Reports the experience of one teaching team's attempt to implement a "philosophy of choice" into a large lecture course at a major university. Assesses students' willingness to embrace innovation in the classroom, how choice-based learning impacted student self-assessed learning, and what considerations students take into account when selecting…

This article poses 10 questions for secondary school teachers who bemoan their students' lack of interest, laziness, and resistance to learning. Students need choices and chances to make decisions and assume responsibility for their own learning. They also need to laugh and feel important. Matching assignments to learning styles need not sacrifice…

Most reform movements do not fundamentally alter the prevailing organization, scheduling, curriculum, or structure of teaching. The time has come to view teachers as the solution to, rather than the source of, school problems. Empowerment reform raises questions and allows school practitioners to work toward their own answers. Includes 22…

Aurora (Colorado) Public Schools staff found that empowering students meant teaching students what enhances and what impedes learning; helping them recognize and develop their own personal learning strengths; teaching them specific thinking and learning strategies; and passing on learning responsibility to them. The key is willingness to share…

Based on a study of change facilitation in eight high schools, this article debunks three common myths concerning administrative organization as an obstacle to managing high school change. Tentative guidelines are provided to help determined managers cure stagnation and thwart bureaucratic intransigency. (MLH)

Empowerment through nonformal education helps women organize for change to meet practical and strategic needs. Stages of empowerment include awareness of the problem, ownership, interaction, personal action, and collective action. Each stage has cognitive, psychological, economic, and political dimensions. (SK)

The empowerment of individuals with disabilities has resulted in a corresponding disempowerment of service professionals. These professionals need the freedom to be diligent and effective in their work; they need opportunities to be creative, to try out new ideas, and perhaps to fail, rather than be buried under excessively burdensome restrictions…

The Grassroots Gender Empowerment Movement in Sierra Leone is a gender-focused program of small enterprise development and revolving loans that has brought a degree of economic independence, community development, gender awareness, improved living conditions, and empowerment to the women involved. (JOW)

Includes "Empowering Case Management Clients" (Rose); "Case Management in Rural Japan" (Maeda, Takahashi); "Coordinated-Care Teams" (Brodsky, Sobol); "Comparing Practice in the United States and the United Kingdom" (Sturges); "Business of Case Management Flourishing in the U.S." (Cress); and…

Marks on Paper, a type of popular theater developed in British Columbia, helps literacy learners change personal beliefs about themselves, generates a sense of belonging, helps them break out of isolation, and transforms them through empowerment and action. (SK)

Proposes alternative, empowering view of empowerment as a paradigm that increases behavior potential of people, both individually and in organizations. Behavior potential is defined as totality of behaviors available to a person. It is argued that an individual is empowered in possessing a repertoire of behaviors and in being able to express and…

Winshare is a gain-sharing system created to save a company. The program is based on the assumption that line workers know best how to do and improve their jobs. Employees are encouraged to suggest how to improve processes, reduce waste, or make their jobs easier. Employee teams are given the power and budget to implement changes. (JOW)

Notes that preliminary results from ongoing research into school restructuring suggest that certain elements are necessary to facilitate empowerment. Discusses how counselors can use these findings to become effective participants, helping schools become more empowering. Sees set of essential attitudes, decision-making process, and set of…

Discusses empowering youth as means of prevention/intervention. Considers empowerment programs such as those used by Ekerd Therapeutic Wilderness Camping System. Focuses on challenges, opportunities, and responsibilities of extended wilderness trips. Notes that proactively empowering adolescents requires adult leaders who are sensitive to…

Describes University of Richmond and Westhampton College, which function in coordinate college model, defending this hybrid. Describes how two cooperating single-sex colleges share joint, common curriculum but maintain somewhat separate identities, as with different faculties, residence halls, student governments, and college traditions. Describes…