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Navarro, Richard A.; And Others – 1986
This progress report of ethnographic research on instructional leadership focuses on a new elementary school principal's role formation in relation to teaching staff and district organizational culture. The project, which examines the prevailing notion of instructional leadership in school effectiveness literature, reveals a gap in perspective…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Research, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The nine titles deal with the following topics: (1) small group interaction within effective and ineffective decision making groups; (2) vertical communication as perceived by administrators and teachers; (3) communication roles as…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Communication Research, Decision Making
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Direct linkBrady, Patrick – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2004
The adolescent peer group constitutes a vital component of the institutional culture of the contemporary secondary school. Formed among students and reinforced by administrators and teachers, it takes the form of a structured status hierarchy whose membership and boundaries are clearly understood within the school community. Individual students'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Peer Groups, Student Subcultures
Bailey, Gerald D. – 1982
The state-of-the-art review addresses the problems faced by rural education in the area of curriculum development and suggests that mechanisms for curriculum development may need to be different or redefined to allow rural schools to operate at their maximum potential. The report looks at the positive and negative factors influencing rural…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Bunyan, L. W. – 1965
The purpose of this study was to review current developments in team teaching and to assess its potential in the Calgary, Alberta, schools. An investigation into team teaching situations in schools in the eastern half of the United States and Canada revealed characteristics common to successful programs (e.g., charismatic leadership and innovative…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Elementary Education, Flexible Scheduling, Horizontal Organization
Young, Richard E.; Cunningham, Clarence J. – 1974
Findings of a three-year project carried out by the Ohio Cooperative Extension Service of Ohio State University indicated that area agent staffing in Extension may result in professional workers being more satisfied with their jobs and feeling more meaningfully involved in the organizational hierarchy. The role conflict that might be expected when…
Descriptors: County Officials, Extension Agents, Extension Education, Job Satisfaction
Regoli, Robert M.; Hewitt, John D.; Munoz, Robert, Jr.; Regoli, Adam M. – Negro Educational Review, The, 2004
While on the surface baseball cards may appear to be a mundane object of child's play, they are precious tools for examining U.S. society. Baseball cards not only hold a wealth of information regarding the players they feature they also reveal much about the state of society at the time of their production and the individuals who collect them. In…
Descriptors: Race, Role, Team Sports, Athletes
STEERE, BOB F. – 1967
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A NONGRADED HIGH SCHOOL WAS COMPARED WITH THAT OF A TRADITIONALLY GRADED HIGH SCHOOL IN THE SAME CITY BY ADMINISTERING TESTS AND RELATED EVALUATION METHODS TO A RANDOMLY SELECTED SAMPLE GROUP OF 141 TENTH-YEAR STUDENTS AT EACH OF THE SCHOOLS. SIX STUDENT GROUPS FOR EACH SCHOOL (DISTINGUISHED BY SEX AND ABILITY LEVEL) WERE USED…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Classification
Polk County Public Schools, Des Moines, IA. – 1967
The Intermediate Administrative Unit of Polk County, Iowa is outlined in this document. Items discussed include board of education philosophy and policy, personnel, educational services, administrative organization, county board of education and superintendent relationships, county board and local board relationships, budgeting, and fiscal…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Responsibility, Administrators, Ancillary School Services
THURLEY, KEITH – 1967
BRITAIN STUDIED SUPERVISORY TRAINING IN JAPAN, IN ORDER TO GAIN INSIGHT INTO ITS OWN TRAINING PROBLEMS. TRADITIONAL SUPERVISION IN JAPANESE INDUSTRY HAD PRODUCED INCAPABLE FOREMEN THROUGH SENIORITY PROMOTION, CAUSED DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIPS BECAUSE OF AUTHORITARIAN ATTITUDES, AND FAILED TO CLARIFY AUTHORITY ROLES. THE GOVERNMENT RECOMMENDED MORE…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis
Dunlap, Diane M.; Goldman, Paul – 1990
An alternative conceptualization of organizational power is proposed. Power as a "system of facilitation," in contrast to power as a "system of authority" is explored and related to educational administration practices. The educational trends of clinical supervision and individualized programming within special education are analyzed to illustrate…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers), Collegiality
Layne, Linda L. – 1984
A field study conducted in the east Jordan Valley (September 1981-August 1983) explored the role of formal education in the maintenance of sex-gender hierarchy and other social heirarchies. Two rural secondary schools were studied, one for boys and one for girls, both attended by members of several different social/ethnic groups who consider…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Attitudes, Equal Education, Ethnic Bias
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 2003
The evolution of the workplace has required changes in the guidance and counseling practices of career education (CE). Basic elements of CE strategies for enhancing students' career awareness, exploration, and planning are still in place, but contemporary issues such as life-work balance, involuntary career transitions, and mentoring have led to…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Berman, David M. – 1987
In structure and in function, the Japanese high school entrance examination--as exemplified by data from Chiba prefecture in 1986--survives as a prewar hierarchical cultural pattern. Postwar American occupation reforms offered "democratic education" in the form of a single-track system with 9 years of compulsory schooling; such a system,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Case Studies, Cultural Influences
Koos, Leonard V. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1934
This manuscript, prepared by Doctor Koos and the staff, is a summary of the entire survey as published in 27 other monographs. It epitomizes the organization of secondary education, giving due stress to full-time and part-time schools; to the nature of the secondary-school population, showing that it has increased very greatly and, therefore, it…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Physical Education, Articulation (Education), Secondary Education
