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Peer reviewedLakomski, Gabriele – Educational Management and Administration, 1987
Argues that the case study method of assessing human interactions in organizations provides incomplete information and contains inadequate judgment criteria. Examines epistemological assumptions on which case study or interpretive methodology rests (including cultural analysis of organizations) and recommends an alternative problem-solving model…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Conflict Resolution, Cultural Context, Decision Making
Fosnot, Catherine Twomey – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1984
Describes recent turn in media research to functionalist perspective and brings into focus insights into learning mechanisms that might provide benefits to educational technology researchers. Learning factors that media could facilitate are discussed: self-regulation, conflict resolution and reflexive abstraction; coordination of correspondences…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conflict Resolution, Educational Media, Educational Technology
Download full textSavage, Grant T. – 1985
Intended for researchers and teachers of the small group process, decision making, and negotiation, this paper offers a review and critique of J. Habermas's theory of universal pragmatics. The first section of this paper retraces Habermas's theory, which seeks to free social action from false consciousness (that is, political ideologies) that…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Conflict Resolution, Decision Making
Peer reviewedSagini, Meshack M. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1991
Reports on a study of the perceptions of 42 top- and middle-level administrators at 4 community colleges concerning the planning models and decision-making processes used at their college. Reports that both rural colleges relied on a consensus model, whereas the two urban colleges used autocracy and rational models respectively. (DMM)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, College Administration
Sigel, Irving E. – 1985
A conceptual model is presented for the development of thinking skills by using an instructional model employing high level cognitive demands. "Distancing" is proposed as the concept to denote behaviors or events that separate the child cognitively from the immediate behavioral environment. Forms and functions of distancing behavior are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Objectives, Conflict Resolution, Developmental Stages
McEwan, Barbara; Nimmo, Ginny – 1995
This study assessed whether a classroom foundation based upon constitutional rights and responsibilities would help elementary and secondary school students with emotional disturbances who are being mainstreamed. The framework of Judicious Discipline, which balances individual rights against social responsibility, was applied in public school…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Change, Classroom Techniques, Conflict Resolution
