The following articles come from different intellectual traditions than usually appear in NEWS for Teachers of Political Science. Previously, thoughtful NEWS pieces have ranged widely from the use of metaphors and simulations to techniques for lecturing and leading classroom discussions to reviews of current textbooks. However, two traditions have been largely missing: developments in contemporary educational thought, curriculum theory in particular, and continental philosophy. Continental philosophy has had important influence in the field of curriculum theory as well as American political science. Therefore, it seems appropriate that some of these developments explicitly be brought to the attention of teachers of political science. The articles by Whitty and Giroux deal with recent developments in pre-collegiate educational thought; Dallmayr, with developments in continental philosophy in this century; Shapiro, with implications of post-structuralist thought for teaching about politics; and I explain how developments in analytic as well as continental philosophy have shaped a graduate seminar in research methodology.