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Eilertsen, Tor-Vidar; Gustafson, Niklas; Salo, Petri – Educational Action Research, 2008
This paper is based on the assumption that action research always affects the micropolitical balance characteristic of a certain school setting. The authors claim that micropolitics, that is the patterns of formal power and informal influence, has largely been neglected in the literature on action research in schools. This means that action…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Projects, Foreign Countries, Researchers
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Gough, Brendan; Reavey, Paula – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1997
Analysis of semistructured interviews with 10 parents concerning their views on physical punishment found parental confusion and contradiction. Four categories of justification for physical punishment were identified: pedagogic (educational), cathartic (need relief), individualistic (power assertion), and cyclical (reproduction). The utility of…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Rearing, Corporal Punishment, Discourse Analysis
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Murphy, Megan J.; Wright, David W. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2005
In this study, we examined the use of power in the supervisory relationship from supervisees' perspectives. Semistructured interviews of 11 supervisees in a Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education training program were conducted. From analysis of interview transcripts, themes about the ways in which supervisors and…
Descriptors: Therapy, Confidentiality, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Family Counseling