This special edition honors the life and work of Paulo Freire by recalling the impact he had and continues to have on educators and students. Articles in this issue are: (1) "Editor's Introduction" (Tom Wilson); (2) "Nita's Elegy to Paulo Freire (in Portuguese) 'Privilegio, Pobreza e Poder'" (Ana Maria Araujo "Nita"…

The book addresses a number of pressing issues: how race, culture, power, and language affect actual classrooms and pedagogies; the social processes and school structures that can either hinder or support student learning; and the extent to which teachers have--or should have--control over their day-to-day instructional practices and decisions…

An analysis which attempts to link all three of the sources of conflict in schools, which appear to reside in three overlapping arenas: the goals and functions of public schools, the nature of the roles that are defined by these functions, and the manner or style in which these roles are played out. (Author/JM)

Focuses on the efforts made in the decade of the 1960's to improve processes of social choice, so that the economic market could be improved or replaced by satisfactory political arrangements. (Author/JM)

Deals with some problems in the operation of a school in a white middle-class Chicago community and the attempt by a segment of the community to influence the direction of their school. (Author/JM)

Paper presented at the 68th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1972; focuses on the interrelationship of urban structures of dominance, alternative value or meaning systems, and social control. (JM)

Discusses how the minority school administrator should go about defining his role in the social and power structure of an integrated school, emphasizing that if he defines his role as that of minority expert'' then he is assigning himself a very peripheral position with respect to decision-making. (JM)

Issues discussed are (1) American Involvement with Southern Africa, (2) White Minority Rule, (3) Liberation Movements, (4) Role of International and Nongovernmental Organizations, and (5) the Future. (JB)

Develops a conceptual framework which views the school as a subsystem of both the local community and of the larger society." (Author)

Warns that successful transplantation of the British teacher center idea to America may involve a redistribution of power within the traditional educational structure. (Author/JH)

Current interest in control of schools is a struggle for economic influence rather than genuine educational concerns, and in urban areas is generally a struggle between black and whites. A systems approach, claims author, is an alternative for sharing control and responsibility. (DS)

Data on the health of employees, if the communication gap is closed between managers and occupational health experts, can be used to improve management's effectiveness. (AG)

The impingement of the colliding trends toward accountability and collective bargaining on formal administrative authority and informal teacher control within schools will result in a dual authority structure Argues this proposition through an analysis of existing control patterns and speculates on ramifications of the emerging structure. (Related…

The examination of a city in Texas provided data for the support of the thesis that an increase in vertical ties contributes to the development of a pluralistic power structure within a community; the traditional power relations and supporting normative patterns within the isolated minority community serve to inhibit competitive political…

A shift in the concentration of power for education decision making from church to state is taking place, with the image of the Christian mission as a humanitarian and civilizing agency changing to that of an intruding and obtrusive alien organization. (JM)