Personal opinions from seven school board members about bringing students into the decision-making process. (LN)

In the fall of 1968, San Francisco State College was the site of one of many campus disturbances." The course of events at SFSC began with a student strike; it went on to include physical battle between police and students and a labor strike on the part of the AFT local. In the present paper, the course of these events at SFSC has been addressed…

This article examines the effects of the following forces on curriculum changes and development: (1) The drive for power, (2) the appeal of the dollar, (3) the rapid growth of accumulation of knowledge, and (4) the social and human needs of people in the schools. (JH)

Examines definitions and concepts of power and their application in family organizations. Inappropriate power plays are often utilized by family members to control or dominate others. Presents techniques for identifying such conflicts and redirecting the flow of power. (Author/WAS)

Asserts that women have been left out of the development process. Argues that integration of women into the mainstream through education and employment is a myth because it is based upon the male-dominated socioeconomic system that perpetuates oppression and marginalization. (SK)

The Caribbean and other parts of the Third World have been preoccupied with becoming nations, in the accepted international sense. Education has been the prime vehicle through which ideologies such as capitalism, Marxism, colonialism, and nationalism have been promulgated. (SK)

In order to use power, human resources development practitioners must first differentiate it from authority and understand its purpose. The three keys to power are engineering collaboration, brokering knowledge, and managing consequences. (SK)

The author argues that we understand little about the actual processes of determining course content and that we need probing case studies exploring the history of particular decisions, including time lines, personalities, motivations, roles of particular people, and the materials used. (Author/SJL)

Examines the determinants of power and budget allocations on two campuses of a large, state university system. Faculty positions and budget allocations were a function of student enrollment and departmental power, and departmental power was related to the amount of a department's grant and contract funds as well as to its enrollment. (Author/IRT)

A theoretical discussion of client and social worker perceptions and the use of authority in child protective services. (CM)

Integrates the concept of power with situational leadership by relating the perception of a leader's power bases with leadership styles. Sources of power are identified; situational leadership is reviewed; and the Power Perception Profile is discussed. Maturity levels and their relationships to power sources and leadership styles are discussed.…

Interpretations of truth and knowledge are contingent upon power relations. Attempts to unsettle the power-knowledge balance to include different perspectives are often resisted by appeals to the "common-sense" ideology of dominant truths. (SK)

Food supply and scarcity are closely linked with issues of gender and poverty. Traditional economic development models do not guarantee equitable distribution. Home economists, with their knowledge of the economic food chain and women's cooperative enterprises, can work to improve food security worldwide. (SK)

Surveys Indiana journalists, finding that two models tested (the sociocultural model and the organizational model, both grounded in conception of power differences between harassed and harasser) have explanatory power, but that they explain the same results in different ways and sometimes combinations of the models provide better explanations of…

There is a powerful and common glass ceiling (barrier that prevents capable employees from being promoted) that affects men as much as women. Between middle management and the executive level, corporate culture shifts to one based on power and a worker must play by new rules even if these have never been explained. (JOW)