Walden, Charles (1972). Louisville School System Retreats to Segregation. A Report on Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky, 1956-1971. This is a report on the failure of the desegregation plan adopted by the Louisville Board of Education in 1956 but never modified to meet changing conditions. The analysis, by staff members of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, is based on statistical data supplied by the Board of Education for the years 1955 through 1971. Findings include the following. Racial isolation of students in Louisville public schools reached a ten-year high in 1971-72 school year, and the racial isolation of elementary school students is higher than at any time since total segregation was abolished in 1956. Schools with the greatest concentrations of white students are losing some of the few black teachers that were added to their faculties between 1968 and 1970. The number of black teachers south of Eastern and Algonquin parkways dropped from 8.6 percent in 1970 to 7.5 percent in 1971, while the overall percentage of black teachers increased to 31 percent. Out of all white high school students,… [PDF]

Medina, Adelita M. (1991). Latino Initiatives: Progress and Challenges. A Report by the Administration of Mayor David N. Dinkins. This annual report for 1990 details initiatives by a select group of New York City (New York) agencies on matters of particular concern to Latinos. New York City's mayor, David Dinkins, originally presented these initiatives in August of 1990 to a meeting of Latino leaders representing diverse agencies and community organization. Highlights of those initiatives include the following: (1) appointment of Latino commissioners and directors of city agencies; (2) implementation of economic development policies; (3) opening of two testing, assessment, and placement centers; (4) efforts to increase Latino representation in city government particularly fire and police departments; (5) development of an advertising campaign to counteract Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; (6) an effort to link drug treatment with foster care prevention; (7) a comprehensive criminal justice plan; (8) several capital projects to benefit Latino neighborhoods; (9) funds for school-based community centers; and…

(1997). Improving Educational Opportunities for Low-Income Children. Hearing on Examining Proposals to Improve Educational Opportunities for Low-Income Children, Including Provisions of S. 847, to Provide Scholarship Assistance for District of Columbia Elementary and Secondary School Students, Hearing of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session. The Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources met to hear two panels of witnesses discuss improving educational opportunities for low-income children, including provisions of Senate 847, to provide scholarship assistance for District of Columbia elementary and secondary school students. Opening remarks by Senators Coats, Lieberman, Reed, and Hutchinson set the stage for the discussion of educational improvement for low-income children and a discussion of school choice for urban students. The first panel of four witnesses included Howard Fuller (Institute for the Transformation of Learning, Marquette University), Pam Ballard (mother of urban students), Alieze Stallworth (teacher in the District of Columbia schools and parent), and Barbara S. Lewis (representative of a group supporting school choice and urban parent). With the exception of Ms. Stallworth, these panelists supported various forms of choice for urban schools. Ms. Stallworth argued that the issue was one of excellence… [PDF]

Tractenberg, Paul L. (1971). Equal Employment Opportunities and the New York City Public Schools: An Analysis and Recommendations Based on Public Hearings Held January 25-29, 1971. This is a report of the analysis and recommendations of the Commission on Human Rights in the City of New York, based upon public hearings held January 25-29, 1971. The Commission's investigation of the current personnel practices of the New York City school system yields one inescapable conclusion–that change is urgently demanded. The essential issue raised by the hearings was whether the system that now prevails can be further modified to meet the divergent needs of all the individual schools and districts in the city, or whether more drastic change is required. A few of the many who testified, principally the representatives of the Board of Examiners, consider the current system fundamentally sound. The view of the vast proponderance of witnesses, however, was that the current selection system has certain fundamental flaws which cannot be completely corrected except by wholesale reform. At the heart of the problem, as they see it, is a complex and rigid examination process… [PDF]

Himes, James R. (1993). The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Three Essays on the Challenge of Implementation. Innocenti Essays, No. 5. A growing international consensus exists that societies have an obligation to promote and protect children's rights to survival, protection, participation, and development. These three essays consider UNICEF's role in implementing the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. "The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: More Than a New Utopia?" discusses obstacles to the effective implementation of the Convention, urging UNICEF and other organizations to take up the challenge of meeting the goals of the Convention. Three ways the Convention can be used to good effect are discussed, and four practical steps from the field of development or social planning for implementation of the Convention are identified. "Reflections on Indicators Concerning the Rights of the Child" discusses indicators that measure human rights performance relating to children in developing countries. Two initiatives of UNICEF's International Child Development Centre in…

