This research examines the changes that electronic information technologies have caused on power within organizations, particularly related to library automation, academic libraries, and their positions on college campuses. Based on the strategic contingencies theory of intraorganizational power, a model of organizational power is developed and…

Proposes seven metaphors for teaching under the motif of interpreter that may empower a minister to adopt a self-image as teacher: (1) organic/cooperative; (2) liberator; (3) nurturing hope; (4) colearner; (5) preparer of trials to come; (6) midwife; and (7) teller of stories from the faith. (CMK)

Presents points of agreement with DeVries, Zan, and Hildebrandt: overall educational philosophy, the developmental path from egocentrism to reciprocity, and educational approaches when fundamental ethical principles are at stake. Examines the substantial differences in perspectives regarding the substance of morality, the process of teaching…

Examines how the restructuring of Australia's university system and the introduction of corporate managerialism has changed the work performed by academic staff. Illustrates how there is more regulation of academic work due to the emergence of higher education as an export industry and a vehicle for more competitiveness. Includes references. (CMK)

Assesses strategies employees use to express upward dissent within contemporary organizations. Indicates that employees used direct-factual appeal, repetition, solution presentation, circumvention, and threatening-resignation strategies for expressing upward dissent. Provides support for the exit-voice-loyalty model (and subsequent revisions) of…

Outlines a team-teaching experiment between a director and dramaturg which was linked to a production of Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine." Investigates aesthetic choices, gender identity and sexuality that the play raises. Notes the problems in this arrangement and suggests that engaging in this kind of pedagogical experiment demands much…

Examines how teachers' and students' unacknowledged disciplinary and professional investments shape power dynamics in the classroom. Describes how participants in a study of undergraduate web authoring courses struggled to make their definitions of technological literacy the privileged definitions of the classroom. Questions the potential…

Examines whether nonverbal behavior affects how people perceive a female employee's power base. U.S. undergraduate students read vignettes describing a female employee engaged in three types of nonverbal behavior, then rated their perception of her power base. Reports an increase in student perception of coercive power when direct eye contact was…

Presents a critique of Mildred D. Taylor's "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" with regard to its positioning of the child subject. Proposes that the novel contrasts classic works of children's fiction by following a trajectory of child agency, which is enabled through the novel's racial specificity. Discusses the role of historical…

Examines five issues related to females as mentors in higher education: self-disclosure and personal boundaries, nurturing, female authority, conflict and competition, and hierarchy. Considers these issues central to understanding the difficulties women have in the mentoring process. (SK)

Addresses the lack of progress by Black people and women to reach positions of power and policy influence and the authorities' failure to deliver services that meet the needs of both groups. Discusses issues related to local government in Great Britain. (JOW)

The article examines negative attitudes in academia toward administration noting that most academic administrators actually prefer management to teaching. The university cultural hierarchical mind-set which values teachers over administrators is discussed. Administrators are encouraged to demonstrate clear thinking and competence in faculty…

Studies ways that teachers and principals in South Carolina can influence (fudge) personnel evaluation programs. Discusses the shared nature of power in school organization that permits such practices. (FMW)

Considers several areas in which business communication instructors uphold the institutional norms of male power and why they should question doing so. Analyzes how people (including women) may be unconsciously sexist despite good intentions. Advocates prodding students to think about the relationships between business communication and power. (SR)

Literacy must go beyond reading and writing to become part of the process of empowering marginalized people, especially women. A crusade for women's literacy is both an educational and a political project requiring revision of content and materials so that they are consciously emancipating rather than perpetuating the status quo. (SK)