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Boloz, Sigmund A.; Foster, Carl G. – Journal of American Indian Education, 1980
Explains the effect of present-day educational changes on principals, the "line managers" of educational institutions. Describes concepts of leadership and techniques for effective leadership and community-school relations, including inservice programs, delegation of authority, and direction. Notes methods and techniques for getting the…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Communication (Thought Transfer), Decision Making

Caldwell, Lynton K. – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1996
Maintains that in the future the state will have to move beyond the politics of particular advantage (individual and group rights) to politics serving the general advantage (environmental concerns, economic development). Argues that current politics are dangerously outmoded in everything from their theoretical assumptions to data collecting. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Ecology, Economic Development, Environment

Tappan, Mark B.; Brown, Lyn Mikel – Journal of Moral Education, 1996
Contends that traditional moral education's lack of critical perspective has resulted in its unwitting perpetuation of the status quo. Proposes adopting a critical postmodern approach addressing the fundamental interrelationship between language and power. Recommends sharing knowledge, power, and ideas between teachers and students. (MJP)
Descriptors: Activism, Critical Thinking, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy

Archer, J. Clark; And Others – Journal of Geography, 1997
Describes a study where college students studying political geography ranked the geopolitical importance of 55 countries of the world with populations of at least 15 million. The students consistently emphasized the importance of Western Europe, Russia, China, and Japan over less developed countries. (MJP)
Descriptors: College Students, Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Educational Trends

Couture, Jean-Claude – Canadian Social Studies, 1997
Asserts that social studies often emphasizes abstract concepts illustrated with obscure historical references. Argues that the introduction of feminist issues of social justice, exploitation, violence, and power can galvanize many of the central issues of social studies. Considers the use of language and how it restricts and validates certain…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Civics, Consciousness Raising

Stevens, David P.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1996
Issues and difficulties in the management of formal affiliations between medical schools and managed health-care organizations are discussed, based on the experience of the Case Western Reserve University (Ohio) medical school and the Henry Ford Health System. Difficulties include differing institutional cultures, departmental authority over…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Change Strategies, Competition, Curriculum Design

Chase, Geoffrey – Journal of Education, 1990
Discusses a female student's senior project linking women's difficulty using academic discourse with the roles they are expected to play in a male-dominated society. Explores the risk involved in her resistance to the dominant discourse, the role played by her professor, and the place of resistance in the larger educational process. (CJS)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Academic Education, College Seniors, Discourse Analysis

Fox, Tom – Journal of Education, 1990
Describes the deficit theories and skills approaches shaping how teachers, administrators, and students conceive of basic writers. Critiques research on cultural conflict in the classroom and the theory that students must be initiated into academic discourse. Explores John Ogbu's "oppositional culture" theory to better understand basic…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Basic Writing, Blacks, Compensatory Education

Brook, Diane L. – Social Education, 1997
Profiles the process of South Africa's transformation into a democracy. Outlines the many characteristics of the transition from white to majority rule, such as the attempt to achieve catharsis and bury the apartheid past through a process of amnesty and reconciliation. Describes the remaining obstacles to that transition. (MJP)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Apartheid, Civil Rights

LePage, Pamela; Boudreau, Sharon; Maier, Stacy; Robinson, John; Cox, Heather – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2001
Explored relationships between school and college faculty, in the context of graduate school and as colleagues collaborating to improve children's education. Data from dialogic inquiry, interviews, and surveys indicated that the collaborative, reciprocal process of struggling to understand inconsistencies created as they worked to transform…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Corbett, Mike – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2000
Reviews an ethnographic analysis of Teach for America, a 1990 educational reform program that illustrates how underlying assumptions about "marginal" urban and rural students and their "deficient" environments solidify existing power structures, acculturate students to middle-class norms, generate resistance to teachers, and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Book Reviews, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Change

Tirri, Kirsi; Puolimatka, Tapio – Journal of Education for Teaching, 2000
Data from interviews with Finnish secondary school teachers and students and student essays that examined teacher authority and moral dilemmas indicated that the most problematic conflicts related to teacher-determined punishment. Teachers used manipulative means to control classroom life. Their education had not prepared them to handle situations…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Ethics, Foreign Countries
Schneiderman, Janet U. – Journal of School Nursing, 2004
This qualitative study of school nurses describes what the nurses want to do for school children in foster care, what they are actually doing, and how the school organization affects the provision of care. The study looked at the nurses' practice through the lens of the Social Ecological Model of Health, identified interventions using the…
Descriptors: Health Needs, School Nurses, Public Health, Political Power
Madden, Margaret E. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2005
Literature on gender, higher education administration, and leadership is reviewed using the framework of five principles derived from feminist psychology (Worell & Johnson, 1997): (a) sociocultural context influences leadership situations, (b) power dynamics impact sociocultural structures, (c) people are active agents of coping and…
Descriptors: Sex, Leadership, Higher Education, Feminism
Walton, Gerald – Journal of School Violence, 2005
The issue of bullying features prominently in educational administration, academic research, journalism, and public discourse. In this paper, I present a critical examination of research on bullying by addressing dominant themes and preoccupations in the literature. I argue that the proliferation of policies and programs purported to reduce…
Descriptors: Violence, Bullying, Educational Administration, Antisocial Behavior