Reeb, Richard H., Jr. (1983). Notes on a Return to the Genuine Study of the Issues of Political Life or: Steps Toward Overcoming Instructor Apathy and the Malaise of the Listless Colleges. An emphasis in college level social sciences on the principles of the Declaration of Independence can provide a foundation for interdisciplinary study as well as illuminate political issues, institutions, and ends. For example, in terms of the Declaration, political science is the study of the ends of political life (security of human rights) and the means to attain them. Economics is subordinate to the higher art of politics, providing a necessary, but not sufficient condition for human happiness. History is perceived as the struggle of people against unnatural regimes which stifled their rights and the attempts to remedy these conditions. The Declaration humanized psychology by accounting for basic drives not as subhuman forces, but as the impetus of the human being toward happiness. In addition, political issues can be analyzed in terms of the Declaration. The separation of powers, development of political parties, functions of the news media, foreign policy, and national defense…

Ariana, Yudi; Gunawati, Dewi; Hartanto, Rima Vien Permata; Kurniawan, Itok Dwi; Rejekiningsih, Triana; Suryono, Hassan; Triyanto (2023). Teachers' Perspectives Concerning Students with Disabilities in Indonesian Inclusive Schools. Asia Pacific Education Review, v24 n3 p291-301 Sep. Everyone, including students with impairments, has the right to access education. Many of these students, however, lack access to education. In this study, we discuss teachers' perspectives concerning students with disabilities in Indonesian inclusive schools. We gathered and obtained qualitative data through observation and in-depth interviews. 32 teachers who teach students with disabilities in inclusive schools participated. Data were analyzed by the Interactive Model of Analysis that comprises four steps: data collection, data display, data reduction, and conclusions. The findings revealed that the teachers' perspectives on inclusive education could be divided into four categories: equality and access, competency and training, caring and empathy, and facilities and human resources. Many obstacles remain in the way of implementing inclusive schools, including a shortage of human resources, limited facilities, and public acceptance of children with disabilities. Teachers in… [Direct]

Hakim, Laurel, Ed. (1992). Conflict Resolution in the Schools. 1993 Edition. This manual describes approaches to initiating conflict resolution programs for kindergarten through 12th grade, details working models, and provides extensive resource information. The guide contains 13 sections. Section 1 discusses why it is important to have a conflict resolution program in the schools. Section 2 presents an overview of conflict resolution programs. Section 3 contains \School Discipline, Corporal Punishment and Alternative Strategies,\ an excerpt from \The Good Common School: Creating a Vision that Works for All Children,\ a book published by the National Coalition of Advocates for Students. Section 4 presents \We Can Work It Out,\ an article from Teacher Magazine (Williams, 1991). Section 5 presents \Peer Pressure Is Used to Mediate Disputes at School,\ an article which appeared in the New York Times (Dullea, 1987). Section 6, Project PACT: Peers Addressing Conflict Together, presents materials for use in setting up conflict resolution programs in schools…. [PDF]

Kharem, Haroon; Soto, Lourdes Diaz (2006). A Post-Monolingual Education. International Journal of Educational Policy, Research, and Practice: Reconceptualizing Childhood Studies, v7 n1 p21-34. In this article, the authors draw attention to the need for ethnolinguistic democracy at a time when linguistic and cultural issues are significantly impacting how schools, educators, students, and curriculum are perceived. The authors delineate the manifold acts of imperialism associated with the colonizing of young minds and bodies as culture and history are erased and then replaced with the dominant Western ideas of what universal knowledge should be. The drive to Americanize serves a narrow, specific purpose, allowing the colonizer to commit linguistic terrorism while forcing the colonized to masquerade in order to \make it\ in American society. This type of domination of culture and language continues to perpetuate a social order where people of color are pushed further into the margins. In a post 9/11 U.S., the argument for a mono-lingual/mono-cultural education is touted as necessary for economic success as well as unification (and safety). This power struggle has nothing to… [PDF] [Direct]

(2000). Indigenous Affairs = Asuntos Indigenas, 2000. Indigenous Affairs, n1-4. This document contains the four English-language issues of Indigenous Affairs published in 2000 and four corresponding issues in Spanish. The Spanish issues contain all or some of the articles contained in the English issues plus additional articles on Latin America. These periodicals provide a resource on the history, current conditions, and struggles for self-determination and human rights of indigenous peoples around the world. The four theme issues are concerned with the Pacific (Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Venezuela, and the Pacific in the Spanish edition); hunters and gatherers; indigenous women; and Indochina. Articles specifically concerned with American Indians in Latin America discuss indigenous land rights in Bolivia; indigenous political activism in Ecuador; community-based Mayan culture and identity, nonformal education and intergenerational transmission of culture, and indigenous rights in Guatemala; indigenous rights in the new Venezuelan constitution; indigenous…

