This paper explores the discourses of power in adult literacy and numeracy (ALN) teaching and learning that were highlighted through the processes of accessing and gaining the views of ALN learners for a research project on the quality of learning and teaching. It details the problems encountered in gaining access to this group of learners and…

Employing Bourdieu's notion of social field, this research conceptualizes New Jersey's alternate route to teacher certification as a contested arena, in which the interests, ideologies, and visions of different stake-holders regarding the character of public education have collided. Findings for this study are primarily based on data from the New…

In recent years there has been a growth in interdisciplinary work which has argued that disability is not an isolated, individual medical pathology but instead a key defining social category like "race", class and gender. Seen in this way disability provides researchers with another analytic tool for exploring the nature of power. Running almost…

This chapter provides an overview of board governance, its effectiveness, and changes over more than four decades. The authors also offer strategies for creating partnerships between presidents and trustees that lead to future institutional success.

Extremism is an acute problem of the present day. Moods of extremism are manifested in all spheres of the life and activities of young people--in education, work, business, political life, and leisure activity. They can be found in both individual and group social self-determination and are influenced by the immediate social environment as well as…

After a short theoretical discussion of the topic, research findings on the status, role, and authority of the elementary school principalship are presented. The findings are based on an attitudes questionnaire administered to a sample of school system personnel and elementary school inspectors. (Author/IRT)

The organizational patterns of the European School system represent an amalgam of continental educational practices. The European School serves children from Belgium, France, Federal Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. (Author/IRT)

Christopher Hodgkinson's four books on the philosophy of administration and leadership present what is probably the most sustained treatment of values in administrative action, theory, and philosophy currently available. Throughout his work, his treatment of the inescapable integration of values with the exercise of power and responsibility speaks…

A general discussion of overt patterns of control which determine why, how, and for what purposes educational broadcasting materials are produced. (Author/HB)

A review of some of the evidence that the Annan Committee in Great Britain has received discussing the various proposed methods of organization and control suggested by different bodies. The evidence of ten submissions insofar as it relates to the control of educational broadcasting has been considered. (Author/HB)

A national effort has emerged to foster ownership of broadcasting facilities by members of racial and ethnic minorities. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the courts, the executive branch of government, and members of congress, have all backed the case for more minority ownership in the broadcasting industry. Special interest groups,…

Describes the concept of power and its bases in the university library: (1) hierarchical authority; (2) resource control; (3) the ability to cope with organizational problems; and (4) units or functions on which the administrator is dependent for success. The use of power to further the goals of the library is discussed. (Eight references) (MES)

Defines courage in educational settings and explores the development of conditions that allow courageous actions. (MD)

Comments on events in Chile and Algiers; short homage to Neruda. (SK)