For 17 practical nurses, client advocacy was not their primary role. However, the nurse-patient relationship was a salient feature of advocacy. Work environment barriers and physician attitudes hindered involvement in advocacy. (SK)

Criticizes a previous article's assumptions that globalization is a policy option that may be chosen or rejected by professionals, that acceptance of globalization undermines possibilities for improving existing inequities and that comparative education professionals are completely qualified to establish educational policy for the poor and…

Examines the conception of autonomy promoted by four educational philosophers to justify education prescriptions, focusing on the extent to which they succumb to the charge that they describe persons free of any social connections and encumbrances. The paper suggests that to the extent that these conceptions are vulnerable to this charge, they are…

Summarizes strategies and techniques of effective bargaining that will empower the negotiator in virtually any bargaining situation, whether personal or collective. Sources of bargaining power and their applicability to particular negotiations are described, with emphasis on librarians as negotiators. (CLB)

The author discusses events, charges, and studies related to national park policy and administration and attempts to bring them into a unified focus through a public policy framework. Attention is centered on the natural-area parks of the western United States. (CH)

This study examined leadership in 16 research and 16 nonresearch teams in various manufacturing, aerospace, and health services companies. It concluded that research team leaders need to be able to fulfill a public relations or boundary management role. Engineering research teams, however, showed leadership patterns suggesting different needs for…

Argues that student publication advisors should continue building a body of knowledge, establishing ethical and performance standards, and insisting on advisor autonomy from school administrators. (RS)

Proposes alternative, empowering view of empowerment as a paradigm that increases behavior potential of people, both individually and in organizations. Behavior potential is defined as totality of behaviors available to a person. It is argued that an individual is empowered in possessing a repertoire of behaviors and in being able to express and…

The relationships between autonomy and a set of attitudinal, professional participation, and reasons-for-leaving-teaching variables were studied for 770 urban teachers in Florida. Results suggest that job satisfaction and a perceived lighter paperwork load are predictors of autonomy, as are insufficient rewards for outstanding performance and lack…

Reviews three books that argue that the teaching profession is being deprofessionalized by the demands and policies of "neoliberal globalizers." Discusses the nature of hope in these global times and its role in developing alternative proposals to the current process of intensification of teachers' work. (SV)

School leaders will never have an easy job, especially those who sit in the principal's chair. Yet identifying site needs, establishing priorities, and devoting the bulk of one's time to these priorities enables principals to more effectively take control of their day. It can be hard to deal with what is important instead of what is urgent, but…

This study positioned the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2002 as a reified colonizing entity, inscribing its hegemonic authority upon the professional identity and work of school principals within their school communities of practice. Pressure on educators and students intensifies each year as the benchmark for Adequate Yearly Progress…

A graduate student in a language program finds himself running out of reasons to write. He has been gaining a power of words but has been losing something at the same time, some autonomy or sense of community, of place, of being "somebody." Having spent several years teaching in a public high school, he returned to the university to…

A review of the nature of educational reforms over the years provides evidence that education reform is a recurrent issue, and that the aims and focus of reforms also tend to be cyclical. Two characteristics of reform--programmatic and systemic--are identified, and it is pointed out that the major focus of previous reform cycles has been on…

Although the terms autonomy and advocacy have proliferated in nursing literature and in nursing curricula over the past decade, the degree to which registered nurses claim these dimensions in their practices and in their thinking has remained unknown. A study was conducted to determine the relationship between nurses' self-concepts and their…