for the future of educational research. Educational researchers could play an important role in developing more informed educational policies. (SLD)

Suggests that the planning framework developed by Cervero and Wilson (CE 529 367) is useful in theorizing about educational program planning, but the analytical instruments used need to be refined. (SK)

Discusses the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of Values Clarification, and explores conservative religious and political criticisms. Proposes a reconceptualization of Values Clarification that addresses these concerns in an attempt to revitalize the topic of values conflict and clarification and to establish an empirically-based guidance for…

Analyzes creation and implementation of Hong Kong's Target Oriented Curriculum (TOC), an education reform effort, in light of the country's transition to Chinese rule in 1997. Examines TOC's origins, its nature, means of implementation, and its impact. Discusses tension between "policy intent" and "policy actions," and…

Literacy education in Thailand has shifted emphasis over time. Under authoritarian nationalism in the 1940s-1950s, popular democracy was a focus. Work-oriented literacy programs in the 1970s emphasized broader community development. With the neoliberal state's move toward globalization in the 1990s, calls for further democratization of educational…

Women experience exclusion from citizenship in significant ways. The New Right's education agenda promotes lifelong learning and citizenship within the context of the free market. But lifelong learning can promote a more inclusive view of citizenship by challenging social and cultural reproduction processes, taking a liberatory perspective, and…

Reports evidence that George W. Bush's financial and political success has been linked to the two richest university endowments in the United States--Harvard University and the University of Texas System, specifically the University of Texas Investment Management Company. Notes that officials of both universities' management companies denied any…

Proposes a strategy for reading Asian American texts written for audiences whose political and aesthetic expectations differed substantially from those of contemporary Western readers. Uses three stories by Sui Sin Far, written between 1908 and 1910, to illustrate the process and tell much about race relations early in the century. (SLD)

Argues that an essential aspect of Arendt's work resides in its form, noting that Arendt developed a crucial model for those who struggle with the gap between practice and the extreme simplicity of the systems of thought that attempt to capture it. The essay explores what Arendt called personas that she wore in her writings (storyteller, theorist,…

Political, economic, and social explanations of higher education reform, and the very definition of "reform," are the main departure points of this volume. The introduction uses the examples of Canada, Austria, Germany, and Japan to show that in all these countries, reform has meant reduced state funding and control and increased…

Academic departmentalization has limited the dimensionality and thus the richness of analysis in the social sciences. The author examines the case of a modern economics as an example. He reviews the ideas of Williamson (2000), who cites the limits of scope in the New Institutional Economics; Buchanan, who lays bare the ethical foundations of…

Education and morality have been essential codes of the Cuban ideological apparatus since the victory of the Revolution in 1959. Rooted deep in the political traditions that created that ideology, drove the rebellion and shaped the Revolution, but reinforced by the following radicalisation and mobilisations, these interrelated codes also informed…

The Nordic model of education is defined in this article as an attempt to construct a national education system on the foundation of specific local values and practices, but at the same time subject to international influences. According to the author, equity, participation, and welfare are the major goals and the publicly funded comprehensive…

In this article, we examine the invocation of Socrates as the exemplar for Earl Shorris' Clemente Course in the Humanities program. Our aim is to temper Shorris' claim that the Socratic method and the humanities are tools for political liberation. Though they may have this consequence, they are not exhausted by this consequence. Rather, this…