Author emphasized the conflicting roles of researchers and practitioners. He suggested solutions for bridging the existing gap, while noting that some of these issues cannot be easily resolved. (Editor/RK)

Instrumental to successful democratic leadership is the use of committees to solve management problems. In democratic leadership, a leader encourages participation and uses a guidance approach to direct a group toward consensus. This document offers leaders guidelines in effective democratic management of meetings. The authors first discuss the…

A history and chronology, together with a bibliography of relevant materials, focuses upon the student strike at San Francisco State College from November 1968 to March 1969, the largest in American academic history. The strike is set in its historical context, and minority student demands and major points of settlement are presented. The…

The effects of individual values upon the development of conflicts and the resolution of marital problems through counseling are explored, using the Interpersonal Growth Scale (IGS). This instrument is described as it evaluates the processes of growing apart and growing together, and notes operating values, determining their functions and…

SINCE MAN IS BOTH A COMMUNITY ANIMAL AND AT LEAST POTENTIALLY A RATIONAL ANIMAL, EDUCATORS SHOULD USE A HUMAN RELATIONS APPROACH WHICH TREATS THE PROBLEMS OF COMMUNITY LIFE AND OF RATIONALITY AND IRRATIONALITY TOGETHER. THEY MUST ATTEMPT TO REALIZE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION ACROSS BARRIERS OF NATIONALITY, CLASS, AND SPECIALIZATION AND TO CONNECT…

Collective bargaining between teachers and schools does not need to be limited to the "market place approach" emphasizing fiscal considerations. Attention to the professional nature of teachers and to the problems of education that administrators and teachers must join together to solve can reduce confrontation. Catholic schools and teachers can…

The roles that essentially contested concepts play in persuasive discourse are examined in this paper. The first section of the paper reviews W. B. Gallie's original explication of the nature of essentially contested concepts and the body of theoretical literature that has developed in response to it. It then notes three major areas of…

Fundamentally, negotiation is a process for making decisions and is rhetorical since it is open to view and to rhetorical constructs. The rhetorical construct related to negotiation is invention, the finding of the materials, the arguments, for the discourse. For cross-cultural negotiation, one must display empathy for the varying cultures,…

This paper describes a psychotherapeutic approach using psychodramatic procedures for training in handling of marital conflict. In this approach, persons are taught how to confront directly and deal actively with marital conflict situations. The author makes some theoretical assertions and then describes the psychodramatic procedures employed and…

The goal of this study was to describe and assess the impact of collective bargaining on the management of conflict in higher education. Bargaining and nonbargaining institutions were matched and their grievance processes compared on a number of dimensions. It was concluded that although collective bargaining has had a distinct effect on the way…

The 11 documents and articles in this annotated bibliography provide administrators with sources from which to obtain a basic understanding of the current status of conflict resolution theory and practice as it applies to education. Not all the entries are taken directly from the education literature; the references include information from…

In the past 15 years, there has been a great upsurge in interinstitutional cooperation, a momentum which will probably increase in the next 15 years. In order to find answers to some basic questions affecting consortia, the Midwest Association for Higher Education (MAHE)-a pseudonym-was studied. This paper deals primarily with the question: what…

There is no doubt that US institutions of higher education are often encrusted with traditions to the point where they no longer meet contemporary faculty and student needs. It is high time for educators in the US to admit that there is much merit in student desires for participatory campus governance, without which colleges and universities may…

Reports of job-hopping, opportunism, grantsmanship, and wheeling-dealing, based on the availability of federal research funds, by university faculty has created much concern in governmental and educational circles about the ethical problems these activities pose for the academic profession. In 1963, the Office of Science and Technology(OST) and…

The causes of student rebellion against established social and educational systems are rooted in many forces that impinge upon their lives, 3 of which are rapid social change, affluence, and the fear of technological death. The firm conviction of "new left" activists --the third generation of radical, militant students-- is that they must do…