Examines how teachers' and students' unacknowledged disciplinary and professional investments shape power dynamics in the classroom. Describes how participants in a study of undergraduate web authoring courses struggled to make their definitions of technological literacy the privileged definitions of the classroom. Questions the potential…

Examines whether nonverbal behavior affects how people perceive a female employee's power base. U.S. undergraduate students read vignettes describing a female employee engaged in three types of nonverbal behavior, then rated their perception of her power base. Reports an increase in student perception of coercive power when direct eye contact was…

Presents a critique of Mildred D. Taylor's "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" with regard to its positioning of the child subject. Proposes that the novel contrasts classic works of children's fiction by following a trajectory of child agency, which is enabled through the novel's racial specificity. Discusses the role of historical…

Examines five issues related to females as mentors in higher education: self-disclosure and personal boundaries, nurturing, female authority, conflict and competition, and hierarchy. Considers these issues central to understanding the difficulties women have in the mentoring process. (SK)

Addresses the lack of progress by Black people and women to reach positions of power and policy influence and the authorities' failure to deliver services that meet the needs of both groups. Discusses issues related to local government in Great Britain. (JOW)

The article examines negative attitudes in academia toward administration noting that most academic administrators actually prefer management to teaching. The university cultural hierarchical mind-set which values teachers over administrators is discussed. Administrators are encouraged to demonstrate clear thinking and competence in faculty…

Studies ways that teachers and principals in South Carolina can influence (fudge) personnel evaluation programs. Discusses the shared nature of power in school organization that permits such practices. (FMW)

Considers several areas in which business communication instructors uphold the institutional norms of male power and why they should question doing so. Analyzes how people (including women) may be unconsciously sexist despite good intentions. Advocates prodding students to think about the relationships between business communication and power. (SR)

Literacy must go beyond reading and writing to become part of the process of empowering marginalized people, especially women. A crusade for women's literacy is both an educational and a political project requiring revision of content and materials so that they are consciously emancipating rather than perpetuating the status quo. (SK)

Britain's higher education system illustrates how increased governmental influence can change social systems and produce unintended consequences. A model of change used to analyze this situation also suggests a form of accountability that can reduce unintended consequences, based on sharing of both power and responsibility by government and…

Provides a feminist critique of rational-choice theory and the interdisciplinary feminist theories of sociology. Applies the separative model of self to four assumptions of the neoclassical economics version of rational-choice theory. Uses research on marital power to illustrate how removing distorting assumptions can help illuminate sociological…

Calculated Cronbach's alpha coefficients for five recent studies (N=1,723) which used the Manifest Needs Questionnaire (MNQ) to measure needs for achievement, autonomy, affiliation, and dominance. Results showed acceptable levels of internal consistency for achievement and dominance needs. Found support for autonomy and affiliation needs with some…

Analyzes the way black and white working-class women define and claim knowledge, challenging feminist analyses that have identified a single or universal mode of knowing for women. Contends that women speak to complex gender, racial, and class relations of power that shape how they think about learning and knowing. (Author/SLM)

Examines the personal and interpersonal struggles that arise when differences among women in knowledge, class, and sexuality become visible in the feminist classroom. Suggests that a hierarchical mode of conceptualizing and responding to these differences typically emerges. Offers suggestions for changing this pattern of response. (SLM)

Discussion of the future of educational technology focuses on an organizational analysis of the scenarios presented in the articles in this issue. Categories of organizational dynamics include the environment; goals, including values and objectives; structures, including authority and finance; methods, or technologies; and personnel issues,…