Combining universal access to school with excel lence has been a his toric di lemma in U.S. schools. This dynamic tension is appearing in other nations as well as information age occupations demand highly literate workforces. Schools have adopted multilevel reform efforts to mee t the chal lenges o f educat ing today’s children. These efforts include: changes in teacher preparation; high expect...

Social theorists in earlier periods have looked at credentialing from the perspective of its service to the economic or social system as opposed to its “protection of the public interest.” Adam Smith regarded the long education and the performance tests that the guilds required as monopolistic constraints on production; Karl Marx saw the same guild system as controlled by the propertied classes...

In this paper I report the findings of a study of primary care physicians’ experiences as they enter the medical profession after residency training. Using narrative inquiry to learn about the participants’ experiences, this study found that despite strong professional socialization during training, the participants constructed their medical practices to meet both their professional and persona...

This study explored the role and function of vocational choice for American Indian (AI) law enforcement officers. Extended Case Method (Burawoy, 1991) was used to investigate complex patterns of coping over time, with intergenerational historical trauma, or soul wound (Duran, 1990; Duran & Duran, 1995; Duran et al., 1998). Specifically, the study sought to examine how this vocation might provid...

Though the anthropologist Clifford Geertz has been tremendously influential across the humanities and social sciences, his impact on media and communication scholarship remains unclear. Geertzian theory, this article argues, can rejuvenate global communication studies by providing a foundation to build a theory of translocalism. The article first highlights the theoretical affinities between Ge...

Slow tourism represents a progressive genre of alternative tourism for offerings, which are in need of re-branding, through the decentralized medium of remote locales in the Caribbean beyond mass-tourism complexes. We propose this new form of slow tourism as a viable promotional identity for alternative tourist information technologies. A further contribution to this new construct ’ s identity ...