Liftin, Elaine (1971). Social Studies: Our Federal Government. Designed as a pre-requisite for other quinmester courses in the politcal studies cluster, this course of study for grades seven through nine, aims at providing the student with basic knowledge about Democracy, and an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of each citizen to make a Democracy work. Course goals are for the student to: 1) develop generalizations about the reasons for government; 2) analyze the Democratic principles and American heritage on which this government is based; 3) identify the civil and human rights accorded each citizen of the United States; 4) illustrate how constitutional rights imply responsibilities commensurate with those rights; 5) assess how our government has carried out its constitutional charges; 6) analyze the roles of the three branches of government; 7) specify the methods by which the constitution is kept a living document; 8) differentiate among the methods by which individuals can influence the government; 9) evaluate the importance… [PDF]

Erni, Christian, Comp.; Parellada, Alejandro, Comp. (2000). The Indigenous World, 1999-2000 = El Mundo Indigena, 1999-2000. This annual publication (published separately in English and Spanish) examines political, social, environmental, and educational issues concerning indigenous peoples around the world during 1999-2000. Part 1 highlights news events and ongoing situations in specific countries in nine world regions: the Arctic, North America, Mexico and Central America, South America, the Pacific and Australia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Africa. Articles of educational interest on the Arctic and the Americas discuss language use (Greenlandic versus Danish) in Greenland; native language instruction for the Sami in Russia; "Indian control of Indian education" and technology use in Indian schools in the United States and Canada; financial support for U.S. tribal colleges; controversy over university research into indigenous ethnobotanical knowledge in Chiapas, Mexico; and assimilationist efforts to decrease the number of indigenous teachers and health workers in Peru. Other…

Duvan Emine; G√∂k Selma; G√ºmr√ºk Burcu; Ko√ßan Baran Hatice; Partal Sercan; Tulunay M√ºge (2024). Equal Opportunity in Education. Educational Research and Reviews, v19 n12 p168-171. The concept of equality is a concept shaped as a result of economic, legal, political, and sociological debates throughout human history. The concept of equality in the modern age; Its content has been enriched with principles such as equality of opportunity, political, racial, social and economic equality, and equality between men and women, and has become a superior value. Many researchers define equality as "a moral and social ideal, the situation in which people have the same position and value as each other in terms of having the same human nature." In other words, equality is the principle that states that "people are equal to each other and therefore no discrimination should be made between people". For this reason, this research aims to provide a general perspective to researchers by compiling studies on equality of opportunity in education. As a result, the concept of equality is generally defined as opportunity which means It is a widely accepted… [PDF]

Covell, Katherine; Howe, R. Brian; McNeil, Justin K. (2010). Implementing Children's Human Rights Education in Schools. Improving Schools, v13 n2 p117-132 Jul. Evaluations of a children's rights education initiative in schools in Hampshire, England–consistent with previous research findings–demonstrate the effectiveness of a framework of rights for school policy, practice, and teaching, for promoting rights-respecting attitudes and behaviors among children, and for improving the school ethos. The value of rights-consistent schooling is seen not only in its contemporaneous benefits on children, but also in its capacity to have a long-term effect on the promotion and maintenance of a rights-supporting culture. To this end, we provide data on how Hampshire educators were able to successfully implement their program. We examine schools that were very successful in incorporating children's rights across the curriculum and throughout all school policies and practices, and compare their implementation efforts and experiences with schools that were less successful. By identifying the key variables that differentiate success, we aim to facilitate… [Direct]

Kromkowski, John A. (1980). Conceptual Considerations of Ethnicity: Past, Present, and Future. This paper describes the goals and perspective of the Bicentennial Ethnic Racial Coalition (BERC), as they exemplify the relationship between emerging neighborhood consciousness and ethnic/racial consciousness. The perspective of BERC, formed in the early 1970s, is that Federal domestic policy of the past three decades has not appreciably contributed to the total human development of America. The coalition argues that our understanding of American cities must be reoriented in order to account for the importance of multiculturalism in civic, neighborhood, and human development. BERC ideals affirm the basic human rights of all persons to decent material living conditions, to the availability of opportunities for humanly fulfilling work, to ownership of property, to a share in the control of decision making that affects limited resources, and the articulation of the human spirit in diverse cultures of the American people. Further, BERC challenges policy researchers to combine the field…

