The article discusses the role of middle managers in an independent school setting and their relation to school heads. It suggests 14 principles of operation to meet the needs of school middle managers and to help clarify the role of the educational middle manager. (SB)

The events and statements surrounding the execution of Gary Gilmore are depicted as rhetorically appealing because they embody the symbolic form of power vs powerlessness. Gilmore defeated symbols of the powerful by strategically co-opting two bases of power, physical force and moral force. Warns of the dangers of rhetorical drama. (JMF)

Power in the university is seen as the academic division of labor that creates a number of self-sufficient units responsible for the production of academic work. Two kinds of reforms in higher education, efficiency and participation by disenfranchised groups, have affected the power structure of higher education institutions. (Author/MLW)

Summarizes the themes of a conference sponsored by the Association of Canadian Community Colleges and by the Society of the Publication Critere, Inc., during which the individual's right to action and decision beyond the control of professional groups was examined within the framework of law, politics, and the arts and sciences. (JP)

It is reported that research on the socioeconomic achievement process has begun to generate anomalous findings, many of which involve occupational status as conventionally measured. The author proposes a theory of vertical occupational differentiation based on the role activities of occupational incumbents. (Author/RLV)

In an attempt to analyze systematically where power is and why it accumulates where it does, this study identifies how a voluntary consortium in higher education perceives the power systems in the institutional hierarchy. (MB)

Explores the growing concentration of ownership and control over the National Information Infrastructure (NII). Examines efforts of copyright owners to extend their control over information and cultural products into new media markets. Discusses the commercialization of the NII, and points out concentration, commodification, and commercialization…

Critiques four studies of morality and culture from the point of view of domain theory, based on distinctions between morality and social construal, domains of judgment (moral, social conventional, and personal), and perspectives within the social and power structure. (Author)

Drawing on several specific incidents of media misinterpretation or imbalanced reporting of information about higher education, particularly concerning faculty, the author examines how journalists can interpret and influence the balance of power on campuses. Issues discussed include presidential searches, campus employment patterns, and faculty…

Challenges teachers to explore teacher talk and distinguish messages that unwittingly encourage dependence on authority from those that support the growth of academic autonomy through discovering relationships, developing speed and accuracy in skills, and developing understandings that serve problem solving in projects and activities. (MKR)

Results of confirmatory factor analysis of data from 5 samples (308 financial professionals, 578 employees, 588 management students, 728 employees in South Korea, and 250 employees in Bangladesh) support the convergent and discriminant validities of subscales of the Leader Power Inventory (M. A. Rahim, 1988). (SLD)

Education may be viewed as at threat to the prevailing power structure although it is essential to the structure's reproduction and development. Reflective learning is essential to the reproduction of existing socioeconomic relations, yet at the same time it represents a potential catalyst for radical change. (SK)

Reviews the following books; "Resisting Linguistic Imperialism in English Teaching" by A. Suresh Canagarajah; "Rights to Language: Equity, Power, and Education" by Robert Phillipson; and "Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction" by Alastair Pennycook. Each book is appraised and an attempt is made to draw connections between them.…

Addresses the Singlish-standard English debate in terms of discourse resources and the politics of language planning in Singapore, especially for the Singlish speaker. Examines media reports, official statements, and letters to local newspapers and considers the implications of this debate for Singaporeans and their participation within society.…

Explores how domination was created, enacted, and maintained in the acquisition of Ozark Airlines by TWA. Uses the concepts of resources, hegemony, and resistance from the functionalist, Marxist, and postmodern traditions, respectively, to understand power-as-domination as a complex communication process. Reveals how communication practices were…