Data indicate that controllers do not have the same authority in all their functions nor in the various decisions within those functions. (Author)

Muses on the power and intelligence of Henry Giroux as a composition theorist and pedagogue. Recounts Giroux's presentation at the 1993 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition and his categorizing of the "power dynamics" present at most institutions. Opts for "expressivist" pedagogy. (PA)

Examines why language planners in the Philippines argue the way they do concerning critical language issues in the country. Suggests discursive "strategies of forgetting" are employed across complex structures of relations shaped by decades of colonialization, Filipino elite collaboration, and current neocolonial and global conditions.…

The case of the American Bar Association's Commission on Professionalism illustrates that issues of regulation and professionalism have broad impact on practitioners. In associations with diverse memberships, such issues become highly political and limit decision making. (SK)

The author of "Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought" reflects on the challenges that currently affect the construct's usefulness: the changing meanings of the term "outsider within" and how the changing meanings work with current marketplace ideologies. (JOW)

Discussion of the relevance of Michel Foucault's ideas in the provision of services to people with mental retardation focuses on the postmodernist thinker's own life including his preoccupation with "limit experiences," transgression against all societal norms, suicide, and death from AIDS. It suggests that the application of discourse…

Conceptualizes the learning organization as a metaphor, given the centrality of narrative in human endeavors. Reinterprets the learning organization using narrative theory and social theory. (Contains 52 references.) (SK)

Profiles seven women who have succeeded in their chosen field by breaking the rules and ignoring the conventional wisdom about getting ahead on their way to the top. (JOW)

Examines similarities, differences, limitations, and possibilities of critical pedagogy, feminist pedagogy, and multicultural adult education. Considers how postmodern thought has influenced these discourses. Suggests that a strategic postmodernist lens of analysis might produce equitable pedagogy. (Contains 61 references.) (SK)

Rereads the concept of hegemony "against the grain" of interpretations currently dominant in communication studies, generally, and in critical organizational communication studies specifically. Argues that the received reading of hegemony as domination through consent has lead to a bifurcation of critical studies into two models of…

The increasing emphasis on participation in education offers the starting point for this paper. Participation appears to be a strategic notion in a particular problematisation of education: this is installed through certain ways of speaking and writing (discourse) and through certain procedures, instruments and techniques that are proposed and…

Institutional racism remains a difficult and nebulous practice to analyse. This is due, in part, to the sophisticated and complex discriminatory mechanisms that operate through and between institutions. Furthermore, this is affected by the inequity that is experienced by both those who are employed and those who are serviced by the organisation.…

This paper comments on the articles by Cheng and by Novick and Cheng. It has been claimed that the power PC theory reconciles regularity and power theories of causal judgment by showing how contingency information is used for inferences about unobservable causal powers. Under the causal powers theory causal relations are understood as generative…

This study examines the breakdown of professional and personal communication and relationship through the lens of cultural differences. The case is based on the experience of two female adult educators--an American and a Saudi--working within continuing education at a private women's college in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Graduates of the same U.S.…

In this article we are concerned with how young women's subjectivities are constructed within relations of power, particularly in the context of schooling and the transition to adulthood. We focus on the possibilities and limitations for agency to be exercised by women in the education system and more generally, the resources that they can draw…