STANLEY WILLIAM ROTHSTEIN is Professor of Education, in the Graduate Department of Education Administration at California State University, Fullerton./e He is the author of Identity and Ideology: Sociocultural Theories of Schooling (Greenwood Press, 1991) and other books. Presently he is editing an academic Handbook of Schooling in Urban America for Greenwood Press and preparing a new book, The Phenomenology of the Imaginary.