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Hart, Ann Weaver – American Educational Research Journal, 1990
Work redesign to facilitate teacher empowerment was studied in a year-long comparative case study in two junior-high schools implementing a career-ladder program. Journals of 6 teacher leaders (TLs), 23 teachers, and 3 teacher-specialists; TLs' and novice teachers' midyear surveys; and 61 classroom observations by TLs and principals were analyzed.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Career Ladders, Case Studies, Job Satisfaction

Johnston, Ron J.; Taylor, Peter J. – Geographical Education, 1987
Presents a model of the world as an interdependent whole dominated by two conflicts: (1) the North-South economic conflict between developed and underdeveloped nations; and (2) the East-West ideological conflict between two superpowers and their allies. Intended to serve as a theoretical basis for objectives and content selection in geography…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Developed Nations

Rau, William; Baker, Paul J. – Teaching Sociology, 1989
Examines the organized contradictions linked to the simultaneous bureaucratization and professionalization of academe that restrict excellence in undergraduate instruction. Presents a general systems model that points out the need for a coordinated set of changes which, if institutionalized, could lead to an academic revolution. Responses by Lee…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, College Environment, College Faculty, Economic Factors

McLaughlin, H. James – Teaching Education, 1994
Paper examines how one teacher conceived of classroom authority during three phases of his educational experience (student teaching, graduate school, and university teaching), suggesting that teacher educators must incorporate serious discussions about the nature of authority in the same way that K-12 teachers ought to question how they enact…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction, Discipline

Buchanan, Holly Shipp – Library Trends, 1993
Discusses progress made in meeting the information needs of health care administrators and the role of the library in providing information for administrative decision making. Highlights include health care economics; a shifting power structure; quality improvement initiatives; standards; communicating the role and value of library services; and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Communication (Thought Transfer), Decision Making, Futures (of Society)

Mehl, Deborah; Pendlebury, Shirley – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1991
Describes a Critical Language Awareness course developed in South Africa to open the minds of prospective teachers. Discusses how language may coerce people into accepting as given practices that can be changed. Emphasizes the relationship between language and power and the role of textbooks and official language in reinforcing the status quo of…
Descriptors: Apartheid, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Giroux, Henry A. – Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies, 1990
The dominant discourses of modernity have rarely addressed race and ethnicity as part of a theory of difference and democratic struggle. A postmodern discourse of resistance must develop a cultural politics and antiracist pedagogy. The work of Black feminists and writers can rewrite the relations between power and difference. (SLD)
Descriptors: Authors, Blacks, Cultural Awareness, Educational Change

Casement, William – Perspectives on Political Science, 1991
Argues that the study of Great Books need not be a politically conservative enterprise. Suggests that such a program be extended to offering the best education to all and the teaching of critical thinking. Urges that non-Western works be included as well as the best of women and minority writers. (DK)
Descriptors: Authors, Critical Thinking, Cultural Context, Dogmatism

Lee, Susan – Journal of Library Administration, 1993
Stresses the need for research libraries to develop conscious, explicit processes for organizational change through an understanding of organizational development. Internal restructuring, parallel organization for problem solving and guiding change, organizational culture and organizational politics, strategic organizational change, training, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change Strategies, Futures (of Society), Higher Education

Dewar, Margaret E.; Isaac, Claudia B. – Journal of Planning Education and Research, 1998
The University of Michigan's Detroit Community Outreach Partnership Center fields student-faculty teams who work on community-development projects with community organizations. Projects are designed to enrich students' experiential learning and build communities' organizational capacity. The relationship has exposed a culture clash between…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Community Development, Culture Conflict

McCourtie, Lena – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
Focuses on acquisition of English by speakers of Jamaican Creole. Examines historical data drawn from reports from the colonial period and highlights the systemic failure of pupils to acquire English. Discusses a recent investigation of secondary schools in postcolonial Jamaica, which finds a similar cycle of underachievement among Creole…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Colonialism, Creoles, Elementary Secondary Education

Reay, Diane; Ball, Stephen – Educational Management & Administration, 2000
Argues that gendered identities are in context more fluid and shifting than depicted in feminist leadership texts, drawing on a small case study of female (British) headteachers. Femininities are varied and shaped by the roles women undertake, the leadership context, and the amount of power women have access to. (Contains 65 references.) (MLH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Context Effect, Elementary Secondary Education, Femininity

Gunawardena, Charlotte N.; Nolla, Ana C.; Wilson, Penne L.; Lopez-Islas, Jose R.; Ramirez-Angel, Noemi; Megchun-Alpizar, Rosa M. – Distance Education, 2001
Describes a study that used survey and focus group data to examine differences in perception of online group process and development between college students in Mexico and the United States. Discusses language, power distance, gender differences, collectivist versus individualist tendencies, conflict, social presence, time frame, and technical…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Focus Groups

Pizarro, Marc – Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, 1997
A study examined the role of different arenas of identity in the formation of overall social identities by Chicana/o students. Surveys and interviews with over 150 Chicana/o high school and college students showed that those areas in which social difference and a lack of power became apparent crystallized their identities. (TD)
Descriptors: College Students, Ethnicity, High School Students, High Schools
Rocco, Tonette S.; Gallagher, Suzanne J. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2004
Educators of urban adults should attempt to deconstruct the dynamics in the classroom that replicate the social, political, and economic discourse of the dominant group. We must work to surface the complexity of diverse experiences represented by multiple oppressed groups.
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Justice, Social Discrimination, Urban Education