The questionnaire findings on political and economic ideology have been analyzed in Chapter V. It is now our task to study the interview material referring to the same topics. The purpose is, first of all, to concretize our insight into these ideologies. If we investigated, in Chapter V, into the responses of our subjects to a number of set, standardized political and economic ideas and slogans...

South African secondary students see themselves as a ‘new generation’, the first to come of age in the democratic nation. They are intelligent, politically aware and highly motivated, but very few currently stand a chance of achieving their goals of further education and professional careers (Taylor, Muller, Vinjevold, 2003). If the new South Africa is to realise the possibility of a just socie...

This paper introduces and discusses Occitan sociolinguistics as it evolved from the 1970s onward a theory of language contact conflict. It was developed in conjunction with its Catalan counterpart reaction to Joshua Fishman's allocational model diglossia, came response conditions swift social linguistic change Southern France after Second World War. model, proposed mainly at first by Robèrt Laf...

RECENT WORK ON INTERDISCIPLINARITY and knowledge growth has produced a variety of models to capture a process of bewildering complexity. Prominent among these are organic models, which compare knowledge growth to biological processes (e.g., hybridization), and spatial models, based on various suggestive geographical parallels. Part of the background of the dynamic formation, interaction, and di...

rights provisions are valuable even if their contours are not fully determined in advance. They shape the way that political actors understand and articulate the values inherent in the political system; they shape the beliefs of political actors about what they can and cannot do, what they are fighting for and what they are fighting against. But rights are less valuable, indeed not really valua...

Ideas from cognitive science are increasingly in uential and provide insight into the nature of moral judgement. Three core ideas are discussed: modern schema theory, the frequency of automatic decision-making and implicit processes as the default mode of human information processing. The DeŽ ning Issues Test (DIT) measures the beginnings of moral understanding, which are largely non-verbal an...

Informed by Progressive education reforms of the nineteenth and twentieth century, progressive movements in librarianship, the social responsibility movement within the American Library Association (ALA), and recent collaborations of ALA’s youth-focused divisions, the authors link historical precedents with current examples, ideas, and practices to inform initiatives in education and literacy p...

By the late nineteenth century, the United States had emerged as a major industrial nation and an increasingly important force in world politics. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, books set in countries outside the United States proliferated. In particular, books as part of a series, both fiction and nonfiction, were selected for inclusion in public library collections. It is ...