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Download full textDuhon, Gwendolyn M. – 1999
This paper presents an outline of teacher empowerment issues. Section 1, "Definitions of Terms and Concepts Related to Teacher Empowerment," focuses on "Teacher Empowerment,""Dimensions of Empowerment,""Three Views of Empowerment,""Issues Related to Empowerment,""Terms Frequently Used in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Power Structure
Peer reviewedGaziel, Haim H. – European Journal of Education, 1992
This study of the composition and operation of both "top down" and "participative" school management teams in 18 Israeli elementary schools considers (1) how management teams are organized, solve problems, and make decisions; and (2) how the operation of the management team influences school effectiveness. No relationship…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSolorzano, Daniel G. – Teaching Sociology, 1989
Reflects on the implementation of Paulo Freire's problem-posing method in an East Los Angeles College (California) course on the media portrayal of Chicanos. Examines Freire's pedagogy and its application in the classroom, and critiques the process. Describes recent work applying the Freirean methodology in college classrooms. (Author/LS)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Course Descriptions
Heifetz, Ronald A. – 1994
This book grew out of a course at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (Massachusetts) in leadership designed to give students insight and tools for working in various official and unofficial roles where leading others can become essential to effective performance. After an introduction, Part 1 presents an overview of the meaning of…
Descriptors: College Students, Decision Making Skills, Higher Education, Interaction Process Analysis
Critical Games: Four Games To Help Develop Critical Perspectives on Economic and Social Development.
Cumming, James A., Ed. – 1994
The four games in this booklet are designed to stimulate critical thinking about the effects of structural and cultural issues on society and on the process of social change. The first and original game, "The Growth Game," gives participants a hands-on experience with the basic theoretical constructs of a Marxian critique of the mainstream tenets…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged
