Using a variety of perspectives on change and work identity, investigates the learning and development of a workgroup of educators developing online courses. Provides recommendations for sustainable change processes related to technology and educational innovation. (Contains 38 references.) (SK)

Explains that while higher education mergers frequently are disruptive, strongly contested, and costly, they have the potential to produce substantial longer-term benefits, particularly larger and more comprehensive institutions, stronger academic programs, improved student services, enhanced student choice, greater institutional flexibility and,…

Discusses critical educational studies in foreign language and the issues they illuminate in regard to the image of foreign language education in the United States. Explores how a critical pedagogy of foreign language education can strengthen the endeavor and advocate specific avenues of reform. (Author/VWL)

Using learning theories of Dewey, Wenger, and others, six elements of effective change for improving physicians' practice are interpreted: (1) complex reality of clinical practice; (2) attention to the designated change; (3) diagnostic analysis of target group and setting; (4) mix of actions to address needs and barriers; (5) action plan; and (6)…

Notes that Judith Butler is arguably one of the world's most influential and innovative scholars dealing with questions of difference, identity, and the role of rhetoric in subject formation. Explores Butler's views on anti-intellectualism and identity relating to sexual orientation. Presents an interview examining many of Butler's writings. (SG)

To develop nonbureaucratic leadership behavior (and earn prestige among staff members), principals must understand and recognize seven bureaucratic/nonbureaucratic ranges of behavior: stability/activity; intention/distinction; accountability/efficacy; regularity/ variability; intervention/facilitation; control/empowerment; and…

To achieve the national goals for education, we must exert the same energy, time, money, and practice on education basics as we devote to sports, video games, rock music, television viewing, shopping, and other diversions. Modest suggestions, such as a law that switches off TV nationally during early weekday evenings, are provided. (MLH)

Describes variety of education strategies pertaining to identity development for adolescents along with their probable impacts upon various aspects of processes involved in forming a sense of identity. Presents ethical considerations for both supporting and opposing identity-related interventions. Offers suggestions for how best to proceed when…

By examining the premises underlying conventional approaches to teaching disadvantaged students, educators can devise more challenging content and more effective instructional methods. Some important principles include maximizing time on task, establishing high expectations and a school climate supporting academic learning, and strengthening…

Based on author's experiences working with three school districts that wanted to improve counseling programs, this article discusses precipitants of change efforts, barriers to change, and the role of the consultant. The change process described focuses on assessment, goal setting, and strategy development. (NB)

Suggests some basic marketing principles that might be applied to assist school counselors in selling their guidance programs to the public. Discusses assessing the needs and demands for guidance services, product development and defining the guidance program, pricing, distribution, and advertising and public relations. (NB)

Discusses the role of the elementary school computer lab instructor and suggests that, for successful integration of computers into the curriculum, the role should change from teacher to consultant. Strategies of change are discussed in two main stages: educating teachers, followed by shifting responsibility from the lab instructor to the…

Describes framework for organizational change based on propositions that change must be measurable and observable; organizational change requires individual change; and individual change requires learning and motivation to apply learning. Two models explained: a matrix indicating degrees of acceptance of problem and solution and continuum relating…

Schools must operate in the same external environment that shapes change in the business world. R.H. Watherman identified eight organization renewal themes: informed opportunism, direction and empowerment, friendly facts and congenial financial controls, enlightened curiosity, teamwork, stability in motion, attitudes and attention, and causes and…

Current developments in dental education and practice hold tremendous potential for positive change and growth, and warrant the immediate inauguration of a planning and implementation process to exploit new opportunities rather than merely adjust existing concepts and practices. (MSE)