Hufner, Klaus (1984). The Right to Education: The Case of the Federal Republic of Germany. This paper investigates the extension of educational rights to girls, working class children, and the children of migrant workers in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). The first section discusses the theoretical basis of affirmative action in West Germany, legal provisions for attaining equality in education, and basic features of the West German educational system. Section II presents a legal overview of the right to education at the national and international levels. Although the German constitution does not contain an explicit "basic right to education," German policy is said to have been shaped by judicial interpretation, the influence of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, and the FRG's acceptance of the European Social Charter. Developments in German education, from 1960 to 1980, are outlined in Section III. Statistics are presented to document increased government expenditures to meet the growing demands of German students. Discussed next are…

CREASON, FRANK; MALLAN, JOHN (1965). BRASS RING THINKING. THIS DOCUMENT IS A COPY OF A SPEECH WHICH LOOKS AT EDUCATIONAL CHANGE FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST. THE AUTHORS POINT OUT THAT EDUCATIONAL HISTORY SUPPORTS THE THESIS THAT CHANGES IN THE AIMS AND FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE VIEW THE LARGER SOCIAL CONTEXT HOLDS OF ITS OWN AIMS AND FUNCTIONS. THEY DISCUSSED CURRENT CHANGES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES WITH RESPECT TO TODAY'S GROWING CONCERN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS, AND CONSIDERED THE EFFECTS THIS CONCERN COULD HAVE ON THE IMPETUS FOR CHANGE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES CURRICULUM IF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS CAN DISCARD THE TRADITIONAL VIEWS OF THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES. THE AUTHORS CONTEND THAT THE SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEMBLE BENJAMIN'S SABER-TOOTH CURRICULUM. THE QUESTION OF WHAT IS BEING DONE TO REMEDY THE SITUATION IS RAISED AND DISCUSSED WITH RESPECT TO LEARNING THEORY AND RETENTION. THE MAJOR IDEAS IN SOCIAL STUDIES FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS ARE PRESENTED AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THESE CONCEPTS ARE… [PDF]

Barbira Freedman, Fran√ßoise; Castro Rios, Meredith; Garc√≠a Rivera, Fernando Antonio; Rahman, Elizabeth Ann (2023). Formabiap's Indigenous Educative Community, Peru: A Biosocial Pedagogy. Oxford Review of Education, v49 n4 p536-554. This article provides a descriptive account of the workings of an Indigenous-led teacher training initiative in the Peruvian Amazon (Formabiap) and considers the extent of its transdisciplinary pedagogic approach, with a special focus on the ontological and epistemological stakes of intercultural knowledge exchanges in the context of contemporary global challenges. The article evaluates the extent to which Indigenous pedagogical projects can sustain inter-species relationships that promote a good life in which diverse species, including both humans and plants, can flourish. To extol the potential of Formabiap's 35 year plus Indigenous rights initiative, the authors forward the notion of biosocial pedagogy, a heuristic device that helps value the consubstantial, and relationally entangled epistemologies of Indigenous Life-worlds…. [Direct]

(1979). Fulfilling Our Promises: The United States and the Helsinki Final Act. A Status Report. This report examines compliance by the United States with agreements made in the Helsinki Final Act. The Act was signed in 1975 by leaders of 33 East and West European nations, Canada, and the U.S. It contains numerous cooperative measures aimed at improving East-West relations. This report was prepared by the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), an independent advisory agency that monitors the implementation records of the U.S. and other countries which signed the Final Act. One of the report's purposes is the conscientious examination of the U.S. implementation record, including shortcomings pointed out by some CSCE participants and domestic critics. Four major chapters review U.S. actions in four conceptual areas. The chapter titled "Security in Europe" explores principles such as soverign equality, inviolability of frontiers, and non-intervention in internal affairs. It also examines aspects of military security. The chapter titled "Human… [PDF]

