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Bozkus, Kivanc – Online Submission, 2014
Social system perspective which belongs to systems theory has been elaborated comprehensively using its founders' ideas, and characteristics of schools have been explained consulting to this perspective. The course of social system idea has been reviewed along with its relation to other systems. How researchers who assumes schools as social…
Descriptors: Schools, Social Systems, Systems Approach, Models
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Rymarz, Richard – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2011
This paper proposes a new model for Catholic educational institutions in secular culture. This model is premised on the reality that secular cultures place considerable challenges before religiously-affiliated colleges and universities. Following Hunter's concept of cultural change, this paper proposes that the best way for religious institutions…
Descriptors: Catholics, Religious Education, Church Related Colleges, Social Structure
Suleiman, Mahmoud – Online Submission, 2014
School systems across the world are facing a plethora of global changes that dictate rethinking instructional practices and professional leadership roles. School reformers are constantly facing the challenges dictated by the universal culture that exerts a huge power on learning and teaching, and leading. This article introduces a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Equal Education, Leadership Role, Educational Change
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Lang, LingLing; Irby, Beverly J.; Brown, Genevieve – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2012
For more than 2000 years, Confucian teaching has had tremendous influence on the history, politics, economy, and culture of East Asian countries and regions. Despite the rapid growth in gross domestic product (GDP), people's standard of living, and economic advancements, Confucian Asia continues to adhere to the Confucian cultural values that they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Models, Cultural Differences
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DeHart, Florence E. – 1976
Jacob Fried and Paul Molnar developed a model to simulate the interaction between technological change and social interaction which consists of two zones: (1) task requisites; and (2) the corresponding organizational responses. To define task requisites for library collections, it is necessary to identify the dimensions of the problem and the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Library Administration, Library Collections, Library Technical Processes
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Light, John M.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1996
Suggests that the heterogeneity of human personality characteristics increases with age. Examines reasons for this phenomenon in terms of individual differentiation, social structure/allocation, and behavioral genetics. Develops a model synthesizing various study designs that prevent variation and covariation errors from occurring in life course…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Behavior, Genetics, Gerontology
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Kuftinec, Sonja; Alon, Chen – Research in Drama Education, 2007
This article details how a unique educational project conducted through Tel Aviv University's Community Theatre program tackled the complex dynamics of the prison-political system over nine months in 2005-2006. The program focused on theatrical facilitations between mainly female students and male prisoners - two more or less homogeneous groups…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Correctional Institutions, Heterogeneous Grouping, Foreign Countries
Kline, William A. – 1979
This paper describes an experimental teacher education program organized in terms of the "social process model," a theory of educational interaction that stresses: 1) the ecology of social environments; 2) the rules and roles involved in given social episodes; and 3) the status of social episodes as interpersonal games. Classrooms are…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Research, Experimental Programs, Game Theory
Hurrelmann, Klaus – 1984
A general frame of reference for a comprehensive model of socialization is presented. This model considers different levels of theoretical analysis and a methodological combination of investigations of the "objective" social reality with "subjective" interpretations of reality as it is in the Federal Republic of Germany. The…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Educational Psychology, Foreign Countries
Red Horse, John G.; Red Horse, Yvonne A. – 1981
A program for adolescent American Indian girls, under the auspices of the Social Work Division of the Minneapolis Public Schools, evolved to become a linkage model between human services and American Indian families, focusing upon interrelationships among structure, behavior, and cultural pattern maintenance. Growth and development among Indian…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Cultural Context