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Taylor, Ann; Puchner, Laurel D.; Powell, Margaret B.; Harris, Valorie; Marshall, Rick – Educational Action Research, 2012
Three teacher educators worked at a US community college with two adult education staff on a grant-supported project bridging high school dropouts from adult education to employment. The teacher educators' apparently simple task of facilitating grant participants' engagement with action research became confusingly challenging. The consultants…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Action Research, Dropouts, Adult Education
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Robins, Michael; Phillippe, David E. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1988
A survey of financial aid directors at all two-year colleges in four states measured differences between the administrators' desired and actual role functions. Analysis and implications of the results are presented. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Comparative Analysis, Expectation, Role Perception
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Bradtmueller, Weldon; Egan, James – Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception, 1981
Seventy-one elementary and middle school principals in northern Illinois responded to a questionnaire on their backgrounds in reading instruction, their preferences for certain approaches, their duties in relation to the reading program, and their feelings of competence in these matters. Responses are collated by school size. (SJL)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Educational Practices
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Straus, Anne Terry; Valentino, Debra – American Indian Quarterly, 2003
This article concerns eight decades (1920-2000) of community organization in the American Indian community in Chicago. While the trends discussed may be particular to that community or time frame, the authors expect that there are parallels in other urban Indian communities. The Chicago American Indian Center was the first urban Indian center in…
Descriptors: Local History, Females, Urban American Indians, Community Organizations