Attempts to analyze the realities of current practice in spatial arrangement of ordinary infants' schools and to discuss some aspects of their boundary maintenance. Based on observations made and conversations and interviews conducted in 27 schools in four outer London boroughs. (Author/EA)

Highlights the major themesrunning through a series of papers on the remaking of the elementary school principalship: the way things are, the way they are changing, and the way they are supposed to be. (WM)

Paper delivered at a meeting of professors of higher education held in conjunction with, but not as an official part of, the National Conference of the American Association for Higher Education (Chicago, March 1969).

Adapted version of paper read at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 1968.

In the public school governance structure that evolved between 1900 and 1920, schools were removed from the world of politics, authority was concentrated at the top of the hierarchy, and boards of education were reorganized, resulting in less participation by working-class people. Teachers had little power. Teacher political activities after this…

IN ITS ELEVENTH REPORT THE CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS' STANDING COMMITTEE ON BROADCASTING, FILMS AND ASSISTANCE TO THE ARTS STATES ITS POSITION VIS-A-VIS THE WHITE PAPER ON BROADCASTING REFERRED TO IT IN NOVEMBER 1966. IT PROPOSES TO INTRODUCE NEW LEGISLATION ON THE GENERAL LINES SET OUT IN THE PAPER. IT LISTS THE ORGANIZATIONS AND PERSONS WHO…

THIS STUDY IN ORGANIZATIONAL INTERACTION ANALYZES THE STRUCTURAL TIES AND INTERACTIVE RELATIONSHIPS OF AN EDUCATIONAL SUB-ORGANIZATION (EVENING DEGREE PROGRAM) AND ITS PARENT COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION (BROOKLYN COLLEGE). AN EXAMINATION OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, CORRESPONDENCE, POLICY STATEMENTS, AND MANY INTERVIEWS, QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS, AND…

This paper describes a study which had a twofold purpose. The first was to determine which methods of influence were used by teachers to control pupils who exhibited various types of disruptive misbehavior. The second purpose of this study was to determine why teachers chose those specific methods of control. Influence was considered from the…

It has been increasingly evident that significant numbers of students are profoundly dissatisfied with the status quo, on as well as off the campus, and many of them are ready to use force and violence to change it. In some instances student activists want more participation in decision making, and in others they seek complete control. The…

The Special Committee of the Trustees of Columbia University was appointed "to study and recommend changes in the basic structure of the University." The second interim report contains recommendations of the Committee on the participation of faculty and students in university governance through a proposed University Senate that would replace the…

This paper identifies salient features of scholarship and statesmanship that are required to bring about constructive momentum from the ferment in which today's teacher educators are operating. After brief comments on the nature of the ferment found in the general environment, the ferment in teacher education is illustrated through two examples.…

The experience of New York University after the Cambodia-Kent crisis of May 1970 when court action nullified faculty decisions on the taking of exams, and the continuation of classes is indicative of the intrusive constraints derived from external forces on effective faculty self-government. This paper discusses: (1) the natural and intrinsic…

This paper discusses three major statements on shared authority and points out that there appear to be three types: joint participation in decisionmaking, separate jurisdictions, and collective bargaining. Academic senates and campus councils are the major manifestations of the first two types and a brief discussion of the state and their…