Many educational administrators feel seriously lacking in advocacy training. They want to be able to deal with disruptive conflicts and adversary situations with legislative bodies, parent groups, and executive agencies. When 19 school administrators were polled informally, they asked for advocacy training to help them acquire the skills of…

This report summarizes research findings concerning three types of conflict common in schools: structural conflict, group conflict, and cognitive conflict. Structural conflict arises out of the organizational structure. Corwin found that as schools become more complex, authority problems and teacher administrator conflicts rise. He also found that…

Women in professional situations often do not handle conflict resolution as well as their male counterparts. Instead of using learned behaviors based on sex stereotypes, women should use assertive behaviors that communicate respect for themselves and others. Communication styles include: 1) constructive feedback, 2) levels of assertiveness, 3)…

This dissertation is about the development of social movements out of racial and educational conflict in Boston. With a socio historical approach to the problem, this study makes use of oral history interviews, documents from groups involved in the education conflict, and census material. This examination centers on the black community of Boston…

The American public school no longer exists for the purpose of producing respectable middle class citizens. Moreover, the school administrator, long trained to manage schools, teachers, parents, and children with unquestioned authority, is approaching extinction. Schools have not been for educating children but for producing conformity to socially…

Managing educational conflict has become increasingly more complex. The purpose of this study was to identify three areas of educational conflict and suggest strategies for managing such conflict. These areas are student-student conflict, student-school conflict, and school-community conflict. Data were collected through interviews with people who…

Societal norms and values have changed so drastically during the last decade that educational institutions are being forced to respond and react to intense pressures both from inside and outside their own organizational structure. A forward looking institutional planning function requires that organizational forms and modes be arranged to…

Recent contentions that the settings and problems of social evaluation research renders this new "subdiscipline" substantively distinct from the remainder of social psychology are critically examined. It is argued that the demonstrable existence of meta-conflicts about the conduct of social evaluation efforts, political sensitivities in the…

The purpose of both factfinding to settle a negotiations impasse and arbitration to settle a grievance is to present the evidence necessary to resolve the conflict between union and management. The author of this paper, himself a factfinder and arbitrator, lists tactics and practices that impede the efficient collection of evidence in factfinding.…

This report by the campus ombudsman at San Diego State College discusses in the preface some ways of approaching the position and the elements to be included in prospective job descriptions. The report begins with a description of the kind of person needed for such a position, how to establish the office and choose the man, the type of office…

The paper considers the efficacy of role reversal, used in conflict situations, for reducing distortions in perceptions of the opponent's position, for increasing understanding of the opponent's position, for clarifying communication during negotiations, and for inducing cooperative behavior in conflict situations. It was noted that little…

The paper identifies some major issues in assessing creative problem solving. Four main problems are discussed: (1) no single widely accepted theory of creativity exists; (2) there is a lack of understanding of the implications of the differences in assessment procedures; (3) researchers, on the one hand, view creativity as entirely a cognitive…

The inevitable confrontation at Columbia University during the Spring of 1968 was instigated by a small group of student extremists whose objectives were to destroy the university. These students gave some legitimacy to their activities by associating themselves with other students to exploit basic issues of widespread concern: the war in Vietnam,…

College and university response to the sense of anomie experienced by students --especially those attending large, complex institutions-- has been to implement several plans for reducing the students' feelings of impersonality and estrangement. In one of these plans, based on the "ombudsman" concept, students register complaints to 1 individual,…

The relationship between ratings of leadership effectiveness and conflict resolution methods was investigated within a large midwestern manufacturing firm. Hypotheses based on Blake and Mouton's managerial grid were tested and were not supported within these data. Results indicated that grid placement was a poor predictor of either perceived…