Proposes four defining conditions for undoable phenomena and applies them to power, examining the foundation of its inevitability and looking for a lever to unhinge its constructions. Suggests, with four procedural steps, how power may be contested, rearticulated, and undone. Explains the distinction between power and force, and demonstrates the…

Suggests that writing teachers who believe that their role as authority and expert inhibits their students' empowerment as writers, and who deliberately shun that role, are in the process significantly affecting the way they are perceived professionally, both by clients and by peers. (RS)

Explores parallels found by comparing descriptions of the technical communicator with differing views of the communication process--the transmission, translation, and articulation views of communication. Argues from the standpoint of the articulation view for a new conception of the technical communicator as author and of technical communication…

Two strands of feminist pedagogy are (1) the liberatory model, which examines structured power relations and systems of oppression, and (2) the gender model, dealing with women's socialization as nurturers. Adult education teaching strategies and learning environments may be based on aspects of these two models. (SK)

Analysis of data on 1,605 civil-service jobs supports a power-based perspective on male-female wage differentials, rather than the "compensating differentials" explanation. Unfavorable working conditions were distributed equally in male- and female-dominated jobs and were not compensated by wage premiums. Contains 72 references. (SV)

An empirical study of lawyer-client interactions in one practice context illustrates the way lawyers respond to client problems and raises questions about the exercise of professional authority. It is concluded that law schools' failure to train lawyers to be sensitive and responsive has important consequences for the legal profession. (MSE)

Traditionally conceived, mentoring has a male orientation that ignores women's experience as "same" and "other" in academia and the problems of men mentoring women and of women mentors socializing mentees into acceptance of the patriarchal system. An alternative view values women's unique position and critiques existing power structures. (SK)

Proposes alternative, empowering view of empowerment as a paradigm that increases behavior potential of people, both individually and in organizations. Behavior potential is defined as totality of behaviors available to a person. It is argued that an individual is empowered in possessing a repertoire of behaviors and in being able to express and…

An instrumental/technocratic approach to evaluation of social development relies on primarily quantitative methods. An interpretive approach resists claims to legitimacy and authority of "experts" and questions existing interpretations. The latter approach is characterized by cultural relativism and subjectivity. (SK)

Reviews the interconnection of economic, political, and legal structures and their implications for adult education in a global context. Describes adult education's role in alleviating poverty and powerlessness and spurring social transformation by advocating equitable distribution of resources, equal educational opportunity, and peace. (SK)

A discussion of the concept of professional practice for higher education institutions draws on organizational theory to examine the nature of higher education institutions, the use of power and influence, and the administrator's role. Some aspects of administrative practice requiring administrative attention include organizational instruments,…

Etiquette serves as a defense of the social order while hiding that purpose from its beneficiaries. Although people believe their manners guarantee integrity, politically "innocent" powerful people are often unintentionally offensive to people of a different class, ethnicity, or gender. (SK)

Calls for language education to be retheorized to make it serve education for democracy. Highlights the relationship of language and power. Suggests that progressive language educators' theories-in-practice may well just be a kinder, gentler way to maintain those systems of dominance that keep democracy as far away as ever. (RS)

Investigated the motivation of Dutch adolescents to obey authorities, noting authority relations between parents and adolescents and between adolescents and professional authorities at child welfare agencies. Interview data indicated that adolescents attributed twice as much authority to parents as to child welfare supervisors. Teens and…

Academic feminists must confront class structure within the academy and women's studies. Changes in the academic work environment include: funding cuts, rapid growth of non-tenure-track faculty, and overproduction of Ph.D.s relative to jobs available (which exemplifies the class structure of academic feminists). Education is a social institution,…