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Riehl, Richard J. – College and University, 2010
The author once was a student in a graduate seminar taught by the president of the university where he was a mid-level administrator. The course focused on what it takes to be the chief executive of a university. The university president was the only one of the ten presidents under whom the author served who embraced the role of a college…
Descriptors: Self Concept, College Presidents, Administrators, College Administration
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Radford, Mike – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2006
There is a persisting tendency in attempts to define spirituality, to adopt a dualistic point of view which sees the spirit as somehow impenetrably inner, innate and introspectively perceived, interacting with the outer world through the body. As well as a strong intuitive sense of the correctness of this philosophical point of view, it also is…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Hermeneutics
Knoop, Robert – Education Canada, 1995
Examines three major reasons why individuals shirk responsibility: feelings of powerlessness (external locus of control), belief in a systems world (society as self-regulating balance of objective forces), and consequences of extreme introversion or extraversion. Discusses the role of education in fostering development of student attitudes and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Elementary Secondary Education, Extraversion Introversion, Individual Power