Outlines the failure of traditional staff development programs and theorizes that the crucial issue in staff development concerns the problem of educational authority: Who makes what decisions and how? Successful models for staff development programs should have personal, organizational, and political foci. (JMF)

The impeachment of a high school student council president highlights issues involved in an adolescent confrontation with adult authority. The school administration representing the adult majority tended to stereotype the council president as representing the rebellious, irresponsible adolescent minority. Adults in authority need to learn to play…

Examples are cited to support the argument that structures and spaces, especially public buildings and spaces, establish and reaffirm hierarchies of values for society. These buildings and spaces define both goals and people as important or as expendable, and win support for the values of those groups that are already powerful. (JMD)

An experimental method for teaching about power in groups, using an adaptation of the Tavistock method, is described. Course assumptions, methods, goals, and evaluation are discussed. (JMF)

A holding technique in which the parent as change agent holds the child without punitive or stimulating action was found on followup to be an effective, rapid, and decisive measure for young children and their parents whose basic problem was parental failure to assume authority roles within the family. (Author)

This study of organizational structure, administrative structure, and governance of colleges of arts and sciences at five major universities summarizes the issues involved and identifies some common concepts and arrangements. From the information obtained it seems unlikely that a single organizational structure exists or could be designed to serve…

The role of housing officers in Great Britain is examined in view of changing circumstances and economic conditions. Results of a questionnaire survey indicate that residential planning has been characterized by a series of ad hoc and fragmented decisions and that housing officers occupy a low position in the administrative hierarchy. (LBH)

Experiences at a junior high school in the ghetto are recounted by a former teacher there to illustrate how the principalship became the focus of a highly personalized power system. (GW)

Concludes that the real challenge to social scientists in this administration, and any other, is not how to relate effectively and get more funds from the executive branch, but how to relate more effectively as teachers and learners in the political process--with the American people and their elected representatives in Congress. (Author/JM)

Data on 115 colleges and universities show the effect of the qualifications of the faculty and decentralization of authority on faculty influence over general educational policy and faculty appointments. Findings suggest that highly qualified faculties have more influence via formal decision-making bodies. (Author/LBH)

The current unrest with teachers is at least a partial consequence of the "fact" that increased levels of teacher commitment and competence have not been matched by corresponding increases in responsibility, adjustment in the pattern of authority, and the distribution of power. (Author/IRT)

Explores different ways of perceiving phenomena in micro-spaces that are essential to the understanding of reality. Specifically, analyzes the various manifestations of power within micro and macro spaces. Also discusses micro-macro relationships from a holistic perspective, and looks at problems of grass roots communities in their search for…

This working paper focuses on the educational planner as a bureaucratic actor. To explain planner influence or lack of influence in the policymaking process, practitioners need to explore the micropolitics of organizations and understand individual, organizational, and situational forces demanding their engagement. Planners need an engaged…

Racial and power dynamics that may affect supervisory relationships are examined. An exploratory study of cross-cultural field supervisory dyads revealed that although field instructors and students have experienced few actual problems, they identify many potential areas of concern. (Author/MH)

Concludes that the content of Farsi-language papers reflected the changing power structure in Iran during the revolution more than did the English-language papers. (FL)