Calls for rekindled interest in the comparative study of significant issues in religion as they relate to education in various parts of the world. Outlines the questions examined in this issues' articles, and lists areas of religion-education linkage in which research is needed. Presents four principles of communication that promote genuine…

Noting that, as a developing socialist society, China requires an educational system which develops in the individual both political loyalty and technical skill, the author surveys China's efforts, from 1949 to the present, to implement these two potentially conflicting educational objectives. (SJL)

During the 1950s-60s, a "people as clay" metaphor undergirded the most widely accepted English-language, predominantly North American writings on education for Third World development. Writings based on "people as growing plants" challenged the earlier writings from the late 1960s-late 1970s. Late 1970s developments have helped to blunt this…

The author suggests an agenda for comparative education research based on the metropolitan-hinterland paradigm, which emphasizes the economic and cultural exploitation of the Third World by rich nations. This is a revised text of the presidential address delivered at the 23rd Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society. (SJL)

A discussion of the legal and other steps taken in India from about 1950 to approximately 1970 for implementing educational discrimination in favor of certain weaker sections of the people," and an examination of the various problems which have arisen in the wake of this governmental policy of positive discrimination. (Author/RY)