Increasingly, budget pressures and rapid technological change are causing colleges to consider "outsourcing" for computer operations management, particularly for administrative purposes. Supporters see the trend as similar to hiring experts for other, ancillary services. Critics fear loss of control of the institution's vital computer systems.…

Explores the nature and possible consequences of benign and detrimental aspects of defamiliarization occurring in Northern Ireland's schools. Recent legislation, although apparently sharing power, centralizes power by providing for curricular form and content, promoting a certain management ethic, and relocating some key control mechanisms in the…

This paper explores the origins, differences, and similarities of community-based rehabilitation, which developed in southern countries, and independent living, which developed in northern countries, for persons with disabilities. Although both approaches share a broad definition of rehabilitation and values emphasizing community and consumer…

Argues that Benesch's charge that pragmatism in English for academic purposes (EAP) indicates an accommodationist ideology and an endorsement of current power relations in academia and society is ideologically motivated. Benesch responds by arguing that those who ignore questions of power participate in maintaining the low status of EAP students…

Focuses on the intellectual character of academic librarianship and defines the concept of librarians' programmatic responsibilities. These responsibilities are by definition undelegatable and constitute an exclusive locus of power within the profession. The role of librarians should be determined by these exclusive responsibilities, not by…

Inquires about the moral dimensions of high school students' understanding of two films' representations of the past. The film "Dances with Wolves" was viewed as a transparent window on the 19th-century West, but no moral frame was examined. "The Searchers" was viewed as a deeply flawed product of the 1950s. (GLR)

Examines the process through which a high school principal learned to share power. The principal and teachers grappled with issues of shared governance, choice, and responsibility. Teacher and principal interviews indicated teacher empowerment and collegiality occurred as the principal enforced his vision of instructional improvement through…

A critical interpretation of transformational leadership, based on postmodern assumptions of democracy, examines ways to reconceive the idea of leadership by placing it into practical terms (thus advancing democracy). A case study of a small, private liberal arts college highlights the theoretical underpinnings of critical leadership. (SM)

The need for a micropolitical reference frame in educational research is critiqued. The six articles discussed illustrate the stratified structure of statuses in school organization that have the character of a caste society as their defining polity feature or essential governance attribute. (RLC)

Presents evidence of the demise of Libertarianism in the U.S. mass media system and proposes an "elite power group" model as an alternative explanation of the working of the mass media in the United States. (MG)

Paule Marshall focuses on the web of relations that constitute humanity. Women characters are central to this novel. Although race may affect what they do, it does not stop them from trying to do it. How race and class affect power exercised by women is discussed. (SLD)

Reviews "Preparing School Administrators for Democratic Authority" by Richard A. Quantz et al. Proposes adding to the curriculum a critique of the underlying assumptions and structures that constitute the American social order. Describes some ways in which graduates can network and find support to maintain their critical perspective.…

Reviews eight European histories by Dorothy O. Helly, Ed., and Susan M. Reverby, Ed. (1992); Joy Wiltenburg (1992); Margaret L. King (1991); Joan DeJean (1991); Jacques Gelis (1991); Barbara Duden (1991); Jane Lewis (1991); and Sheila Rowbotham (1989). This sampling shows women's historians use an interdisciplinary approach and consistently deal…

One dominant approach to reforming science education implements collaborative approaches to learning. Feminist pedagogy is concerned with transforming both how students learn science and the science curriculum that students are expected to learn. Collaborative approaches serve to reproduce the dominant discourse of existing science systems.…

Demonstrates, for a nonscience feminist educator, ways in which science and science education can be arenas for liberatory pedagogical practices where socioeconomic power relations can be challenged. The evolution and practice of scientific knowledge itself operates to exploit and oppress people everywhere in the name of a dominant class. (PVD)