This volume contributes to the understanding of higher education's catalytic role in shaping the microcomputer revolution. Academic computing is viewed here as a social and cultural phenomenon. An in-depth collection of mainly ethnographic studies of the academic computing revolution--its consequences, meanings, and significance--is presented. The…

This paper reports from a research project at Oxford in the UK that focused (a) on university mathematics teachers' conceptualizations of first-year undergraduate teaching related to observation of their teaching; and (b) on issues relating the conceptualizations to mathematics as a discipline. This research builds on a qualitative study of…

Utilizing 1990 and 1996 National Assessment of Educational Progress data regarding mathematics achievement, students' backgrounds, and mathematics teacher practices, this paper examines race and SES (socioeconomic status) related disparities in student performance, beliefs about mathematics, and classroom experiences. Although overall mathematics…

The essays in this book draw from current debates concerning schooling and the need for liberatory education; the social construction of science and identity; and systems of race, class, and gender oppression and domination. These works aim to pose such questions as: (1) How can we shape practice and curriculum to address the needs of diverse…

This paper evaluates the usefulness of a sociocultural approach for analyzing teachers' responses to the professional learning demands of standards-based reform policies. A policy-oriented case study of the practice of six elementary teachers who worked in two high-poverty schools in a demographically changing district in the state of Washington…

This paper examines the pedagogical implications of ascribing to sociocultural theory in the classroom, reviewing commonplace terms and concepts that may have lost their true meaning and intent through interpretation and misuse. The paper returns to the initial focus of sociocultural theory, cognition and the mind. Through transcripts of a…

The five annotated bibliographies, developed by students as a requirement for a graduate-level course in cross-cultural communication, include: "Teaching Cross-Cultural Capability in the ESL/EFL Classroom" (Ellen Grote); "To Have and To Hold: Marriage Connections Across Cultures" (Elizabeth Graber); "Rhetoric and Ideology in Compositions: L1 and…

Research supported by the Center for the Study of Social Organizaion of Schools, Johns Hopkins University, under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (DS)

Research supported by the Cooperative Research Program, U.S. Office of Education. (DS)

Continued population growth can only lead to world problems if decisions regarding balance, production of food, handling of natural resources, and educational aims are not made immediately. (JB)

A selective review of attempts to investigate urban systems that includes a 66-item bibliography. (MLF)

Expresses the view that more and more black students become alienated and will transform as a class into a revolutionary nationalist intelligentsia for the movement toward independent nationhood. (DM)

The entire journal contains summaries of topics and papers delivered at the Annual Meeting of American Orthopsychiatry (48th, March 21-24, 1971, Washington, D.C.). Author, title, and session indexes are provided. (RD)