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Tian, Dexin; Chao, Chin-Chung – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2010
This article explores the communication model and nature of change in terms of deforestation in China since 1949. Through Lasswell's communication model and the theory of change and via historical analysis and extended literature review, we have discovered: First, Mao's government adopted an effective one-way top-down communication model with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Communication Skills, Models
Mehrmohammadi, Mahmoud – Online Submission, 2005
Needs assessment has been regarded as a critical stage in the curriculum development process. However, theoretical efforts aiming at proper formulation of this stage are disappointingly rare in the curriculum literature. This article is based on the recognition of this fact and proposes a multilevel conception of needs assessment in the curriculum…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Power Structure
Dailey, Nancy – Training and Development Journal, 1984
The author argues that most work environments still conform to a hierarchical, bureaucratic pattern--an outdated system. She urges a move to a more andragogical model. The author discusses bureaucratic structure, organizational culture, the influence of leadership, the quality of learning at the workplace, and the employer-employee relationship.…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Bureaucracy
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Dye, Linda; Bing, Robert – Educational Record, 1990
How a college governs itself has the potential for building consensus among faculty, administrators, students, and trustees, but hierarchical governance works against positive collegiality in a scholarly community. A model developed by Sherry Arnstein involving levels of citizen participation in urban planning can be adapted to describe governance…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, College Faculty, College Students
Caldwell, William E.; Daywalt, Ralph E. – 1983
Two private-sector models of organizational conflict that are appropriate and adaptable to the public sector are the bargaining and bureaucratic models. While the bargaining model covers conflicts among interest groups in competition for scarce resources, the bureaucratic model covers superior-subordinate conflicts. In the public education sector,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Collective Bargaining, Conflict
Dunlap, Diane M.; Goldman, Paul – 1990
An alternative conceptualization of organizational power is proposed. Power as a "system of facilitation," in contrast to power as a "system of authority" is explored and related to educational administration practices. The educational trends of clinical supervision and individualized programming within special education are analyzed to illustrate…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers), Collegiality