Ways in which the campus leader can enhance followers' skills and his own followership effectiveness are drawn from recommendations made for industry. They include teaching specific followership skills, delegating to the lowest level, using small task forces, providing feedback, and rewarding good followership. (MSE)

Four studies are discussed, showing that micropolitics evolve within a complicated, contradictory, dynamic, and interwoven world. The methodology of micropolitics must be examined via more appropriate means than those used in the studies critiqued. An approach committed to a direct effect on the practice of education is recommended. (RLC)

A Canadian regional job creation program was found to place women in jobs that further marginalized them in the work force. The process reinforces the status quo in terms of dominant and subordinate groups in the power structure. (SK)

The explicit theoretical frame in which topic transitions have been described and the types of transitions are discussed, based on a study of 12 physician-patient encounters. Reciprocal and unilateral activities are identified that relate to allocation of power. (34 references) (Author/LB)

New social movements--ecological, peace, feminist, and personal autonomy--share several basic principles: ecology, social responsibility, grass-roots democracy, and nonviolence. The realization of their visions may require the greatest mobilization of imagination and learning potential yet known. (SK)

Examines how relations of power are privileged or marginalized by ethnographers. Discusses how ethnography is judged by and subsumed within the ideological practices of academia. (SR)

The college administration should use some simple procedures to manage a consultation actively, improving the likelihood of success. Issues to be addressed include focused administrative responsibility for the consultation, communication, information availability, campus constituency involvement, need identification, confidentiality, private and…

Examines the concept, implications, and dilemmas of school restructuring, whose meanings are confusing and complex. Restructuring can be synonymous with top-down reform or ruthless retrenchment or can signify redefined power relationships in classrooms, staff rooms, and schooling communities. This paper identifies four restructuring dilemmas…

Examines how power can be a primary determinant of how communication acts are structured. Considers how power affects business memos written by managers to subordinates. Outlines three rhetorical strategies reflecting power in managerial communications. (HB)

Describes how one English teacher, through the study of philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, created a classroom in which teacher authority was earned through expert knowledge. Argues that reading should be presented as a kind of conversation. Discusses class activities concerning Toni Morrison's novel, "Sula." (HB)

English as a foreign language (EFL) is seen by some as a tool for perpetuation of economic and cultural inequality, although this inequality is a result of monopoly capitalism. EFL can be used by marginalized people to challenge the effects of the global economy; labor education can play a role in this. (SK)

Offers a review of literature on the construct of dominance from sociobiological, psychological, and interpersonal perspectives. Advances a broader conceptualization of dominance that focuses on dominance as an interpersonal communication construct. Reports two alternative measurement strategies and initial validational work on undergraduate…

Offers a broad survey of the ways the World Wide Web has changed power relationships between academic authors and publishers. Argues that the emerging innovative methods of text distribution and attribution are challenging the way knowledge itself is produced and distributed within particular disciplines. Retheorizes the relationship between…

Suggests that cultural-studies pedagogy is one way to introduce students to the interaction of narratives within themselves and between themselves and their contexts. Explores reflections on multiple subjectivity from postcolonial feminist theorists. Explores, from the intersection of feminist postcolonial studies and cultural-studies composition…

Offers a case study describing how the rhetorical expertise of a young woman (at the lowest professional level in a male-dominated bureaucratic organization) gave her the power to revise the processes by which her organization did its work, to rewrite the job descriptions of the managers within the organization, and to create a unique role for…