Focuses on an exploration of an alternative space adjacent to postmodernist work in language rights. There are numerous different positions on language rights. Extends a politicized version of language rights that proposes that these rights are subordinate to the structure of power and domination and that language policy is a form of covert state…

Reviews current research to investigate the way the power and politics of genre is often exploited by the so-called established membership of disciplinary communities to keep outsiders at a safe distance. Argues that the privilege to exploit generic conventions to create new forms becomes available only to those few enjoying a certain degree of…

Explored concepts of leadership, power, and caring in the context of a predominantly Mexican-American community culture, based on extended interviews with six female Mexican-American principals in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. These women were challenged by working as professional educators in a bicultural, male-dominated community. Their insights…

Discussion of the need for library administration to change from traditional methods based on power and competition focuses on the concept of servant-leadership. Explains characteristics of a servant-leader, including being authentic, being present, being vulnerable and choosing appropriate responses, being accepting, and being useful. (LRW)

The nature of villagers' involvement during community theater programs initiated and implemented by some Malawi nongovernmental organizations was analyzed. Findings indicate that, contrary to the purposes of community theater, the productions were planned and remotely controlled from outside the community. (Contains 22 references.) (JOW)

Examines the ways in which literacy functions in institutional encounters and focuses on the ways literacy interacts with power and authority. Examines the enactment of literacy in medical encounters. Finds that institutional encounters enacting the discourse system of American medicine reproduce power and dominance in fairly predictable ways. (TB)

Discusses "partnerships" in child protection as they relate to the families of children subject to these services. Suggests that parents are ignored or deliberately excluded from the process, leading to "learned helplessness." Claims that good intentions of professionals are necessary but insufficient for partnership, which can…

Education is a fundamentally moral enterprise. Educational administration must change to reflect ethics at its core. Traditional educational administration is informed by constructs of power and leadership and has developed knowledge bases on modest theoretical grounds. Together these elements dominate discourse and inhibit the dialog necessary…

This study investigated 4- to 9-year-olds' understanding of social rules and authority by asking them about stories in which the status (adult or child) of rule inventors, transgressors, and changers varied. Findings indicated that children considered children's transgressions and alteration less permissible than adults', and adult-invented…

Summarizes constructivist and poststructuralist approaches to gender discussed in second language (L2) learning and applied key concepts to issues of gender, class, and race in L2 writing and interrelations among them. Suggests that new approaches to gender, class, and race be dialectic in that they should both explore differences between social…

Presents three perspectives on whiteness that have important implications for power in organizations. Offers a textual analysis of diversity management magazine and journal articles. Notes that "interrogating whiteness" works to name, unmask, and de-center whiteness; while "re-centering whiteness" recognizes difference yet ultimately keeps…

Undertakes, from a poststructuralist perspective, a meta-analysis of two short episodes from a paper by Manouchehri and Goodman (2000). Explores how mathematical knowledge and identities are produced in teaching/learning interactions in the classroom and the wider practical implications of this productive power of process for mathematics education…

Examines the impact on composition studies of the fact that in the 1960s the university became a breeding ground for radical culture while simultaneously being complicitous with the normative culture of the bureaucratic state. Suggests that the determination of composition studies to professionalize created an unresolved set of institutional and…

Identifies a set of professional discursive practices of rhetoric teachers that reveal gendered power relations. Proposes an "embodied rhetoric" characterized and authorized in part by specific sorts of personal author- and context-saturated gestures. Concludes that an embodied rhetoric regenders academic discourse, assures agency and power to…

Modern public education is rooted in capitalist interests of turn-of-the-century industrialists and their institutions. The Americanization of cheap immigrant labor and the formation of a passive industrial workforce were that era's dominant sociological concerns. More recently, residential desegregation efforts are hampered by real estate…