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Download full textIannaccone, Laurence – 1977
We are, for the second time in a hundred years, experiencing a revolution in the politics of education. In the 1890s municipal reform wrested control of urban school systems from city political machines and their neighborhood subunits. Since then the structure of school government has rested on two types of legitimacy. These are a belief in…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Involvement, Decision Making, Education
Campbell, Alan K. – 1971
This report discusses various differences of opinion about the interrelationship that exists between governmental structure and the substantive policy outcomes of governmental decisionmaking. The views of political scientists and educators regarding the ideal structural relationship between education and government are presented. Some aspects of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Centralization, Decentralization, Decision Making
Wirt, Frederick M., Ed. – 1971
This compilation of symposium papers on community power structure research focuses on the theme that community power structure research must shift away from case study methods and move toward aggregate data analysis. Advocating comparative analysis, seven authors present their views under the following topics: (1) Charles R. Adrian, "Several Loose…
Descriptors: City Government, Community, Community Action, Community Influence
Khanlian, John F.; Wallin, Katherine L. – 1975
This material provides a program to instruct secondary level students in the political, governmental, and legal process and to encourage active student participation in these processes. Part of a year-long curriculum program, this unit examines the structure and function of the state, county, and local levels. Included are policy formation,…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Curriculum Guides, Decision Making, Government Role
Collier, David – 1966
The systems analysis of political life might be used as a basis for teaching about the political process in all grades, including elementary school. A political system is part of an intra-societal environment including ecological, biological, personality, economic, cultural, and other systems, all operating in society and bound by an…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Concept Teaching, Decision Making, Elementary Education
Vetter, Donald P.; And Others – 1977
This unit on economic decision-making is the fourth of five units in a ninth grade social studies course (see SO 010 891). Major objectives are to help students (1) explain how dissent and protest may be used as effective means of change and to consider the consequences of such actions; (2) examine the judicial branch of government in order to…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Civil Disobedience, Communication Skills, Constitutional History
