Analyzes higher education among the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel. Traces the main trends since the establishment of the state of Israel and examines the principal factors that have retarded the access of Arabs to higher education. Explores the relationship between higher education and cultural dominance and the prospects for…

Offers guidelines for white people on listening to people of color speak about their experiences of race. Asserts that: (1) today's society is situated within troubled forms of power, and it is in that context that most stories of race are spoken, and (2) today's society is laced with dehumanizing notions of pathology, and it is in that context…

Confirmatory factor analysis results for the measures of interpersonal power developed by T. R. Hinkin and C. A. Schriesheim (1989) are reported. A five-factor oblique model provided the best fit to the data in independent samples of 480 and 241 adults. Factor pattern coefficients are discussed. (SLD)

Drawing from psychologist Eric Fromm's work, this article confronts the relationship between individualism on one hand, and the ability for individuals to think collectively and transform social structures on the other. States that in this context, atomization becomes a dimension of both fascism and capitalism, one that positions freedom as the…

Locates the success or failure of language revitalization programs in a framework of solidarity and power. Focuses on the implementation of the language revitalization program within language-in-education planning. (Author/VWL)

An inductive content analysis approach was used to examine 155 dress-related newspaper articles following the Columbine High School shootings in 1999. Analysis revealed two dress-related responses: (1) other-imposed regulation to protect students and deter them from expressing hatred and (2) self-designed acts of resistance for grieving. (Contains…

Understanding facilitative aspects of power is necessary for analyzing processes and outcomes in today's schools. Facilitative, interactive power has become commonplace when no single individual or role commands decision-making control without dependence on expert knowledge and collegial cooperation. Examples include individualized educational…

Developed and tested normative-resource model of parent-adolescent power dynamics in stepfamilies using White, middle-class, suburban family sample (N=87). Identified patterns of power relationships for both major and everyday decisions and normative or resource variables associated with either greater parental or greater adolescent power. Results…

Explores the evolution and concept of strategic information management and focuses on the organizational and human implications of the information-based organization. Areas discussed include information valuation, the evolution of information systems, changing views of organizational structures, knowledge workers, and motivations toward strategic…

Finds that lower teaching assistant (TA) argumentativeness is positively associated with student affective learning and vice versa and that lower TA argumentativeness is associated with higher levels of power use and vice versa. Suggests that, although high argumentative TAs may be "social specialists" in power use, their high levels of…

Explores the multiple and heterogeneous deployment of the Other within discourses that intersect and contest each other. Shows how the 19th century discourse of "le femme orientale," which informed the Romantic critique of capitalism, was recuperated in a hegemonic manner to promote an expanding consumer culture. Discusses the colonial…

Students with learning disabilities (n=88) and without (n=84) were interviewed about 10 scenarios in which a teenager was caught after participating in misconduct. Students with learning disabilities were more likely to suggest escaping and less likely to suggest accepting the consequences. (Author/DB)

Analyzes the communicative activities of a project team in a large corporation in the computer industry, exploring the relationship of written text and authority. Discusses how written text is used in a number of specific ways to maintain group authority. (SR)

Case studies of six extension agents and four extension program developers show that three types of factors constrain or enable planning: organizational structure and culture, available resources, and power relationships. Planning is affected in terms of needs addressed and processes used; personal and organizational interests of adult educators…

Cunningham views codes of ethics as inappropriate because they help those in or working toward positions of power and inhibit change. Sork and Welock identify benefits of developing a code and consequences of not having one. (SK)