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Marshall, Catherine; Mitchell, Barbara – 1990
School administrators' uses of subjective understandings and common language to gain and maintain power and predictability in their environments are described. Micropolitical theory, with a focus on language, is utilized to understand administrators' knowledge of the assumptive worlds of their subculture, and how these assumptive worlds constrain…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Assistant Principals
Gross, Janet Finck – 1990
One teacher's experiences in incorporating non-hierarchic learning assumptions and values in the second language classroom, especially through the use of dialogue journals, are reported. In the first part, observations of accuracy-based classroom language teaching are contrasted with the meaning-based acquisition model. Six salient characteristics…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Dialog Journals, Educational Strategies
Naik, Chitra; And Others – 1982
The volume contains two studies from India and Thailand on the education of women, and rural women especially, who are deprived or disadvantaged. The Indian study, "Education of Girls and Women in Deprived Groups," presents a viewpoint on deprivation in society in general, and India specifically. The concomitant of deprivation is defined…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Cultural Background, Developing Nations
Meabon, David; And Others – 1985
The past and current status of the student activity fee is reviewed from the perspectives of the legislature, state agency or state board of control, case law, and institutional trends. The analysis is based upon four national studies, a review of case law, and a campus model for the administration of student activity fees. Various states have…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, College Administration, College Students, Constitutional Law
Spitzberg, Irving J., Jr. – 1981
A case study of the Colleges of the State University of New York at Buffalo is presented to analyze the problem of change in higher education and the role played by a theory of change. A brief sketch of the history of the Colleges from the beginning to the end of the 1970s is presented to provide a context for a discussion of strategy of change.…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrators, Budgeting, Case Studies
Fagbamiye, E. O. – 1981
The extent to which the academic staff in the five oldest Nigerian universities expressed job satisfaction and motivation, in view of the seeming powerlessness of their Governing Councils, was studied. These universities are the University of Nigeria, Ibadan, Ahmadu Bello, Nsukka, and Ife and Lagos. A total of 157 teachers returned usable…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Environment, College Faculty, Educational Facilities
Peterson, Harry L. – 1981
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, a former state teachers college, undertook a major organizational change during the period 1974-1977. The chancellor, new to the position at that time, was faced with two mandates: (1) to "turn around" the institution, then facing retrenchment, and (2) to involve faculty in institutional…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Faculty, College Presidents
Gessaman, Paul H. – 1978
Intended for agency field personnel who assist in local community development (CD) efforts, this publication is the second of three making up an intensive training manual for community development. Using an inservice training approach, this part of the manual contains four instructional units: rationale for CD training, what CD is (CD as process,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Change Agents, Change Strategies
BUMBARGER, CHESTER S.; AND OTHERS – 1967
A PROFESSIONAL STUDY WAS CONTRACTED BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS TO ASSESS THE LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT'S PROGRESS IN MOVING FROM A DUAL TO AN INTEGRATED SCHOOL SYSTEM. AN EVALUATION OF COMMUNITY ATTITUDES AND THE EXTENT OF INFLUENCE GIVEN BY CIVIC LEADERS INDICATED GENERALLY FAVORABLE SUPPORT FOR IMPROVEMENTS ALREADY…
Descriptors: Black Education, Centralization, Community Attitudes, Compensatory Education
Moyer, Frank H. – 1980
This paper examines the policy-making function of the board of education as it is viewed in the educational literature. It begins by looking at several definitions of policy and suggests that policy is a statement of expressed philosophy, value orientation, and general direction. It examines the question of why written policies are necessary and…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Citizen Participation
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Loewenthal, Alfred; Nielsen, Robert – 1976
Questions about the appropriateness and goals of academic collective bargaining and its historical foundations are discussed. It is contended that collective bargaining insures that the principles of academic governance are practiced democratically. European universities had been nurtured for centuries on the medieval tradition of faculty…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, College Governing Councils
Clouse, R. Wilburn – 1977
The role of administrators serving in national centers established by the federal government to encourage and foster research, training, and service is investigated. Two national programs specifically examined in this report are centers for mental retardation research and human development, and university-affiliated training centers. The research…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, Administrators, Comparative Analysis
Hodapp, Leroy C., Ed.; Gore, William J., Ed. – 1968
Educational, medical, and other services in rural areas have been undergoing a consolidation and centralization process to bring about more efficient operation. A research project sponsored by the United Methodist Church was designed to assess the position of the church as a decentralized unit in a small community relative to its leadership…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Migration Patterns
Spanish Curricula Development Center, Miami Beach, FL. – 1975
Unit five of the social science strand for second graders expands the conceptual field of the child from the school to the community. This teacher's guide provides instructional and assessment activities for kits 17-20. Focus, materials and objective for each activity are given in Spanish and English, with teacher instructions in Spanish only.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Culture Conflict
Hepburn, Mary A. – 1973
In Georgia, professional textbook selection for the public schools has been undermined by a small interest group influencing the State Board of Education. Normally textbooks are selected by a professional committee whose recommendations are adopted by the Board. In 1971 "The Americans," edited by Edwin Fenton and recommended by the selection…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education
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