This paper focuses on the technique of role-switching as a workable field relationship tactic in the observer's work site. It describes the nature of subject use of the observer's dual status during the research activity, and conceptualizes the relationship between this type of researcher-role management and the premise of role reciprocity in…

This report describes efforts to test a model of leadership effectiveness that centers on "macro variables" and "discretionary leadership." Macro variables were represented by the complexity of the environment, context, and structure of a unit. Discretionary leadership was defined as influence over and above that typically…

Changes in the administrative roles of deans in baccalaureate nursing programs are discussed. These changes require a systematic preservice and inservice education to prepare deans of nursing for more effective practice. Some programs directed towards meeting this need are described briefly. (Author/EC)

This article is a National Vocational Guidance Association and American Vocational Association Joint position paper. It was prepared in partial response to the need for a coherent policy in that it describes the concept of career development in general terms but the discussion of its application is limited specifically to the school setting.…

A model proposal for a strike contingency plan is presented as a guide to the many concerns that must be dealt with so that potential disrupting activities of employee organizations will least compromise the instructional program. Operational, instructional, and negotiational considerations are listed for a private, multi-campus university. (JT)

The author questions whether emphasis on student needs for immediate employment is at the expense of the quality of education given them and points up the role of trustees in helping administrators and faculty divorce society's manpower needs from the needs of students to achieve excellence. (Editor/JT)

This article describes the life cycle of an industrial research and development project and suggests applications to educational research and development. It also discusses the importance, funding, staffing, and management of a research and development effort.(DC)

The management development program should respond to diagnosed needs of current and relevant data; the man responsible for it must have a variety of skills, and be able to gather data, analyze it, and intervene in the management process at the right moment with the right methods. (Author)

Effective community education depends upon designated leadership placed high in the administrative hierarchy of an existing educational agency. This article lists the three major functions of the organizational and administrative structure in community education and six roles for community colleges. (DC)

Independent study professionals have grown out of a largely clerical environment and are sometimes not part of upper hierarchies. Though mid-level within distance learning administration, their educational and technical competencies afford a certain power over curriculum content and format, also suggesting an important place in establishing…

A brief discussion of the growing conflict between teachers, administrators, school board members, legislators, and citizen groups over who should have how much control over various aspects of education. (JG)

Included in this annotated bibliography of 11 publications are reports asserting that principals primarily are instructional leaders whose training must include a strong mentor relationship and expanded experiential education. Subsequent reports suggest that educational programs should prepare students for the socialization aspects of their future…

This collection of articles examines the history of student development practices, reviews key issues that have emerged in the field, and proposes paths of action for the future. The volume includes: (1) "Student Development Philosophy: A Perspective on the Past and Future," by Terry O'Banion, which reviews the history of student development; (2)…

As teachers assume a variety of leadership functions traditionally held by the principal and as they become much more of a self-managing professional work group, it is important to examine the implications of these changes for the leadership behavior of professionals credentialed as building principles. This paper presents data from indepth…

It is a premise of this Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) yearbook, that staff development will become a human Curriculum Development (ASCD) yearbook, that staff development will become a human resource development system designed to change the nature of schooling, the status of its personnel, and their relations with…