(2000). Hands That Shape the World: Report on the Conditions of Immigrant Women in the U.S. Five Years after the Beijing Conference. This report details the challenges that immigrant women in the United States have faced since the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. It presents a compilation of research and synthesis by immigrants' rights activists and organizations. Data come from immigrant women's testimony. The following topics are featured: "U.S. Immigration Policies Undermine Women's Rights"; "Border Patrol Abuse of Female Migrants"; "Immigration Enforcement's Impact on Women"; "Gender and Asylum"; "Women in Detention"; "Immigrant Women and Welfare Reform"; "Immigrant Women's Health"; "Employment Conditions of Immigrant Women"; "Trafficking in Women"; "Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence"; "Lesbian Immigrant Women"; and "Immigrant Girls and Youth." The report finds that not only has the United States failed to protect the rights of immigrant women, but…

Subrahmanian, R. (2005). Gender Equality in Education: Definitions and Measurements. International Journal of Educational Development, v25 n4 p395-407 Jul. International consensus on education priorities accords an important place to achieving gender justice in the educational sphere. Both the Dakar 'Education for All' goals and the Millennium Development goals emphasise two goals, in this regard. These two goals are distinguished as gender parity goals [achieving equal participation of girls and boys in all forms of education based on their proportion in the relevant age-groups in the population] and gender equality goals [ensuring educational equality between boys and girls]. In turn these have been characterised as quantitative/numerical and qualitative goals respectively. In order to consider progress towards both types of goal, both quantitative and qualitative assessments need to be made of the nature of progress towards gender equality. Achieving gender parity is just one step towards gender equality in and through education. An education system with equal numbers of boys and girls participating, who may progress evenly through… [Direct]

Heitmeyer, Wilhelm; Sitzer, Peter (2008). Right-Wing Extremist Violence among Adolescents in Germany. New Directions for Youth Development, n119 p169-185 Fall. What are the preconditions for right-wing extremist violence among German youths? For several years, the rate of this violence has been increasing in Germany, and the same can be observed for right-wing extremist orientations characterized by the coming together of ideologies of unequal worth and the acceptance of violence as a mode of action. And although it is emphasized that approval of and willingness to use violence do not automatically lead to actual acts of violence, this article suggests that the existence of these convictions in society helps to legitimize attitudes that become expressed in violence, in particular among youths. This article presents a five-stage process model that portrays the underlying preconditions for acts of right-wing extremist violence, the contexts in which such violence takes place, and the factors that cause it to escalate. This structural model is used to outline central empirical findings of recent German quantitative and especially qualitative… [Direct]

Beale, Joel A., Comp. (1972). Information for Inmates, Series # 1; A Bibliography of Fundamental Rights. All of the books cited in this brief bibliography are annotated. Included are books on such subjects as: censorship, the moral and legal rights of prisoners, and basic human and civil rights. Some, if not all, of these books should be part of every prison library collection. (NH)… [PDF]

Roger Mantie (2024). Getting It Right: On the (Im)Possibilities of Play in School Music. Philosophy of Music Education Review, v32 n2 p148-166. Research suggests that when we treat our non-obligatory activities playfully, we are more likely to engage with them and derive meaningfulness from them. Play is of interest to the field of music education on at least two counts: the perceived relationship between play and music, and the perceived educational aspects of play related to human development and behavior. Using Johan Huizinga's definition of play in Homo Ludens as a starting point, I interrogate the ways in which school music may militate against play efforts in music education. I draw particular attention to the problem of group-based musical performance, competition, and how school music in many jurisdictions has capitulated to an impoverished paradigm of "getting it right." I conclude with a brief appeal to re-center play as critically important to the aims of school music…. [Direct]

(1979). Proceedings of a National Multicultural Seminar on Mental Retardation among Minority Disadvantaged Populations (Norfolk, Virginia, October 10-12, 1977). The National Multicultural Seminar on Mental Retardation among Minority Disadvantaged Populations was initiated in response to concern about the root causes of mental retardation especially in mild forms which tend to be more prevalent and more devastating among persons living in depressed, disrupted, and impoverished environments. Nineteen papers from the seminar are provided: \The Issues of Human Rights and Human Services\ (W. Robertson); \Prevention of Environmental Causes\ (M. Ruiz); \Remarks Made\ (C. Kimber); \The Gerontological Aspects of Mental Retardation among Minority Disadvantaged Population\ (P. Chang); \Overview and Current Status of the Gerontological Aspects of Mental Retardation\ (P. Grob); \The Functions of Community Services Administration\ (W. Allison);\Towards Understanding the Need for Minority Participation in the Developmental Disabilities Movement: The Nationwide Study\ (B. Morgan); \Reaching the Low-Income Mentally Retarded Consumer\ (E. Long); \The Stop… [PDF]

