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Mediratta, Kavitha – 2001
This paper examines school reform via community organizing in New York City's lowest performing public school districts. It summarizes findings from a national study on community organizing for school reform, profiling 10 community organizing groups. In 2000, researchers conducted surveys of and interviews with all NYC groups currently engaged in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Involvement, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Kezar, Adrianna – National Survey of Student Engagement, 2005
Collaborative, shared leadership among administrators, students, faculty, and staff is a key component to creating campus environments that foster student success. Collaborative work groups can be powerful vehicles for launching and institutionalizing student-friendly policies and practices and for developing complementary programs such as…
Descriptors: Colleges, Cooperation, Program Development, Student Leadership
Hutchinson, Frank – 1996
This paper argues the importance of not only understanding how "cultural editing" may limit our images and those of our children for creating non-violent futures, but also of the need for quality responses by teachers and teacher educators to such editing. Cultural editing is a term futurists use to describe processes both within formal and…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Bjerstedt, Ake – 1996
This pamphlet offers an overview of five larger reports in order to facilitate the process of locating contributions originating from five peace conferences between 1990-1994. The Peace Education Commission (PEC) arranged five conferences in Groningen (The Netherlands), Firenze (Italy), Kyoto (Japan), Budapest (Hungary) and Valletta (Malta). A…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Haque, Riffat; Batool, Syeda Najeeba – 1999
The Allama Iqbal Open University of Pakistan started the Women's Secondary Education Project through distance learning in 1986. It was designed to meet the educational needs of rural women who are denied access to the formal education system because of social and economic constraints. The distance education method suited these women because by…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Distance Education, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Kaufmann, Jodi – 2001
Oppositional feminist ethnography does have something to offer those in adult education. Because adult educators adhere to a mission of social justice, concern over issues of power, knowledge construction, positionality, identity, and voice have become more prevalent. Although discourses dealing with equity are increasing, those in the field still…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Consciousness Raising, Discourse Analysis, Empowerment
Gutierrez, Lorraine; Oh, Hyun Joo; Gillmore, Mary Rogers – 1998
Preventing the spread of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among women is a national priority. In the United States, AIDS is the sixth leading cause of death among young adult women, and their rate of infection is four times higher than men. This article was developed to help stimulate interest in the power dynamics of relationships and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, At Risk Persons, Behavioral Science Research, Blacks
Dulworth, Michael R. – Journal of Instruction Delivery Systems, 1996
Presents an overview of interactive multimedia learning systems. Highlights include hardware platforms; authoring programs; benefits; cost savings; empowerment; multiple sensory learning; barriers to implementation; a strategy for the improvement of existing training programs; an evaluation checklist; and possible future developments. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Check Lists, Computer Selection, Cost Effectiveness
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Benitez, Mara – Reclaiming Children and Youth: Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, 1996
Describes the birth and growth of Circle of Sistahs, a school group developed to provide support to adolescent girls of color from mostly impoverished backgrounds. The students learn to take responsibility for their learning and engage in critical thinking. As they overcome battered self-images, they teach younger girls and engage in service to…
Descriptors: Blacks, Consciousness Raising, Empowerment, Ethnic Bias
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Nichols, Timothy J.; Kayongo-Male, Diane – Journal of American Indian Education, 2003
Tribal college-state university collaborations were examined through interviews with 36 faculty and administrators from 9 tribal colleges in North and South Dakota and 4 state universities involved in collaborative efforts. The collaborative process was influenced by contextual, individual, organizational, collaboration, and empowerment factors.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, American Indian Education, Community Colleges, Context Effect
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Nichols, Joe D. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1996
Compares two board members' educational philosophies and motivations, highlighting typical power struggles with patrons, teachers, and administrators. Both board members hold traditional educational values and a "back to basics" approach to curriculum development. Whereas Tom considers his unwillingness to compromise a positive…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Back to Basics, Boards of Education, Case Studies
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Mitchell, Linda M.; Philibert, Darbi Breath – Young Exceptional Children, 2002
This article discusses the importance of early intervention advocacy and provides vignettes that illustrate sample early intervention advocacy issues from the perspectives of parents, teachers, and program administrators. Quick tips are provided for professionals as self-advocates and for family advocacy, along with legislative Web site resources.…
Descriptors: Activism, Administrators, Advocacy, Change Strategies
Kassam, Yusuf – Prospects, 1989
Asks who benefits from illiteracy to reveal the political implications of literacy's empowering potential. Observes literacy's ultimate capacity to overturn power structures and redistribute wealth and resources at international, national, and local levels. Relates the literacy problem to colonialism and its legacy. Offers examples of literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Colonialism, Cross Cultural Studies, Developed Nations
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Fagan, William T. – Reading Teacher, 1989
Examines the nature of power over literacy (such as knowledge of print conventions, and experiences of participation in reading and writing activities) which children often possess when they begin school. Discusses ways in which teachers sometimes interfere with this power and how they can, instead, enhance it. (MM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Context Effect, Early Reading, Elementary Education
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Chang, Jeff – Amerasia Journal, 1993
Reviews the rap song "Black Korea" by Ice Cube as a summation of interracial conflict in an environment of deteriorating opportunities and as an artifact of popular culture. How the hierarchy of racial power in the media and the marketplace shaped the dynamics of the conflicts is reviewed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Black Culture, Blacks, Characterization
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