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Moscovici, Hedy – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2003
Various major publications such as the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) and the collection of research results regarding the use of inquiry methodology in the teaching and learning of science edited by Minstrell & van Zee (2000) recommend that science should be taught in the same way that it is…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Science Teachers, Teaching Conditions, Secondary School Science
Busher, Hugh – Open University Press, 2006
This book shows how school leaders at all levels "from the most senior manager to the classroom teacher" can help to build learning communities through collaborating and negotiating with their colleagues, students and students' parents and carers, as well as with external agencies and local communities, to sustain and develop the…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Leadership, Inclusive Schools
Phillips, Angela – 1994
Written for parents, this book discusses the socialization of boys into men. The book takes the perspective that socialization should not lead to an exclusive and rigid masculinization. The books is divided into 5 sections, discussing: (1) the need for power as it affects boys and men; (2) the development of boys and the unseen messages provided…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Employment, Father Attitudes
Kahn, Peter H., Jr.; Friedman, Batya – 1993
Educational computing based on the primacy of human agency is explored, considering ways in which power can be apportioned and exercised in order to enhance educational computing. Ideas about power and control are situated epistemologically. A first consideration is educating for human control of computer technology. Research suggests that…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Centers, Computer Science Education
Jimerson, Lorna – 1998
This study examined how eight rural, high-impact Minnesota school districts (defined as those losing or gaining a high percentage of student population due to school-choice implementation in fiscal year 1995) responded to school choice policy. Data from semistructured interviews with each district's superintendent were sorted and analyzed. In each…
Descriptors: Accountability, Class Size, Competition, Cost Effectiveness
Nelson, Linda, Ed.; Williams, Judith, Ed. – 1990
The seven narratives in this document were drawn from the reflective writings of administrators of color involved in the Nevada Project LEAD. Six school principals and one district administrator describe experiences they have encountered in managing ethnically and racially diverse elementary and secondary schools in Nevada. The first and last…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Blacks, Conflict Resolution
Greer, John T. – 1983
This paper discusses problems the author encountered in attempting to conduct a study of teacher motivation as influenced by a combination of participative decision-making and financial rewards. Over a 3-year period, teacher motivation was to be viewed as influenced by two independent variables--participative decision-making and financial rewards;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrators, Analysis of Covariance, Compensation (Remuneration)
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Nelson, Fiona – Across the Disciplines, 2004
It is the authors first day of class in a new tenure-track position. She is a sociologist who had been hired to teach Women's Studies at the University of Calgary, where she completed her master's degree some years before. At 9:00 a.m. she boarded the elevator in the basement of the building. The elevator stops on the main floor and the doors open…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Studies, War, Terrorism
Clark, Todd, Ed. – 1981
A packet of game materials, designed to help young people better understand what the law is, what the police officer's duties are, and what pressures and fears the police officers experience daily, is presented. The game, designed for a group of 20 to 35 students, contains: Teacher's Manual, Attitude Survey Master, Observer Evaluation Master,…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Crime, Due Process
Hurn, Christopher J.; Burn, Barbara B. – 1982
This comparative evaluation of the differing educational systems in North America, Europe, the USSR, and Japan examines the goals and values of these systems. It is pointed out that Americans value equality, practicality, and utility and that they are both individualistic and suspicious of government authority. Contrasts between these values and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Communism, Comparative Education
Williams, Martha – 1982
The way that socialization, via role modeling, can be enhanced in professional education is discussed, and 10 class assignments are used to illustrate teaching methods for enhancing role modeling, based on a course on women in administration at The University of Texas at Austin. Among the objectives of the course assignments are the following: to…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Business Administration Education, Careers, Case Studies
Hoffnung, Robert J. – 1982
The view of education as a liberating, enlightening, individuating process and educational approaches to support this goal are examined. According to Ivan Illich (1970), the social relations within the educational encounter have corresponded closely to the social relations of dominance, subordination, and motivation in the economic sphere. He…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Environment, College Faculty, College Instruction
Washington State Temporary Advisory Council on Public Higher Education, Olympia. – 1969
Washington State's Temporary Advisory Council on Public Higher Education was established in 1965 to advise the legislature and the governor on the need for additional institutions to meet higher education demand. In this report, the council's history and actions are outlined and its recommendations are summarized for eight areas: establishment of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), College Planning
Zoglin, Mary Lou – 1976
This book systematically considers governance in the community college, focusing on how decisions are actually made and describing the roles and interactions of all participant groups in the governance process. Community college governance today is an amalgam of procedures borrowed from colleges, universities and high schools, but there are signs…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Collective Bargaining, Community Colleges
Berlowitz, Marvin J. – 1977
A critical analysis and interpretation of "The Sorting Machine" by Joel H. Spring is presented. The book, which uses a historical revisionist approach to trace the development and impact of the corporate-government-foundation network on the ideological orientation of the American educational system, makes its greatest contribution by…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Bias, Book Reviews, Educational History
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