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Fender, C. Melissa; Stickney, Lisa T. – Management Teaching Review, 2017
Group and team class decision-making activities often focus on demonstrating that "two heads are better than one." Typically, students solve a problem or complete an assessment individually, then in a group. Generally, the group does better and that is what the students learn. However, if that is all such an activity conveys, then a…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Group Dynamics, Cooperative Learning, Participative Decision Making
Weasel, Lisa H.; Finkel, Liza – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2016
Deliberative democracy, a consensus model of decision making, has been used in real-life policy making involving controversial, science-related issues to increase citizen participation and engagement. Here, we describe a pedagogical approach based on this model implemented in a large, lecture-based, nonmajors introductory biology course at an…
Descriptors: Biology, College Students, Nonmajors, Active Learning
Hampton, Greg – Higher Education Review, 2013
A rapprochement between managerialism and collegialism has become commonplace within policy discussion on governance within higher education. Processes of deliberation within university governance are suggested as one means of fostering this apparent accord. I suggest that Dryzek's notion of meta-consensus can assist processes of deliberative…
Descriptors: Governance, Group Unity, Higher Education, Discourse Analysis
Lee, Ginny V. – Journal of Staff Development, 2009
School-based learning depends on teachers' capacity to engage with each other around central issues of teaching and learning. While such collaboration is readily welcomed by some educators, others remain wedded to an "independent contractor" concept of teaching. Supporting teachers to view themselves as team members and to perform effectively as a…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Professional Autonomy, Group Dynamics, Transformative Learning
Nelson, Denise Cabrero – Camping Magazine, 2000
Describes how camp counselors can foster camaraderie among campers through participative decision making, name games, listening, adventure courses, storytelling, spending time in nature, decorating cabins, avoiding favoritism, setting rules, admitting faults, setting group goals, and praising sincere efforts. (TD)
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Group Dynamics, Group Unity, Leadership
Myran, Gunder; Myran, Steven; Galant, Richard – Community College Journal, 2004
Community college leaders commonly think of community college leadership in terms of rationality, expertise, power, negotiations, and legalisms rather than the more human, loving, symbolic, and transcendent dimensions of their work. Yet the giving of oneself to a common cause, to a higher calling, is the most important role community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Leadership, Religious Factors, Beliefs

Logan, Tessa – Young Children, 1998
Describes a kindergarten teacher's successful efforts to create more heterogeneous groupings and less animosity among students in her class. Discusses efforts to encourage after-school visiting among peers, classroom agreements about put-downs and exclusion during play, turn-taking, teacher-assigned grouping, conflict management, efforts to…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Conflict Resolution, Friendship, Group Unity

McClurg, Lois Gail – Young Children, 1998
Describes "community meetings" in early childhood classrooms, designed to create an intentional community devoted to learning to live with and consider the perspectives of others. Discusses how meetings work, community meeting and the topic of exclusion, students' learning about themselves, awareness as a kind of solution, airing a…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Community, Discussion
Harris, LaDonna; And Others – Native Americas, 1996
The Tribal Issues Management System was adopted in 1990 by the Comanche tribe to end internal conflict and promote participative decision making by the tribal community. Such a return to community- and tribal-wide inclusive consideration of public concerns results in action, restores trust and harmonious relations, and recreates feelings of…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Community Relations
Thompson, Paul H.; And Others – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1994
Weber State University (Utah) has successfully implemented shared decision making and governance between faculty and administration. Critical elements were communication, faculty involvement, and trust. Two major decisions and their outcomes are compared. One was made without faculty input and the other was made with the new shared decision-making…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, College Faculty, College Presidents
McBride, Ron E.; Stuessy, Carol – Education Canada, 1996
Accelerated schools strive to bring at-risk students into the educational mainstream and perform at grade level through acceleration rather than remediation. Describes four steps to initiate the accelerated process and how a Texas middle school involved all members of the school community in implementing the first two steps, taking stock and…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning, Group Unity
American Association of School Administrators, Arlington, VA. – 1990
Empowerment is based on the viewpoint that power shared is power multiplied. It contributes to increased school effectiveness by providing people with the opportunity and necessary resources to understand and change their world. The interactive processes by which people empower each other and benefit from them are discussed in this report.…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Group Unity, Intergroup Relations, Leadership Responsibility