Compares the educational and philosophical theories of John Dewey and Paulo Friere, articulating how each deals with two key relationships: action to reflection and individual to society. Their theories of experiential learning largely overlap, but they depart on the larger ideological purposes of education, with Freire more inviting of critical…

Focuses on how women in the educational network surrounding the British and Foreign School Society Ladies Committee used constitutional, familial, religious, and educational languages to claim an authoritative role for themselves in the development of education for non-Western women and girls. (CMK)

Examines school psychologist and teacher perceptions of the effectiveness of 11 bases of social power that psychologists might use with initially resistant teachers. Results suggest that both groups rated expert and informational power as the most effective bases, ranked the 11 power bases in a similar way, and indicated that psychologists would…

Examines the nature of non-decision-making, its empirical operationalization, and practical realization in the school sector. Studies on decision-making fail to consider an integral element: the conscious or unconscious decision to exclude certain areas from formal decision locations and relevant decision makers. Implications are discussed.…

Discusses the career paths of several black and other college presidents, focusing on how they rebounded from firings or forced resignations. Considers political and other issues that particularly affect minority presidents of community and private colleges, as well as the importance of the fit between institution and president. (DB)

Describes the collaboration in a 5th-grade classroom between the author (a teacher educator) and a former student of hers (the 5th-grade teacher). Complicates notions of equity and empowerment in collaborative research by outlining the cycles and shifts they experienced while constantly renegotiating their positions. (SR)

Presents the results from a survey where middle school students discussed women's suffrage that, in turn, demonstrated their views of sexism and power in the United States. Stresses the need for a restructured curriculum that accounts for the historical relationships between men and women in order to dispel these students' stereotyped views. (CMK)

In the last decade, the study of white privilege has reached currency in the educational and social science literature. Concerned with the circuits and meanings of whiteness in everyday life, scholars have exposed the codes of white culture, worldview of the white imaginary, and assumptions of the invisible marker that depends on the racial other…

The paper explores ideological conceptions of management, especially "new managerialism", with particular reference to their role in the reform of higher education. It is suggested that attempts to reform public services in general are political as well as technical, though there is no single unitary ideology of "new managerialism". Whilst some…

This paper reports on qualitative research with 8 board members and 8 directors of women's social action organizations. A poststructural reading of the narrative data gives voice to an undertheorized aspect of humanist relational learning in women's organizations and makes visible the power-relationships. The power relationships are explored and…

This paper examines a qualitative research study which examines the experiences of ten Jamaican and Canadian women engaged in learning via distance in a graduate adult education program. Using a critical feminist perspective, three power issues emerged as topics for discussion that are important for distance educators in higher education to take…

On campuses throughout the United States the issue of shared governance is being hotly debated. The debate over the issue has driven several important questions to the forefront. These include: Just what is shared governance? Should crucial decision making be a joint effort including both faculty members and administrators? Are there certain areas…

The pharmaceutical industry's response to the threat of bioterrorism following 9-11 invoked the rhetorical notion of kairos as an urgent and ongoing opportunity not only to protect the nation but also to improve the industry's reputation and fortify its political power. Yet the notion of kairos as seizing an advantage--grounded in modernist…

Some scholars believe that humankind has inherited a collective responsibility of creating a peaceful new global social reality and to nurture the construction of planetary consciousness. However, a group of realist scholars with a critical disposition toward globalization emerged, and begun analyzing globalization objectively as an empirical…

Democratisation as set out in the constitution of South Africa is based on the ideal of devolving power and authority to community level. Running parallel with the ideal of democratisation and devolution of powers are the imperatives of redress, educational transformation and restructuring, to be managed by central government and provincial…