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Walter, Pierre – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2012
This paper examines how two sites of adult learning in the food movement create educational alternatives to the dominant U.S. food system. It further examines how these pedagogies challenge racialised, classed and gendered ideologies and practices in their aims, curricular content, and publically documented educational processes. The first case is…
Descriptors: Food, Adult Learning, Ideology, Agricultural Production
ROSNER, JOSEPH – 1954
A STUDY TO INVESTIGATE THE ATTITUDES TOWARD SELF, COLOR, AND RACIAL ROLE OF SELECTED WHITE BOYS IN TWO DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONS IS PRESENTED. ONE GROUP OF CHILDREN CONSISTED OF A MINORITY OF WHITES IN AN INSTITUTIONAL SETTING, AND THE OTHER WAS A MAJORITY GROUP OF WHITE CHILDREN. THE RESEARCH EXPLORED WHETHER GROUP BEHAVIOR WAS BASED ON GROUP STATUS…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Group Behavior, Intergroup Relations
Jennings, Robert E. – 1971
The objective of this study was to determine the influence of changes in New York State political and legislative processes on the political behavior and strategies of education interest groups in seeking State policy change for education. Historical methods were utilized in examining the problem. As interest groups seek their objectives, they…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Educational Policy, Educational Sociology, Group Behavior
Dennison, George – Saturday Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Community Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment, Group Behavior
Bacharach, Samuel B.; And Others – 1983
Conceptualizing militant behavior as a strategic choice involving collective action and occurring within a specific organizational context, this paper examines the impact of various organizational factors on elementary and secondary school teachers' willingness to engage in militant behavior. Teachers in 83 New York districts were surveyed as to…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Group Behavior, Labor Relations, Multiple Regression Analysis
Bacharach, Samuel B.; Mitchell, Stephen M. – 1983
Emphasizing a distinction between interpersonal versus intergroup behavior, this paper investigates the impact of interpersonal and intergroup characteristics on the individual's decision to rely on collective action. Four dimensions of interpersonal versus intergroup behavior--social mobility versus social change, personal deprivation versus…
Descriptors: Behavior, Educational Administration, Elementary School Teachers, Group Behavior
Bacharach, Samuel B. – 1983
Drawing on survey data from 83 New York school districts and case studies of 6 districts, the project reported here explores several aspects of schools and districts as organizations. The conceptual framework guiding the study emphasizes that educational organizations are not governed either by their structure or by the reactions of individuals,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Behavior, Boards of Education