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A Guide to Building Education Partnerships: Navigating Diverse Cultural Contexts to Turn Challenge into Promise
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Hora, Matthew T.; Millar, Susan B. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2011
Education partnerships are central to--and often a requirement of--most education reform initiatives promoted by state and local governments, by foundations, and by business funders. Many fail for failure to understand the dynamics of their complex relationships. This book provides insights and guidance to enable prospective and existing education…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Administrative Principles, Planning, Cultural Differences
Counseling in the Enterprise Culture.
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Cummins, Anne-Marie; Hoggett, Paul – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1995
Describes the way therapeutic models and language have been used in support of human flexibility and "human resource development" concepts in the 1980s and 1990s. Examines use of humane managerial rhetoric to mask practice of increasingly ruthless public and private-sector organizations, and the dilemmas for counselors operating within these kinds…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Change, Administrative Principles, Counseling
Administrative Science as Socially Constructed Truth.
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Astley, W. Graham – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1985
Administrative scientists superimpose analytic frameworks on their observations when trying to make knowledge meaningful. The generation of knowledge should be seen as an essentially interpretive and subjective activity. An awareness of this fact may encourage a view of scientific progress that is reinforced by the social context in which research…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Cognitive Structures, Knowledge Level
Concerning the Management of a Touring Theatre.
Wilcox, Lola – 1977
The first of four related manuals describing the goals and methods of an established developmental theatre project at the University of Colorado, this manual presents a hierarchical framework and practical guidelines for training the management personnel of a touring theatre group. Stressing the value of cooperation among the participants, the…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrator Responsibility, Administrators
Learning to Manage: A Program Just for Directors.
Thomas, Megan E. – NHSA Journal, 1996
Describes the Head Start-Johnson & Johnson Management Fellows program, whose mission is strengthening management skills of Head Start directors by providing training in human resources management, organizational design and development, financial management, computers and information systems, operations, marketing, and development of strategic…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrator Education, Administrators
Administrative Support Systems: A Curriculum Model.
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Miller, Georgia B. – Office Systems Research Journal, 1983
Describes a curriculum model for courses in administrative management. This undergraduate program includes four courses: (1) introduction to administrative systems, (2) management of administrative services, (3) management of data systems, and (4) administrative systems applications. The article also discusses electives, background courses, and…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Administrator Education
An Evaluation of the Use of the PSI Method of Instruction in a Course in Pharmacy Administration Principles.
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Curtiss, Frederic R. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1981
A course in pharmacy administration principles at the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy taught by Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) was found to produce generally favorable student evaluation of course and instructor. Examples of instructional unit objectives are provided. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrator Education, Course Descriptions