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Download full textMerkle, Dale G.; Treagust, David F. – 1988
Most school curricula include the study of health as a separate subject or as part of science. Despite this, students often leave school without a clear understanding of many health concepts. This study investigated a group of grade eight and nine students' knowledge of personal health and physical fitness concepts and its relation to locus of…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Grade 8, Grade 9
Carnahan, Robert E. – 1982
The relationship between the current collective bargaining movement in higher education and faculty alienation was studied by determining whether professional and work conditions were related to alienation and whether faculty alienation affected opinions concerning collective bargaining. Of 401 mailed questionnaires, 187 usable responses were…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Employment Practices, Faculty College Relationship
Christy-Baker, Cynthia; Randolph, Dorothy S. – 1982
Self-instructional materials for the beginning level child welfare worker are provided in this source book. Basic information about hostility, clients who feel threatened, and situations where the worker feels threatened is included. Practice skills for dealing with hostility or feelings of being threatened as experienced by the worker or client…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Client Relationship
Morrison, James D. – 1978
The pressure of removal of all Indians from the eastern states and territories to the undeveloped West caused the Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes to re-frame their basic institutions, including their governments, in an attempt to conform with Anglo American ideas of what was "civilized". Both the Choctaws and Cherokees established…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Civil Liberties, Community Control
Lenhardt, Gero – 1980
In an attempt to gain a better perspective on the relationship between education and the modern state, this paper reopens the theoretical debate on the key role of formal rationality in Max Weber's interpretation of the capitalist economy and the modern bureaucratic state. Against the background of an extensive review of the development and the…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Economic Development, Economic Factors
Tannenbaum, Arnold S.; And Others – 1977
Four papers are presented in this research report. Cooke and Tannenbaum present the theoretical background, methodology, and results of a study exploring the relation of formal and informal participation to the distribution of control in community colleges. Data, collected from students, faculty, and administrators of five "formally participative"…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, College Administration, Community Colleges
Cohen, Elizabeth G. – 1979
Social processes in desegregated schools are much more complicated than is generally thought. Data from three desegregated schools are used to highlight the operation of two social processes which have an impact on the interracial behavior of students. One process stems from an academic status ordering, the other comes from power relations in the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cooperation, Desegregation Effects, Educational Status Comparison
Laitman-Ashley, Nancy M., Comp. – 1979
Focusing on five possible transition points in a woman's career, these five symposium papers explore some major problems that women encounter in career and job transitions and present existing and potential solutions and the extent to which women develop skills and abilities in one setting that are transferable to another situation. Priscilla…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Development, Careers
Skjervold, Christian K.; Tipple, Bruce – 1975
The document presents unit overviews describing activities in the Minneapolis Multi-Ethnic Curriculum Project for secondary schools. It is divided into seven sections, each relating to a specific topic. Sections are entitled ethnicity, migration, acculturation, ethnic enclaves, family, prejudice/discrimination, and power. Each section offers from…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Objectives, Ethnic Groups
Skjervold, Christian K.; And Others – 1975
The student booklet presents short chapters illustrating the power unit of the Minneapolis Multi-Ethnic Curriculum Project for secondary schools. Nine brief chapters describe individuals, organizations, and labor unions and their relationship to power in the United States. Chapter I describes the early history of the International Ladies Garment…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Community Action, Community Influence
BOOCOCK, SARANE S.; AND OTHERS – 1967
AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED TO INVESTIGATE STUDENTS' SENSE OF CONTROL OVER THEIR OWN DESTINIES, THE EFFECTS OF SIMULATION GAMES ON THESE CONTROL BELIEFS, AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF THESE ISSUES TO THE RACIAL COMPOSITION OF A SCHOOL. IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT INDIVIDUALS LACKING A SENSE OF CONTROL HAD HAD LIMITED EXPERIENCE WITH SITUATIONS WHICH COULD…
Descriptors: Black Students, Control Groups, Data, Educational Experiments
Carroll, Larry; And Others
This manual is designed for use in a workshop on leadership training. A discussion is given on the interaction between individuals that produces change in both personal behavior and gradual changes in organizational structures. Theories are presented on methods of bringing about desired change. The major theory under consideration is that of using…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Olsen, Judith E. – 1979
Six classes with 20 students per class participated in a study to determine the effects of television programing's stereotyped images on children's autonomy (independence of thought and action). Classes of first and second grade students and two classes of fifth grade students were the experimental groups, while the third and sixth grade classes…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Elementary Education, Individual Power
Kindervatter, Suzanne – 1979
This monograph discusses the role of nonformal education in increasing peoples' powers of self-determination within underdeveloped countries. Chapters I and II review the causes of underdevelopment, ways in which the third world depends upon developed countries, strategies for overcoming dependency, and the role of individuals in promoting their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Area Studies, Case Studies, Change Strategies
BROWN, ANNA CAROLINE BAKER – 1963
RELATIVELY STANDARD SOCIOMETRIC PROCEDURES WERE USED IN THREE SMALL MICHIGAN COMMUNITIES TO IDENTIFY WOMEN SAID TO HAVE HIGH INFLUENCE. DATA ON PARTICIPATION, DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS, AND PERCEPTIONS OF ADULT EDUCATION WERE THEN OBTAINED IN PERSONAL INTERVIEWS. SOME MAJOR FINDINGS WERE THAT THE INFLUENTIALS BELONGED TO MORE THAN ONE…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitudes, Community Leaders, Doctoral Dissertations
