Social services in China are provided primarily by local street offices and residents' committees, both serving as mechanisms for social and political control. Improvements in community development are dependent on professional training and separation from political education and mobilization. (SK)

In the past two decades, bilingual education has become an educational movement and a field of academic inquiry worldwide. An overview focuses on the main trends that have evolved out of the international debate surrounding bilingual education. (82 references) (GLR)

Discusses Hannah Arendt's belief that Nazi Adolf Eichmann's crimes stem from his failure to think. States that educators in a democracy must teach students to think about political and social issues. Covers methods of teaching thinking (as differentiated from problem solving) and dangers of a political realm without thinking citizens. (CH)

Discusses how the German Nazi party arranged for the political socialization of German children through public education in the 1930s. Topics include philosophy of the Nazi party, political socialization of teachers, and teaching materials for Nazi education. Implications for education's role in politics are explored. (CH)

Describes the ideological and political education structure in middle schools in Beijing, China. Suggestions are made on ways to improve education for middle-school students. (GG)

Discusses how President Clinton's view of citizenship is flawed, leading to his attempt to recast big-government programs, such as AmeriCorps, as instruments of individual and community empowerment. The debate over school lunch funding is offered as an example of Clinton's refusal to turn over power, responsibility, and resources to local control.…

Four case studies of British adolescents describe their application of social theories to political, social, and personal issues. The studies imply that political reasoning does not develop separately from other domains. Discussion of the concept of lay social theory precedes the case studies. (BC)

Finds that the rate of reproduction of parents' political outlook in their adolescent children does not vary significantly in Israel among four types of family communication patterns but that family communication patterns relate to political participation and political ideologies, with the pluralist family most likely to induce political…

Analysis of 238 variables pertaining to 170 polities indicated that linguistic heterogeneity could not independently predict either gross national product or civil strife, with the former primarily accounted for by modernization and industrialization variables, and the latter by long- and short-term deprivation and inadequate coercive power. (14…

Describes a ten-day curricular unit with three goals: motivating students to vote, helping students to understand the importance of political parties, and having students identify a variety of effective means for influencing the political process. Incorporates historical and experiential elements key to motivating students to get involved. (DSK)

Before and after the Socialist October Revolution of 1917, John Dewey had a significant impact on the development of the Russian school system. The ultimate rejection of Dewey's pedagogy toward the end of the 20s was not due to educational but to political and ideological reasons. (AUTH/PGS)

In German-speaking countries, John Dewey was considered a school reformer, an advocate of the project method and the propagator of a cognitivistic psychology of learning. His ideas on socio-political reform were ignored, partly intentionally, partly due to a lack of familiarity with them. Discusses this view of Dewey on the basis of internal…

Compared the characteristics of Israeli high school teachers who influenced students' political attitudes with the characteristics of non-influential teachers. Student surveys indicated that influential teachers differed from non-influential teachers in regard to four types of characteristics (sociodemographic, professional, ideological, and…

In this article, we argue that critical and revolutionary educational praxis is increasingly shaped by and through ecological politics and imaginaries. Indeed, given the pervasiveness of environmental crisis in our everyday lives and vocabularies, we argue that critical educators can no longer ignore questions of ecojustice. In keeping with a…

This essay investigates the challenge for schools in Romania to educate their students in the civic virtues. Educators have to deal not only with the legacy of Soviet ideologies, but also with the avalanche of messages concerning citizenship that are embedded in the market-driven media that are increasingly being watched by Romanian students.…