The political processes involved in an academic program evaluation are discussed. Data gathered from a program evaluation conducted at a small, public, liberal arts university in the Southeast were used in examining the explanatory power of the various theories and models. (Author/MLW)

Contemporary theories of organizations are assessed to determine whether their propositions and empirical findings can be directly applied to understand and explain voluntary associations. The inquiry is arranged under five types of characteristics: incentive systems and participant commitment, formal structures, leadership and authority,…

Examined similarity in the behavior tendencies of subordinates and their supervisors. Respondents were 66 department heads and branch managers in an Israeli banking organization. The overall pattern of results largely supported the applicability of Social Learning Theory to organizational modeling. (JAC)

Discusses the school social worker's conscious use of self in the daily political processes of the school system. The effective worker must identify influential people within and outside the school system and plan strategic interactions and responses to help students gain maximum benefit from their education. (JAC)

The limitations of the particular communicative situation in the foreign language classroom, in which students spend much of their time silent while the teacher speaks, need to be recognized before applying new teaching techniques. The profession must find new ways to promote the need, the desire, and the pleasure of communicating. (MSE)

The interplay of power, political behavior, and ethics has been the subject of many books and articles about business organizations, but little has been published about using power and political skills in ethical ways to lead whole-system change in school districts. This book does. Readers will learn about the context for change in school…

The concept of the principal as the sole instructional leader of a school is quickly changing. Substantial evidence from schools with successful instructional programs indicate this responsibility has been spread among many staff members. Teachers who have been trained in the functions of leadership, instruction, and student learning are becoming…

This books aims to change the way the reader views radical literacy education, offering a personal look at the Freirean ideas that guided an educator's early years of teaching, and the theories and classroom experiences that urged her to take a second look. Through her own experience, the author demonstrated the power of sustained dialogue between…

This study examined the differences in family closeness and power structure between first semester college freshmen and upperclassmen. Fifty-two freshmen and fifty-four upperclassmen completed the Family Systems Test (Gehring & Feldman, 1988) to indicate the closeness and power structure in their immediate families. Aspen-Welch t-tests were used…

This paper discusses the misuse of power among boards of education, central office and building administrators, teachers, and the media. It describes several cases: members of a board of education who hired a family member; an assistant superintendent who, out of jealousy, organized a smear campaign against a new principal; a high school principal…

Client change in therapy is a result of the psychological impact of counselor's remarks on the client. Impelling forces arise from the power-dependence relationship between the counselor and client. Restraining forces are resistance and opposition. Sources and characteristics of power, resistance, and opposition are presented. (Author/LA)

Explores environmental conditions, including formal aspects of political structure and the climate of governmental responsiveness, which are associated with the incidence of political protest activities directed toward urban institutions in American cities. Suggests that the incidence of protest is related to the nature of the political…

Discusses the new Appalachian movement, based on the assumption that mountain people are a distinct and maligned cultural minority; the people of Appalachia, white, black and red, have begun to strike back against the dam-builders, strip-miners, and others they say are gouging out the region's mineral resources by the cheapest means possible no…

A number of testable propositions are developed which relate the variables of compliance, mobility, and size to motivation for clique formation and to constraints within which cliques form. Five clique types are discussed. (Author/JN)

The white professional researcher is held responsible for the creation and refinement of the social conditioning techniques employed to establish and maintain dependent and acquiescent behavior in black people; dominant emphasis placed on why blacks permit whites to do what they do.'' (Author/JM)