This book pursues empirical and qualitative inquiries about teachers and the meaning they find in their work. Data come from research conducted in 1984-1985. The study examined various themes and issues on how teachers' attitudes have remained constant or changed in the 2 decades following a similar study. Interviews with teachers as part of the…

This paper considers the language patterning in two situations, the student-staff meeting and student resolutions, with special reference to how the use of modal items in directives can serve as a guide to the balance of power in student-staff interactions. (Contains 10 references.) (Author)

Evolving from experiences in a graduate seminar that led to new understandings of feminist pedagogy, this theory of feminist pedagogy in action rests on four phenomena that are each necessary but none sufficient. After describing the creation of a learning community as well as a search of educative research, a delineation of the four phenomena is…

A practical, research-based theory about how colleges and universities allocate resources among budgetary units is proposed. The theory was developed from interview responses at six institutions as well as questionnaire results. In phase one, interviews were conducted with 26 key administrators centrally involved in budgetary decisions at the six…

One of the thorniest problems related to negotiations is the dilemma of the principal--his perception of his changing power potential and his relationships with staff members as well as the implications of contract administration for his relationship to the administrative hierarchy. (Author/IRT)

A fictional university is used as an example to discuss campus power. (PG)

Path models are formulated to determine the relative causal impact of evaluation of reward policies, organizational stature, and professional field on three forms of faculty support of institutional authority structure. Findings indicate that evaluation of reward policies has the strongest effect. (Author)

If America's schools are to meet the needs of the 21st Century, they must be reinvented and restructured. This book is no restructuring cookbook, but is designed to provide ingredients that may be useful in inventing recipes to satisfy local tastes. Chapter 1 discusses purpose in the life of organizations, concentrating explicitly on purpose in…

Two structures of authority coexist in colleges and universities: one that manages the supporting functional services and one that deals with the production areas of scholarship, teaching, and learning. This literature review defines organizational structure, discusses traditional organization models such as bureaucratic models, and outlines the…

This book offers a critical perspective in examining how the dominant power interests influence sport and its role in society. It provides insights into how government, big business, the mass media, and educational institutions gain and maintain power and wealth while sport participants and spectators look to sport for enjoyment, creative…

Higher education governance in Yugoslavia is described, and comparisons are made to the United States. Major differences between the countries are reflected in three areas: physical facilities, internal relations, and external relations. In the main, physical facilities at Yugoslav faculties are well-developed and maintained, despite the fact that…

An attempt to explain the behavior of local, state and national teacher organizations by reference to the ideological basis for their activities, this paper links professionalism and excellence to previous organizational activity and demonstrates their continuity. Significant topics include the professionalization of teaching amid societal…

A study of collaboration and the ongoing negotiation of authority in police helicopter work focused on inflight communication in one helicopter during two weeks of operation. Data were drawn from audio and video recordings of internal and external communications obtained inflight and from observation and physiological indicators of stress and…

Noting that since democratization of communication is part of the broad social process, and that any given form of democratic communication is the result of a dialectical tension between the social factors tending toward concentration of social power and contrary factors tending toward redistribution of that power, this paper argues that it is…