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Meskill, Victor P.; McTague, Michael J. – Business Officer, 1995
Factors in organizational climate and structure that enhance innovation include need to respond to emerging market trends and discomfort with the status quo. Inhibitors include negative language used regarding new ideas and lack of strategic organizational direction. As in industry, higher education can use these to involve employees in change:…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Creativity, Employer Employee Relationship
Peer reviewedMehl, 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
