The author suggests that teachers should be involved in the decision making process and that the administrator should structure meetings to generate such participation. Discussed are the National Group Technique (NGT) and the Delphi Technique as means of facilitating pooled judgments. (KC)

After consciousness raising, what? Women who want to alter their socialized responses may learn the necessary skills from counselors. Teaching behavioral self-management principles in the context of women's sex role enculturation is a preventive as well as corrective approach to helping women develop increased personal effectiveness. (Author)

Discusses four elements involved in the formation of social policy. (MP)

The article discusses the problem of defining the term severely handicapped and examines and evaluates previously advanced definitions. (Author/CL)

Guidelines in value clarification are offered to help the teacher of gifted students increase self-knowledge through prizing, choosing, and acting. Questions for the teacher as well as a sample lesson plan are provided. (CL)

Alfonso Ortiz, anthropologist, historian, activist, and member of San Juan Pueblo, discusses education in general, bilingual education, the Tewa culture, Indian water rights, tribal sovereignty, the power issues in the Four Corners area, and his book -- "The Tewa World". (NQ)

Experienced secondary teachers completed a survey probing their feelings of personal efficacy toward teaching different classes. Teachers' performance expectancies varied among teaching assignments. Within-teacher factors accounted for 21 percent of the variance in teacher efficacy (TE). The influence of within-teacher factors on TE was moderated…

Highlights bad management practices: not providing clear instructions or job descriptions; rewarding work with more work; carrying grudges; rewarding employee "rats"; evaluating employees on personality rather than work performance; making sure subordinates do not look too good to superiors; playing favorites; not sharing power; and…

The authors present perspectives on the employment of participatory research techniques in three areas: (1) North America (Gaventa); (2) Latin America (de Souza); and (3) Southern Europe (Orefice). Discussion focuses on participatory research strategies for popular groups, purposes and considerations regarding participatory research, and the role…

Examined interaction between Type A behavior and perceived controllability of stressors on overt exhibition of Type A behavior and task performance. Results from 122 undergraduate business students indicated that Type A behavior had strongest effect on overt exhibition of Type A behavior when subjects perceived their environment as moderately…

Most research on participation in adult education has focused on participative presence. However, learner involvement and control are far more important in adult education, and this disjunction leads to research findings of little practical value. More interpretive or critical research approaches would yield more valuable results and make…

Compared adult respondents who experienced parental divorce (N=257) or death (N=223) as children with respondents who grew up in continuously intact families (N=1989) on self-esteem and sense of power. Found no differences in self-esteem. Found differences in power were not significant when educational attainment was introduced. (Author/ABL)

Health care providers may encroach on individual autonomy of older persons, especially those they define as at risk. Providers should seek to promote self-care skills, define the client as a group or community, and recognize clients' role in forming healthy public policy. (SK)

Seven infants and toddlers with severe/profound and multiple learning difficulties were presented with a contingency situation which they could control. Increased responses and positive emotional effects, which were reversed when their control was eliminated, suggested that infants with mental ages as young as two months can detect cause and…

Because most children are involuntarily referred to counseling, counselors must expect resistance and accept it as reasonable reaction. Counselors engage children by explaining rules of counseling and gaining informed consent. Methods for securing commitment to change include indirect confrontation with puppets, media or stories, paradox and…