Contributors

Introduction
Joseph Zajda

1. Technological Change and Education
Martin Carnoy

2. The Myths and Misconceptions of American
Assimilation
Susan Dicker

3. Environmental Education: The Advent of Ecocrisis
Harry Recher

4. Values Education and Character Development
Mark Freakley

5. Multiculturalism, Religion and Education
Jerzy Smolicz

6. Compensatory Education for Equality and Excellence
Harry Passow

7. Continuities in Educational Inequalities
Peter Dwyer

8. Women's Literacy and Empowerment
Nelly Stromquist

9. Gender, Occupation and Educational Intervention
Shmuel Shamai

10. Gakko Soji- The Traditional Custom of Students
Cleaning their School
Shojiro Nakanishi and Edith W. King

11. Students' Real and Ideal Characteristics as
Perceived by Teachers
Yaacov Iram and Nava Maslovaty

12. The School in a Postmodern Society
Peter Aasen

13. Family Values in Russia
Joseph Zajda and Rea Zajda

14. An Alternative Culture for Teaching
Ivor Goodson

15. Strategies for School Change
Linda Behar-Horenstein and Barney M. Berlin