The concept of the principal as the sole instructional leader of a school is quickly changing. Substantial evidence from schools with successful instructional programs indicate this responsibility has been spread among many staff members. Teachers who have been trained in the functions of leadership, instruction, and student learning are becoming…

This books aims to change the way the reader views radical literacy education, offering a personal look at the Freirean ideas that guided an educator's early years of teaching, and the theories and classroom experiences that urged her to take a second look. Through her own experience, the author demonstrated the power of sustained dialogue between…

This study examined the differences in family closeness and power structure between first semester college freshmen and upperclassmen. Fifty-two freshmen and fifty-four upperclassmen completed the Family Systems Test (Gehring & Feldman, 1988) to indicate the closeness and power structure in their immediate families. Aspen-Welch t-tests were used…

This paper discusses the misuse of power among boards of education, central office and building administrators, teachers, and the media. It describes several cases: members of a board of education who hired a family member; an assistant superintendent who, out of jealousy, organized a smear campaign against a new principal; a high school principal…

Client change in therapy is a result of the psychological impact of counselor's remarks on the client. Impelling forces arise from the power-dependence relationship between the counselor and client. Restraining forces are resistance and opposition. Sources and characteristics of power, resistance, and opposition are presented. (Author/LA)

Explores environmental conditions, including formal aspects of political structure and the climate of governmental responsiveness, which are associated with the incidence of political protest activities directed toward urban institutions in American cities. Suggests that the incidence of protest is related to the nature of the political…

Discusses the new Appalachian movement, based on the assumption that mountain people are a distinct and maligned cultural minority; the people of Appalachia, white, black and red, have begun to strike back against the dam-builders, strip-miners, and others they say are gouging out the region's mineral resources by the cheapest means possible no…

A number of testable propositions are developed which relate the variables of compliance, mobility, and size to motivation for clique formation and to constraints within which cliques form. Five clique types are discussed. (Author/JN)

The white professional researcher is held responsible for the creation and refinement of the social conditioning techniques employed to establish and maintain dependent and acquiescent behavior in black people; dominant emphasis placed on why blacks permit whites to do what they do.'' (Author/JM)

In testing a synthetic view of power, the author draws on teachers' perceptions of principals' power behaviors. Focuses on the relationships between three subtypes of power (coercion, authority, and influence) and conflict or consensus effects of power. (Author)

Student perceptions of the distributution of power in colleges and universities may be a factor in campus unrest. This study is an exploratory attempt to measure these perceptions on two different campuses and to compare present perception with what is seen as ideal. (Author)

The data presented here indicates improved opportunities for a larger role for Mexican Americans in Texas politics and may be used as a bench mark to periodically measure the rate and direction of political change. (Author)

After reviewing the historical and legal background of race relations in South Africa, the author reviews his experiences at a recent conference on Accelerated Development in Southern Africa,'' held in Johannesburg. (JM)