Recounts a year in the life of a new principal. The author discovered the primary elements of survival in the fishbowl to be establishing positive school-community relations, developing patience, maintaining a global perspective on the organization's activities, and acquiring resiliency in response to the continual ebb and flow of people, ideas,…

Discussion of managing instructional development projects focuses on organization--the step between planning and implementation. Results of poor organization are discussed, and three major tasks of the manager are explained: establishing work groups; assigning responsibilities and authority; and delineating relationships between groups. (Contains…

Argues that the hegemony of state-structured and territorially-bound public life mediated by the mass media is being eroded. States that in its place, a multiplicity of networked spaces of communication that are not tied immediately to territory, and that irreversibly fragment anything resembling a spatially-integrated public sphere within a…

Multicultural education occurs in environments that consciously recognize the existence of racism, celebrate all cultures, infuse diversity in the curriculum, make it a continuous spiraling process, encourage critical thinking, and seek reform and change. (SK)

Reviews situations in which administrators are justified in substituting their decisions for those of students, offers rationale and legal foundation for such actions, gives suggested process to follow for administrators who feel that students decisions are inappropriate, and discusses situations illustrating that administrators sometimes must…

Gender trainers must attend carefully to issues of power and resistance. Construing power as property does little to explain complex relations. A better approach is understanding power as action and resistance as a form of exercised power. (SK)

Transformative research should be (1) ethical--with attention to human rights and social justice; (2) emancipatory--contributing to reduction of oppression; (3) empowering--serving marginalized and disadvantaged groups; and (4) holistic--identifying relationships between parts and the whole, micro and macro contexts, local and global issues. (SK)

Discusses the politics of social science research and locates the development of transformative research within debates about postmodernism. Provides an example of a transformative research project highlighting the relationship between power and knowledge. (SK)

Comments to a previous article focusing on power and method in linguistic research. It is suggested that the method advocated is worthwhile, modifiable for other disciplines, and should be read and discussed by scholars from many fields. (VWL)

Discusses the role of library trustees or board members in public library administrative decisions, examines managerial styles among public library directors, and describes situations that invite the board to micromanage. Sidebar "Success in 10 Steps" suggests ten steps to maintain a balance of power between staff and trustees. (LRW)

Contributes to scholarship on sexual harassment. Finds that men's "power over" standpoint and the related fear of marginalization clash with women's "power with" standpoint and the related fear of physical harm. Argues that managers and researchers need to understand both standpoints to better understand the dynamics of sexual harassment and how…

Contributes to research on speech acts, power, and the negotiation of shared meanings. Argues that a primary off-record purpose of ostensible lies and of ostensible speech acts in general is to assert or affirm a status or power difference between speaker and addressee. Shows how ostensible lies are speech acts that flout the rules governing the…

Analyzes one case of sexual harassment at a university, illustrating how university communities provide conditions under which sexual harassment is naturalized. Illustrates how various discourses shaped knowledge in the public domain, while the voices of women students and feminist discourses on sexual harassment were marginalized or silenced.…

A survey of 214 female university employees found that gender harassment was most frequently experienced, but it was not related to age. Harassment by peers was associated with higher stress and intent to quit. Harassment by higher-level men was associated with a wider variety of negative outcomes. (SK)

Different perspectives on critical literacy emphasize the relationship between language and power in terms of domination, access, diversity, or design. These orientations are interdependent, and all must be woven together to achieve the goal of critical literacy: equity and social justice. (SK)