El Proyecto Algebra: Un movimiento organizativo inspirado en Ella

En este artículo se plantea uno de los problemas más centrales de la educación: el problema de la verdadera igualdad de oportunidades y del derecho de los individuos a planificar su currículum. Aunque el sistema de selección estadounidense contra el que se rebelan los participantes en el proyecto Algebra pueda parecer muy lejano al sistema pretendidamente igualitario de nuestro país, hay un paralelismo entre ambos mayor de lo que pudiera pensarse. Los mecanismos de la selección son quizá menos explícitos en nuestro sistema curricular, pero igualmente efectivos y sus raíces estriban en la separación entre la cultura escolar y la cultura familiar, entre el niño como alumno y el niño como ciudadano, entre los agentes educativos comunitarios y los agentes educativos escolares.

Lo que los autores de este artículo plantean para el caso concreto del acceso al álgebra en las comunidades negras de Estados Unidos es igualmente válido para cualquier materia y para cualquier colectivo de individuos cuyo entorno social esté disgregado de la cultura oficial impuesta por la escuela: la necesidad de unir sentido con significado en el diseño de la educación. O, lo que es lo mismo, plantear ésta como un desafío para el conjunto de la comunidad, recuperando para los nuevos contenidos que la sociedad exige los modos de enseñanza tradicionales, donde la motivación viene dada por la implicación de todos los agentes educativos de la comunidad en la instrucción del niño.     

When is the personal professional in public child welfare practice? The influence of intimate partner and child abuse histories on workers in domestic violence cases

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this article is to examine children's services workers' (CSWs') personal histories of abuse and their influence on professional responses to allegations of domestic violence. METHOD: Using an anonymous questionnaire, data were collected from CSWs in two large urban counties in Southern California who participated in a domestic violence training program (n=303). It was hypothesized that CSWs' responses to domestic violence cases would be affected by personal histories of abuse and the degree to which the CSWs identified with battered women. RESULTS: Approximately one-half of the respondents reported experiencing physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner. One-third of respondents reported physical abuse, and 22%, sexual abuse during childhood. The experience of childhood sexual abuse, especially for female CSWs, was associated with increased support for removal of children whose mother is being abused. Those CSWs with a history of partner violence who identified with battered women were less likely to approve of removing children from the battered mother than were CSWs without partner abuse history or identification with battered women. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings provide support for expanded training efforts that recognize the ongoing impact of victimization on CSWs' professional functioning.     

Vocational guidance in Japan

She is the author of three books and several articles on counselling and career guidance.     

School education and development of gender perspectives and sexuality in Japan

This study aimed to evaluate changes in the attitudes of Japan’s post-war youth towards gender equality and sexuality, and to examine whether these attitudes bore a relationship to school education. Different generations were delineated based on changes in courses of study and year of birth, and semi-structured interviews were conducted enquiring about experiences and opinions during secondary school days. We examined sexuality education in both junior high school (ages 12–15 years) and high school (15–18 years), views on premarital sex, views on marriage and divorce, and views on gender roles. Fifty-three survey participants were involved in the study: 30 women and 23 men. The characteristics of each generation were examined in relation to corresponding courses of study and the textbooks available in junior high and high schools, identifying both homologies and differences between the messages courses contained and the expressed beliefs of different generations of informants.     

SUSTAINING FEATURES DEPARTMENT

On November 16, 1972, U. S. District Judge John H. Pratt ruled in Adams v. Richardson. Following is the complete text of the decision.