Debevec, Vanja; Johnson, Bruce; Manoli, Constantinos C.; Torkar, Gregor (2021). Assessing Children's Environmental Worldviews and Concerns. Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, v11 n1 p49-65. The goal of the present research was to assess the environmental worldviews and concerns of students from the fourth to the seventh grade in Slovenia. The New Ecological Paradigm Scale for Children was translated and validated for use with Slovenian primary school students (N = 310). The students were also asked about their environmental concerns (using statements from the Environmental Motives Scale) and demographic questions. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted for the New Ecological Paradigm scale using AMOS software, confirming a three-dimensional model with ten items. The students showed the highest agreement with the items in the factor Rights of Nature, and the lowest agreement with Human Exemptionalism. The environmental attitudes of the students decreased from the fourth to the seventh grade, while altruistic environmental concerns significantly increased with higher grades. Gender differences were not statistically significant for environmental worldviews and… [PDF]

Newcombe, Nicolina (2022). Reflecting on an Unexpected Challenge in Obtaining Ethical Approval for Research with Adults with Learning Disabilities. Waikato Journal of Education, v27 n2 p27-32. Obtaining ethical approval for my PhD research with adults with learning (intellectual) disabilities presented an unexpected challenge of learning to work with two sets of guidance: the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and the Ethical Conduct in Human Research and Related Activities Regulations (HRR). The CRPD binds States Parties to progress equal rights for people with disabilities of which Article 12, equal recognition before the law, disconnects mental capacity from legal capacity. The HRR protects participants, researchers and institutions and recognises mental capacity as a component of informed consent. In applying the CRPD and the HRR as complementary safeguards, and looking through the lens of edgewalking, I gained an appreciation for positively encountering complexity and incorporating multiple points of view. This article will describe how my challenging experience enabled skill building to develop a more strategic academic voice… [PDF]

Chrostowski, Mariusz (2022). The Effects of Religious Education on Prodemocratic Positions in the Face of the Right-Wing Populism in Poland: Theoretical Analysis and Clues for Educational Practices. Journal of Religious Education, v70 n1 p43-62 Mar. The Right-wing populism in Poland faces multiple challenges with respect to Religious Education. This is a complex issue, given it is not only about school education supporting pro-democratic positions in the modern generation of students, but also the fact that today's populists have participated in long-term and complex educational processes of a similar nature. In this sense, the aim of this article is to seek an answer to the question of how Religious Education in Poland–with all of its theoretical and cognitive background rooted in the Christian vision of God and human and the world–can contribute to the elimination of the alliance of the right-wing populist perspectives from the dominant religion of the nation. The article will explain how practical educational opportunities will help students to understand the political strategy of populists, decipher their presentations and approaches, and so shape a positive attitude towards democracy as a desired ideological system within… [Direct]

Klassen, Daniel; Thom, Douglas J. (1988). Education and Its Management: Science, Art, and Spirit. From the 1960s to the present, the complexion of educational administration has changed greatly. One reason is growing public demand for input into educational decision-making; other factors are found in accountability, evaluation, opportunities for women, human rights, teacher militancy and collective bargaining agreements, changing enrollment trends, pluralism and multicultural concerns, professional development efforts, special education, independent schools, and restricted budgets. This book, comprised largely of reprinted articles from Canadian publications, attempts to consolidate information and critique the existing concepts, procedures, and values inherent in educational administration. This approach is supported by the disproportionate amounts of stress, burnout, and role ambiguity in educators; the discrepancy between educational objectives and real life; and the public's lack of confidence in education. The eight articles in part I address the current Canadian scene, and…

Alderete, Wara, Ed.; And Others (1992). Daughters of Abya Yala: Native Women Regaining Control. This book compiles testimonies of the struggles, everyday life, and accomplishments of Indian women from Central and South America. Following an introduction to the increasing role of Indian women in international forums and indigenous organizations, the words of individual women describe the problems that affect them and their determination to overcome such difficulties. Testimonies discuss physical and sexual abuse of children; the imposition of machismo on indigenous cultures by European invaders; a maternal and infant health project in the Peruvian Amazon; the need for an indigenous curriculum that allows mothers to be involved in their children's education; precontact roles of indigenous men and women; mothers as teachers of culture and spiritual ways; revival of spiritual traditions; goals of international meetings related to indigenous women's human rights, bilingual and intercultural education, and self-determination; religious freedom; self-directed community development;… [PDF]