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George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA. – 1977
Contents include descriptions of university organization (with organizational charts); faculty roles and responsibilities; the academic departments; policies for appointments, promotions, and tenure, and for compensation and benefits; and other general information about services and facilities. The appendixes contain the charter of the faculty…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Affirmative Action, Codes of Ethics
Mangin, Melinda M. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2005
This study examines how 12 teacher leaders from five school districts negotiate access to classrooms and encourage instructional change in light of teacher resistance. Drawing from observations and interviews, the findings indicate that, in order to gain access to teachers, teacher leaders frequently compromise their instructional improvement…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Change Agents, Instructional Improvement, Resistance to Change
O'Brien, George Dennis – 1998
This book contrasts two models of institutions of higher education in the United States: the faculty-controlled research university and the administration-led traditional college, and offers recommendations for the development of higher education which draw on the strengths of both. In the beginning, American higher education was predominantly…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Administrator Role, College Faculty, College Presidents
Sparks, Barbara – 2001
The political interests and educational orientations that adult education advocates who work on behalf of welfare recipients have about welfare-to-work programs influence the strategies they use to advance poor women's education. Adult Basic Education (ABE) providers face many conflicts as they engage in implementing programs under welfare reform,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Advocacy
Kirkpatrick, Andy, Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers comprises proceedings from the 5th English in South East Asia Conference, held in December 2000 at Curtin University of Technology in Perth. The 19 papers include the following: (1) "Global English and Local Language Policies" (Robert Phillipson); (2) "Hong Kong Parents' Preference for English-Medium…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education
Hansman, Catherine A. – 2001
Informal mentoring is dependent on the relationship developed between mentor and protege, but job needs and task designs within organizations may also define and construct them. The intent is to foster organizational goals and help new employees become acclimated to workplace culture while learning from experienced practitioners. How to choose…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Blacks, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)

McNeely, John H. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1936
The United States Office of Education through its Division of Higher Education has been conducting a series of studies on the general subject of the relation of the State to higher education. Four studies have already been published in bulletin form under the following titles: (1) The State and Higher Education, Phases of Their Relationship; (2)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governing Boards, Public Education, State Surveys

Steinberg, Shirley R.; Kincheloe, Joe L. – International Journal of Social Education, 1996
Illustrates the ways that a cultural studies approach to teacher education can expand the vision of democracy and citizenship. Analyzes the development and subsequent breakdown of the economic foundations of 20th-century life and offers new understandings that can be used to inform a democratically aware teacher education program. (MJP)
Descriptors: American Dream, Capitalism, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility

Apple, Michael W. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1996
Provides an overview of the main theories, developments, and literature of critically-oriented sociology. Pays particular attention to the politics of meaning including critical discourse analysis, identity politics, racial formation, and political economy and the labor process. Concludes with a discussion of the tensions between postmodern and…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Educational Environment

Couture, Jean-Claude – Canadian Social Studies, 1997
Asks the question: To what can teachers realistically expect students to be committed in the field of citizenship education when governments are consistently cutting back on their own involvement in public life? Concludes that principles of community and social justice remain valid and relevant to young people. (MJP)
Descriptors: Alienation, Citizenship Education, Civics, Community
Joseph, Cynthia – Australian Journal of Education, 2005
This paper examines the notion of schooling and draws on the experiences of Malaysian teenage schoolgirls in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia. Using a critical approach to understandings of schooling, the author unpacks the links between the macro, micro and the personal in examining these girls' negotiations with discourses of schooling. The…
Descriptors: Females, Teaching Methods, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
Zaretsky, Lindy – Journal of Educational Administration, 2004
Reports the findings of a qualitative study investigating the interactions relating to special education between principals and parent advocates. Specifically focuses on variations in perspectives among the principals and parent advocates on disability, special education and inclusion. Places a particular emphasis on exploring the perceived power…
Descriptors: Conflict, Parent Participation, Disabilities, Parent School Relationship
Menesini, Ersilia; Fonzi, Ada; Smith, Peter K. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
We compared how teachers and pupils in Italy take into account different dimensions of bullying behaviour, such as intentionality, imbalance of power, repetition and typology of aggression, in relation to bullying behaviours, and investigated the attribution of meaning that teachers and pupils give to a set of terms frequently used to connote this…
Descriptors: Bullying, Aggression, Focus Groups, Cartoons
Pace, Judith L. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2003
This paper examines the dynamics of authority relationships and curriculum enactment in a lower-level, college-preparatory US History class. It explains how a teacher and his students construct a relaxed order shaped by uncertain educational goals, the use of entertainment, and students' wants. Ambiguity and entertainment in the teacher's practise…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Educational Objectives, United States History, High Schools
Kincheloe, Joe L., Ed.; Horn, Raymond A., Jr., Ed. – Praeger, 2007
Cognition, mind, counseling psychology, lesson plans, learning styles, and Vygotsky are just a few of the many subjects discussed in this exciting work. Educators, students, counselors, parents, and others will find new understanding as they read and browse. How does the immigrant experience affect student outcomes? What are the effects of poverty…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Environment, Standardized Tests, School Psychology