This paper demonstrates the utility of community development skills, tactics, and strategies within the workplace. The case study addresses the process of uniting the division between the direct care staff and administration in a human service organization through the use of the participatory process. (Author)

Presents a model for the selection of instructional leaders, based on the need to provide continuity and change, as well as competence and compassion in curriculum development. Suggests that leadership can best be provided by a central curriculum council, composed of members reflecting each aspect of the continuity/change-competence/compassion…

Large schools have a tall organizational structure with long chains of command and limited control for "low-level" staff, including teachers and principals. To resolve this problem, two alternative structures are suggested: a dual structure involving spheres of administrative and professional responsibility and a flat structure featuring…

This article is about education, citizenship, and democracy; the role of research in corrections education; the corrections and education paradigms and the trust/democratic anomaly pattern; specific cognitive processes that have been associated with learning in correctional education democratic communities; and the relationship between those…

The challenge for human resource development managers is to design an environment that makes the most of productive people rather than perpetuating the factory system of work. (JOW)

By using numerous techniques, a school can maintain a first-rate staff year after year. The ability to replace competent teachers with new personnel who are equally as competent, or have the potential to be, must be ranked at the top of the list. Here's how one school accomplishes it. (CJH)

Examines the use of corporal punishment and contends that a more democratic educational system demand its abolition. States that two essentials of democratic education are a caring atmosphere and a true spirit of reconciliation. Outlines assertion techniques that enhance conflict resolution. (BSR)

Discusses the use of quality circles within the college library. Defines a quality circle; examines the history, philosophy, characteristics, and objectives of quality circles; discusses the relationship of quality circles with library management; and explains their creation, implementation, benefits and limitations. (DMM)

The effects of different group processes on team performance is examined using a formative evaluation. A taxonomy of six different decision-making and leadership styles is developed. Cohesion was found to be a significant factor in explaining high performance. (Author/BL)

A methods course which allowed students to choose authoritarian, autonomous, or democratic approaches to learning is described and evaluated. Outcomes from both the learners' and the tutor's viewpoint are given. (Author/MT)

This article illustrates the contradictions between the collaborative paradigm and the real world by analyzing a recent experience in a collaborative curriculum inquiry. (MT)

Nominal group technique is a small group decision-making process for problem identification and resolution. Used with 55 elementary school teachers in a study funded by five National Education Association affiliates to identify significant job stressors, the method appears to be a meaningful way to involve teachers in defining their perceived…

Analyzes the importance of staff development (broadly defined as anything that enables teachers to learn) and considers different development structures. Describes the role and duties of staff developer at a Cambridge, Massachusetts, elementary school as well as its "teacher teams," groups of instructors who meet monthly to discuss…

An example shows how a group of professionals and citizens can select a feasible site for a facility by rank ordering criteria of availability, population, accessibility, and cost. (MLF)

Discusses collaborative action research, a method by which teachers can update their curricula together. The authors give examples of how this method could work. Also, they suggest how this concept can be broadly applied to working with groups external to the school. (CT)