Discusses narratives of the subaltern, their intersection with academic discourse, and their significance for minority scholars and educators. Draws on background related to U.S. invasion of Mexican territory, Proposition 187, and the author's familial and professional experiences as a Mexican American to demonstrate the importance of locating…

To achieve its expressed political goals of social empowerment and transformation, cultural studies must maintain some significant ethical and political commitments. The growing field of cultural studies is analyzed in terms of its definition within a specific ethical and social justice agenda and its links to the critical pedagogy tradition in…

Reviews research on how gender affects adolescent development. Discusses various conceptualizations of adolescence, the crisis of self-esteem for adolescent girls, the ways in which schools reinforce traditional gender roles, differences between boys' and girls' achievement patterns, and the intersections of gender with ethnicity and social class.…

Examines data on same-sex relations in girls' reform schools, noting the invisibility of gay and lesbian lives in most educational research. Discusses difficulties with terminology, institutional efforts to curb girls' relationships and sexual behavior, the girls' creation of an alternative family structure, love letters, and interracial…

Interlaken School (Indiana) was an elite boys' preparatory boarding school that combined Hall's definitive theory of adolescence and Spencer's theory of social evolution into both a philosophy and a pedagogy. Interlaken was portrayed as an isolated mythologized community that combined manual with mental development and believed that adolescent…

A weekly discussion group for high school students, held at a church before school, provided youth with a place to make connections across differences and to engage in stimulating debate with peers. Anecdotes illustrate how the youth group resisted unfair practices of adult authority while failing to openly recognize the power dynamics within the…

Observations in the infant room of a school-based daycare center for teen mothers revealed how "scripts" of White middle-class mothering were embraced or resisted by White teachers and (primarily) African-American student-mothers. Scripts of good mothering conflicted with similarly constructed scripts of the good student, emphasizing academic…

In-depth interviews with 10 working-class lesbians, aged 16-22, examined how they envisioned their lives, their experiences related to sexual orientation growing up and in school, meanings and consequences of being poor and working class, and additional difficulties for minority-group lesbians. Most interviewees had goals of partaking in the…

Analyzes the intellectual and institutional history of the foundations of education, tracing the early battles to establish foundations as a viable field of study in universities, including ongoing debates between those who would ground its influence solidly in the disciplines (particularly history of education) and those interested in more…

In discussing the intellectual and institutional history of the foundations of education, this paper examines the gendered splits in this history, analyzing ways that women have been historically excluded by the politics of academe from contributing to educational theory, being effectively positioned within "women's true profession." Three…

Contrasts Karl Popper's theory of social reform with a Marxist theory of reform. Concludes that a liberal approach to educational reform, as exemplified by A.S. Neill's self-governing school at Summerhill, is generally more satisfactory. (Author/DB)

Argues that the authoritarian structure of most schools impedes the socialization of children into competent young adults. Concludes that encouraging student participation in decision-making promotes social growth, improves academic performance, and develops citizen participation skills. (Auththor/DB)

Explores the relationships among social change, values, and education. Concludes that educators should inquire into and teach about values through classic works by authors such as Homer, Plato, Ibsen, and Mark Twain. (Author/DB)

Discusses attitudes of ethnic minorities regarding development and implementation of multicultural education programs. Minorities and disadvantaged groups should be included in the decision making process and educators and curriculum developers should be willing to learn from culturally different students and community members. (DB)

Discusses ways of increasing the interest level of graduate students in the historical foundations of education. Suggests that students be trained in historiography, experiential learning, and the philosophy of history. (DB)