Discusses the importance of organizational planning and outlines steps in successful planning: getting started, selecting the committee, deciding the group's goal, plan elements, gathering data, and the finished plan. Emphasizes the importance of people to the planning process--the group should include a mix of talents, ages, and constituencies,…

Outlines an expanded framework of the Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) approach to career problem solving and decision making for career counseling with women. Addresses structural and individual barriers in women's career development and provides practical suggestions for applying and evaluating the CIP approach in career counseling.…

Discussion of change within the university focuses on the radical rethinking of university culture, the importance of all members of the institution being "empowered" to identify their crucial and unique roles, and the concept of "learning organizations" committed to continuous improvement and a spirit of inquiry and continual learning. (Author/DB)

At a time when collaborative leadership is much heralded in American institutional life as the antidote to discontent with power structures, colleges and universities have illustrated that shared governance is not inherently collaborative. The sense of common cause on campus should come from a shared knowledge base, concern with external…

To help alleviate the severe shortage of principals in the next 10 years, advocates principals sharing leadership with teachers as a strategy for recruiting teachers to the principalship. Also suggests several ways principal training programs can support and foster collaborative leadership. (PKP)

While the benefits of participating in care or medical decision making are widely reported, research on decision-making participation preferences usually reveals some portion of individuals who do not want to be involved. Data collected through structured, in-person interviews with 100 residents of six long-term care (LTC) facilities in Victoria,…

This paper presents a rationale for consulting with very young children to enable their voices to be heard, and taken into consideration, when planning pre-school provision. It goes on to suggest that the expressed preferences of pre-school children can be taken as an accurate account of their thoughts and feelings. This is tested through a case…

Both in structure and focus, FLCs create a necessary construct for a cultural transformation of teaching and learning that invites all to achieve their intellectual and social potential. The following are appended: (1) Self-Assessment Inventory on Inclusiveness; and (2) Student Assessment of Classroom Climate.

Foster's concerns with the decline of the local are examined in the context of schools' embeddedness in intersections of social, economic, and political forces of the communities in which they are located. Three readings are taken of Foster's call to explore political and economic undercurrents when viewing schools as agents of, and for,…

Psychopharmacological treatments have been used with increased frequency to treat a variety of internalizing and externalizing disorders in children. Given the potential impact that medication has on children's school performance, school psychologists should be involved in helping physicians and families make effective decisions by assisting with…

We adapt resource theory to compare involvement in family decisions by older women and men in the more patriarchal setting of Egypt and the more egalitarian setting of Tunisia. Data from the World Health Organization Collaborative Study on Social and Health Aspects of Aging are analyzed. In Egypt, women participate less often than men in most…

Discussions about what makes a good school often overlook the importance of encouraging active student involvement in creating their own school environment. In the wake of September 11, surveys showed a drop in youth participation in traditional politics and participatory citizenship. In this article, the author observes how despite the fact that…

Community involvement in education has been viewed as a--by no means uncontroversial--means for enabling local members to deepen their participation in the decision-making relevant to their schools by playing a constructive role in the process. On the basis of a study carried out in Ghana, the present contribution to this discussion examines…

The Ethical Challenges scenario in the June 2004 issue of the American Journal of Evaluation focused on an evaluator-client disagreement concerning the wisdom of having consumer representation on a steering committee that would help plan and oversee an evaluation in an agency providing community-based residential services to the chronically…

This article describes the development of Murdoch's academic council (which resembles a faculty senate) from its creation to 2003, charting how it gained and later lost its legitimacy, and then rediscovered it. It draws on documentation, such as council minutes and legislation, as well as on interviews with twelve present and former council…