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Peer reviewedLightfoot, Sara Lawrence – Peabody Journal of Education, 1986
The author defines her terms of goodness and empowerment in a context of studying school environments. "Good" schools are then described, the settings in which the field work was conducted are given and the methods of student and teacher empowerment at six good high schools are discussed. (JL)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Empowerment, Field Studies
Download full textHanson, E. Mark; Brown, Michael E. – 1977
Patterns of problem-solving activity in one middle-class urban high school are examined and a problem solving model rooted in a conceptual framework of contingency theory is presented. Contingency theory stresses that as political, economic, and social conditions in an organization's environment become problematic, the internal structures of the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies, Data Analysis, Educational Administration
