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Download full textElkins, John, Ed.; Luke, Allan, Ed. – 2000
Suggesting that teaching in New Times requires that educators read and re/mediate the social relations, the cultural knowledges, and the relationships of power between adolescents and their social, biological, and semiotic universes, this collection of essays offers new ways of seeing and talking about adolescents and their literacies. Most of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Hannaway, Jane, Ed.; Carnoy, Martin, Ed. – 1993
In this book, eight contributors examine issues related to the likely effects of the decentralization of school governance on educational practice. Two major themes emerge in the book. The first (chapters 1 through 4) is that governance reforms in education may have little to do with what actually happens in schools, but have much to do with…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Whillock, Rita Kirk, Ed.; Slayden, David, Ed. – 1995
Most of the research on hate has focused on specific acts of hatred, but little attention has been given to the rhetorical expression and strategies of hate. The insights of scholars from a variety of disciplines have been gathered in this collection to explore hate as a communication phenomenon. Essays include: (1) "Elite Discourse and the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Hate Crime, Homosexuality
Jeffery, Roger, Ed.; Basu, Alaka M., Ed. – 1996
Most of the papers in this volume were presented at a workshop in New Delhi (India) in April 1993, although some revisions and additions are included. Presenting primary evidence from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh and existing survey and census data, the papers in this collection explore interrelated issues of women's autonomy, female…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Causal Models, Elementary Secondary Education, Females
Huxham, Chris, Ed. – 1996
Although interorganizational collaboration is becoming increasingly significant as a means of achieving organizational objectives, it is not an easy process to implement. Drawing on the work of authors with extensive experience, an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of creating collaborative advantage is presented in this volume.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Cooperation, Cooperation, Cooperative Planning
Direct linkSteinberg, Shirley R., Ed.; Cannella, Gaile S., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
This volume of transformed research utilizes an activist approach to examine the notion that nothing is apolitical. Research projects themselves are critically examined for power orientations, even as they are used to address curricular problems and educational or societal issues. Philosophical perspectives that have facilitated an understanding…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Research Problems, Language Usage
Ricketts, Samuel Clifton, Ed. – 1979
This document includes seven papers aimed at administrators of postsecondary schools, especially in Tennessee. Topics which are addressed are the problems and concerns of supervision; informal power structure in vocational education; program articulation; effective use of advisory councils in area vocational-technical schools; occupational…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Anthologies, Career Counseling, Educational Finance
Plaut, Suzanne, Ed.; Sharkey, Nancy S., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2003
The book addresses a number of pressing issues: how race, culture, power, and language affect actual classrooms and pedagogies; the social processes and school structures that can either hinder or support student learning; and the extent to which teachers have--or should have--control over their day-to-day instructional practices and decisions…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Urban Education
Collins, Paul V.; And Others – 1980
Growing out of a meeting to explore alternative directions for community-based education in the Teacher Corps Program, the three papers in this document provide insight into how neighborhood involvement, the coordination and collaborative delivery of human services, and the utilization of political processes can be used to strengthen a community's…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Resources
Clegg, Stewart R., Ed.; Palmer, Gill, Ed. – 1996
This book recognizes the political nature of management knowledge, as a discourse produced from, and reproducing, power processes within and between organizations. Critical examinations of certain current management theories--lean production, excellence, entrepreneurship--are examples of relations of power that intermingle with relations of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Education, Case Studies, Change Agents
Ritchie, Joy S.; Wilson, David E. – 2000
This book explores the power of narrative in understanding the complexities and contradictions of what it means to develop as a teacher. It argues that the development of a professional identity is inextricable from personal identity, suggesting that when teachers have the opportunity to compose their own stories of learning within a supportive…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Individual Development, Lesbianism
Peer reviewedMathison, Sandra, Ed. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
Five papers and an introduction discuss internal evaluation (IE), concentrating on the various sources of authority for IE and ways of enhancing IE authority. The roles of internal evaluators, conflicts in the evaluation process, and evaluation in a state education agency are reviewed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluators
Maxcy, Spencer J. – 1994
A collection of chapters examines the applicability of postmodern/poststructural theory to educational leadership and school restructuring in the United States today. Based on the assertion that educational administration research and publications have been traditional, conservative, and naive, this book presents a review of Weberian positivism,…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology
Feinberg, Walter, Ed.; Lubienski, Christopher, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2008
Perhaps no school reform has generated as much interest and controversy in recent years as the proposal to have parents select their children's schools. Opponents of school choice fear that rolling back the government's role will lead to profit-driven financial scandals, sectarianism, and increased class and racial isolation. School choice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Urban Schools, Race
Freebody, Peter, Ed.; Welch, Anthony R., Ed. – 1993
Of interest to students of literacy, education, planning, and policy studies and cross-cultural analysis, this book examines the cultural and political dynamics underlying literacy. Case studies focusing on the historical role of literacy and the maintenance or suppression of marginal groups are complemented in the book by reports of data on…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Case Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
