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Massialas, Byron G. – Social Studies, 1990
Analyzes how schools and social studies teachers can best teach citizenship education to help student involvement. Contends that programs which empower students through participation in classroom and school decision making and through involvement in local government affairs should replace passive seatwork. Describes a Florida State University…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Classroom Environment, Community Action, Conflict Resolution

Holcomb, Edie L. – Journal of Staff Development, 1995
The National Center for Effective Schools worked to translate knowledge gained from research on effective schools, educational change, and organization development into a professional development program that builds the capacity of teachers, administrators, parents, and community members who are committed to making schools more effective. The…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Effective Schools Research

Bottery, Mike – Oxford Review of Education, 1990
Contends policies that develop personal autonomy and honor children's right to participate in school organization and curricular decisions teach democratic values and citizenship. Encourages active teacher intervention, suggesting children's limits reflect teacher expectations and lack of opportunity. Notes two studies where children have…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum Development, Decision Making Skills

Latshaw, Jessica L. K. – Canadian Journal of Education, 1991
Student responses to Canadian realistic fiction for young adults were examined for four seventh grade girls and three seventh grade boys. Interview findings support the view that students should have a role in selecting what they read, should talk about reading informally, and should construct representations less influenced by teacher responses.…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Females, Fiction, Foreign Countries

Housego, Billie E. J. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1999
Interviews and surveys of 13 teachers and staff and 213 students from four successful Canadian "outreach schools" found that the characteristics of alternative education that contribute to its success are volunteerism, small size, egalitarianism, a caring attitude, participatory decision making, organizational flexibility, individualized…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Innovation, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries

Sherman, Ann – Educational Management & Administration, 2000
Examines 21 female administrators' accounts of their experience in a rural Nova Scotia school district. Presents preliminary findings of these women's own responses, resistances, and initiatives while attempting to legitimize and implement their preferred leadership styles, which stressed relationships, instructional leadership, communication, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Mulford, Bill; Kendall, Lawrie; Kendall, Diana – Journal of Educational Administration, 2004
This article explores the relationship between teachers perceptions of administrative practice in high schools and students perceptions of the school, teachers and their own performance. It was found that where decision making is perceived by teachers as collegial, collaborative, co-operative and consultative and providing adequate opportunities…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, School Attitudes
Addison-Jacobson, Jill; Addison, Joy – 1995
This paper explores the implications of an effort to promote service learning in two middle schools in the Palo Alto (California) Unified School District. The schools are grades six through eight with about 1,000 students in each. The paper describes seven service efforts and then analyzes the costs and benefits of these projects. The study…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement, Community Relations
McKerrow, Kelly – 1996
This paper presents a critical qualitative account and analysis of resistance and contestation over the decision-making process in a special education program. The parties involved were four parent advocates, who formed an advocacy organization, and the school administration in a rural school district in the Midwest. A subtle but powerful bias…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Advocacy, Boards of Education
Bulach, Clete; And Others – 1997
A plan was developed to improve test scores in a Georgia high school. A committee of teachers, students, citizens, and a curriculum consultant was formed to analyze the school's problems and the reason for low test scores and low achievement. Data on the school climate indicated that it was poor, except that the instructional leadership of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Attendance, Cooperative Learning
deGive, Marilyn L. – 1996
This case study of a higher education policy-making process tested a conceptual model based on a combination of political systems, behavioral power, and influence theories. The study, which followed the course and outcomes of a branch campus policy formulated in Washington state over a four-year period (1985-89), sought to show that the ability of…
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Behavior Theories, Community Action, Community Involvement
Middleton, Ernest J., Ed.; And Others – 1990
These conference proceedings provide an introduction to strategies and models for the recruitment and retention of minority teachers. Many of the programs described in this document demonstrate networking and partnerships, with team building between local school districts, state and local associations, universities, and community groups to enhance…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns
Ancess, Jacqueline; Darling-Hammond, Linda – 1994
International High School, New York (New York) is a secondary school for students who have been in the United States less than 4 years and who score below the 20th percentile on an English language proficiency test. The 310 students of 1988 came from 37 nations, and spoke 32 languages. An evaluation conducted in the 1991-92 school year indicates…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cooperative Education, Cultural Awareness, Educational Change
Bloom, Evan; Reed, Sue – 1991
Intended for community development professionals and volunteers who work with preliterate communities, this illustrated handbook accompanies a library of visual aids that allow rural people to formulate their own projects. (The curriculum, called Pictorial Apprenticeship, transfers the process of project design into visual forms that literate and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Community Development, Community Involvement
Massachusetts Career Development Inst., Springfield. – 1998
This booklet is one of six texts from a workplace literacy curriculum designed to assist learners in facing the increased demands of the workplace. The booklet contains seven sections that cover the following topics: (1) meaning of total quality management (TQM); (2) the customer; (3) the organization's culture; (4) comparison of management…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Decision Making, Employer Employee Relationship, Management Teams