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Watkins, Peter – 1985
This volume is part of a series of monographs from Australia devoted to outlining an alternative approach, based on neo-Marxist concepts, to educational administration. The introductory essay in this volume attempts to develop and clarify the basis for an alternative, dialectical approach to educational administration, which emphasizes the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Bureaucracy, Educational Administration
Mieczkowski, Bogdan – 1995
This book is part of a continuing study of dysfunctional bureaucracy. Chapter 1 provides the framework for organizing the discussion on the dysfunctional bureaucracy as it occurs in academia. This chapter covers such topics as the protective strata of dysfunctional bureaucrats, the judiciary as part of the protective strata, bureaucratic…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Bureaucracy, College Faculty
Download full textSmith, Richard, Ed.; Wexler, Philip, Ed. – 1995
The chapters in this book originated in an invited seminar at the Griffith University Gold Coast (Australia) campus on the occasion of a visit by Philip Wexler in December 1993. The seminar explored ways and means of transcending a postmodernist analysis of education. Although the examples are predominantly Australian, the issues are…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Critical Theory, Economics, Educational Change
Graff, Harvey J.; Street, Brian V.; Jones, Stan – Centre for Literacy, 1998
This document is a collection of three parts: two extended papers and one shorter commentary on the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS). These originally appeared in "Literacy Across the Curriculum" in response to an invitation for comment to several prominent international researchers. The first of these entitled "The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Surveys, Cultural Influences
Beyer, Landon E., Ed.; Apple, Michael W., Ed. – 1988
Over the past few decades, educators have witnessed a slowly growing but significant change in the way they approach their work. Professional curriculum debate now tends to be over procedures, not over what counts as legitimate knowledge. This book aims to reintegrate the ethical, personal, and political into curriculum discourse and decision…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment
Direct linkLeahy, Anna, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2005
This book remaps theories and practices for teaching creative writing at university and college level. This collection critiques well-established approaches for teaching creative writing in all genres and builds a comprehensive and adaptable pedagogy based on issues of authority, power, and identity. A long-needed reflection, this book shapes…
Descriptors: Mentors, Grading, Creative Writing, Writing Instruction
Paludi, Michele A., Ed. – 1991
This book brings together extensive research and writing on sexual harassment in higher education examining it as a misuse of authority by male faculty members and as a confluence of power relations and sexism in institutions stratified by sex. The thirteen contributions are grouped into four sections the first of which, "Sexual Harassment:…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Higher Education, Legal Problems
American Council of Life Insurance, New York, NY. – 1979
New and cheaper means of acquisition and distribution are giving individuals easier access to information. This has contributed to dissatisfaction with corporate governance and business management and is encouraging the growth of new types of interest groups that are seeking a voice in the private sector. This may lead to a reversal of the trend…
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Education, Business, Decision Making
Kelly, Gail P., Ed.; Slaughter, Sheila, Ed. – 1991
This book presents a collection of essays on the effect of national policies and practices on women's access to higher education, the type of courses in which women are enrolled, women's roles as academics, and how the outcomes of higher education affect women in the academic workforce and the economy. Various countries are represented in the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Education, Educational Environment, Equal Education
Hoffman, Allan M., Ed.; Summers, Randal W., Ed. – 2000
This collection of papers highlights topics relating to leadership in higher education. After a "Foreword" (Dean L. Hubbard) and "Introduction" (Allan M. Hoffman and Randal W. Summers), the 12 chapters are: (1) "Organizational Structure, Management, and Leadership for the Future" (Richard Alfred and Scott Rosevear); (2) "The Practitioner's…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrators, Collective Bargaining, College Administration
DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed.; Irwin-DeVitis, Linda, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2010
Written by a prominent array of scholars and practitioners, this book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education. For too long, harmful public myths and lies have portrayed teenagers as a principal cause of our nation's social ills. Similar unfair charges have been lodged…
Descriptors: Caring, African Americans, Females, Democracy
Wallenfeldt, E. C. – 1983
Current conditions at U.S. colleges and universities are discussed. Consideration is given to the nature of special interests and factions in American society and the system-wide influences of corporate power, militarization, racism, sexism, and overquantification as they pertain to higher education. The internal and external governance of…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Planning, College Role, Consortia
Gumbert, Edgar B., Ed. – 1981
This book contains three essays presented as lectures at Georgia State University in April and May 1981. The authors are educators in Canada and Great Britain. The introduction, written by Edgar B. Gumbert of Georgia State University, provides an overview of educational trends and developments on which the topics of the three essays are based. In…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Authoritarianism, Educational Change, Educational History
Pace, Judith L., Ed.; Hemmings, Annette B., Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
This book describes and analyzes authority relationships in classrooms through explorations of theory, prior research, and contemporary qualitative studies. The emphasis is on the social construction of authority and the crucial role authority plays in K-16 teachers' pedagogy and students' academic engagement and achievement. The introductory…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Classroom Environment, Social Theories, Democracy
Delpit, Lisa, Ed.; Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour, Ed. – 2002
This book explores the many Englishes that are spoken in the classroom and the layers of politics, power, and identity that those different forms carry. There are 12 papers in three parts. Part 1, "Language and Identity," includes: "Ovuh Dyuh" (Joanne Kilgour Dowdy); and "Ebonics: A Case History" (Ernie Smith). Part 2, "Languages in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Black Dialects, Black Students
