Postulates an alternative mode of conceiving organizational structure with educational administration as an illustration. The implications for the concepts of power, authority, and leadership are examined as well as those for administrative status. (Author)

Domes and bubbles are being utilized to create innovative environments for learning. (Author)

In the outpouring of material on the environmental crisis, the role of the individual is often forgotten. Yet, the individual remains a key factor in environmental reconstruction. (Author/SD)

Presents excerpts from 13 interviews with Bertrand Russell conducted for British television in 1959. The discussion covers the nature and purpose of philosophy, religion, war and pacifism, communism and capitalism, ethics and morality, personal and economic power, happiness, nationalism, individualism, fanaticism, and tolerance. (AM)

Summarizes the themes of a conference sponsored by the Association of Canadian Community Colleges and by the Society of the Publication Critere, Inc., during which the individual's right to action and decision beyond the control of professional groups was examined within the framework of law, politics, and the arts and sciences. (JP)

Reasons principals give for leaving the principalship involve job conditions more than personal or community circumstances. Diminished authority contributes to the attrition rate. From a random survey of 4,766 secondary school principals, just under 10 percent (446) indicated they had decided to leave the principalship in 1979. (Author/LD)

Argues that managers need to be skilled at acquiring and using power to do their jobs, and discusses four different types of power they can use to influence others. (JG)

Presents a survival expert's model of survival. Characterizes survival in terms of being prepared for a crisis, escaping the immediate threat, avoiding disorientation and fear, and the survival routine, which includes hope, flexibility, and humor. Notes the impact of posttrauma situations and the need for continued vigilance. (RJM)

The empowerment of individuals with disabilities has resulted in a corresponding disempowerment of service professionals. These professionals need the freedom to be diligent and effective in their work; they need opportunities to be creative, to try out new ideas, and perhaps to fail, rather than be buried under excessively burdensome restrictions…

Notes that the Toba Batak of North Sumatra provide internalized means of mediating mental health through religious-based notion of the tondi, or source of power, inside the person as the source of mental-physical health and illness. Discusses rituals necessary for maintaining health with rationale supporting those rituals. Describes applications…

Proposes that freedom--defined as liberty or the absence of constraints by others--should be kept conceptually distinct from notions of autonomy and ability, because freedom has a fundamental place in the achievement of autonomy and power through education. Reviews the positions of Kant, Mill, and other philosophers on freedom. (MAB)

Proposes alternative, empowering view of empowerment as a paradigm that increases behavior potential of people, both individually and in organizations. Behavior potential is defined as totality of behaviors available to a person. It is argued that an individual is empowered in possessing a repertoire of behaviors and in being able to express and…

Discusses empowering youth as means of prevention/intervention. Considers empowerment programs such as those used by Ekerd Therapeutic Wilderness Camping System. Focuses on challenges, opportunities, and responsibilities of extended wilderness trips. Notes that proactively empowering adolescents requires adult leaders who are sensitive to…