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Leading for Equity and Social Justice: From Rhetoric to Reality
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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
Aging and Heterogeneity: Genetics, Social Structure, and Personality.
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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
School Violence and the Social Organization of High Schools.
Ianni, Francis A. J. – 1978
One of 52 theoretical papers on school crime and its relation to poverty, this chapter, based on the findings of an indepth study of the social organization of the American high school, provides a new, school-specific way of examining the problem of school crime and violence. The study, which made use of field methodology, addressed two basic…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Delinquent Behavior, Educational Environment, High Schools
Comprehensive Socialization Theory in Research on Adolescence and Youth.
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
A Tandem Paper--Class, Schooling, and Production: A Dynamic Model of Occupational Socialization [and] The Radical Economics of Public School Breakdown: A Critique.
Carnoy, Martin; West, E. G. – 1976
This document comprises two papers. The first, by Professor Martin Carnoy of Stanford University, provides a dialectical view of the socialization functions of schooling. In the first part of his paper, Carnoy relates how the dialectical model best explains the historical mechanisms by which the socialization functions of schooling developed, and…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Comparative Analysis, Conceptual Schemes, Economic Factors
The School as a Political System.
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Gillespie, Judith A.; Ehman, Lee H. – 1974
A theoretical framework for mapping school political life is developed which distinguishes elite, bureaucratic, coalitional, and participant types of school political organizations. The framework provides tools for analyzing and comparing patterns of political behavior within and across school political behavior settings. Definitions and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Change Strategies, Decision Making, Educational Change
THE MASS MEDIA AS AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.
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GANS, HERBERT J. – 1967
THE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROVIDED BY BOTH THE MASS MEDIA AND THE SCHOOLS SHOULD BE ANALYZED. THIS RESEARCH WOULD CONCENTRATE ON NETWORK TELEVISION AND THE URBAN AND SUBURBAN LOWER MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS AND COMPARE THEIR SUCCESS AS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. THE ANALYSIS COULD COMPARE THE STRUCTURES OF THESE INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS AND…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, American Culture, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences