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Blodgett, Bridget M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
For the first time in the history of collective action, the offline world has experienced a virtually organized and enacted union strike. While this was the first publicly noticed political action in a virtual world, others have been going on for several years now. As virtual worlds continue to grow in popularity, this type of protest of action…
Descriptors: Strikes, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Social Action
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Bousquet, Marc – Academe, 2010
The academic year began with a bang last fall at the University of California (UC). A series of bangs, actually, featuring a united front of students, staff, and faculty in a coordinated series of walkouts and strikes across the system's ten campuses. The target of their outrage was a series of draconian layoffs, wage cuts, and drastic tuition…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Political Attitudes, Governance, Job Layoff
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Hazou, Rand – Research in Drama Education, 2008
This paper focuses on issues of embodiment specific to the experiences of an asylum seeker represented in the play "Refugitive" (2003). The play was written and performed by Shahin Shafaei, an Iranian asylum seeker who spent a period of 22 months in an Australian detention centre. The narrative of the play emerges through a conversation…
Descriptors: Strikes, Activism, Mental Disorders, Hunger
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Robert, Andre D.; Tyssens, Jeffrey – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
This article aims to interpret teacher strikes through a multi-level analysis and the identification of a number of relevant factors relative to the professional project (in a neo-Weberian sense) of primary and secondary school teachers. In the first place the authors' interpretation is based on references to contextual and structural elements,…
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Secondary School Teachers, Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping
Leung, Trini – Albert Shanker Institute, 2008
This report presents accounts based on first-hand interviews conducted by Han Dongfang, China's leading labor rights advocate, with workers across China. Han Dongfang was a leader of the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation (BWAF), an independent labor group organized during the Tiananmen Square protests. Han today carries on the fight from Hong…
Descriptors: Labor Demands, Labor, Foreign Countries, Radio
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Berkovich, Izhak – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: Teachers' resistance to educational reform has been explored, with special attention given to the reasons driving opposition and the resistance practices employed inside school walls. These studies have not, however, examined the agenda setting strategy employed by teachers opposing new policy on the national level, nor has any extensive…
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Agenda Setting, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Schwartz, Howard S. – Academic Questions, 2009
The announcement in June 2007 by Antioch University that it would be closing Antioch College produced a great deal of commentary. One of the better offerings was a 2007 piece in the "Weekly Standard" by Charlotte Allen, which ran under the title "Death by Political Correctness." Her analysis presents a complex picture, but Allen leaves no doubt…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Politics of Education, Colleges, Strikes
Meredith, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the strength of correlation between union-administrator relationships and principals' opportunities to create a positive school culture for learning during intent to strike conditions. The goal of this positivist study was to allow for an exploration of the extent to which…
Descriptors: Correlation, Unions, School Culture, Principals
Educational Service Region of Cook County, Chicago, IL. – 1973
Summarized testimony heard at the public hearings held by the Educational Service Region of Cook County (March 1, 1973) is presented in this document. In addition to being printed in narrative form, the comments are also analyzed in tables according to content and response to key issues centered around collective bargaining. An opening letter by…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Grievance Procedures, Strikes, Teacher Strikes
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Paquin, Thomas F. – NASSP Bulletin, 1971
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Community Relationship, Strikes, Teacher Strikes
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Jascourt, Hugh D. – Journal of Law and Education, 1979
Reviews the concept of the "right" to strike, state laws allowing strikes, and court decisions establishing standards in this area. (IRT)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Government Employees, State Legislation, Strikes
Bigelow, Bill – Rethinking Schools, Ltd, 2008
"A People's History for the Classroom" helps teachers introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of U.S. history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. It includes a new introductory essay by veteran teacher Bill Bigelow on teaching strategies that align with Howard Zinn's "A People's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, United States History, Teaching Methods, History Instruction
Nance, Molly – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2008
From November 6, 1968, to March 21, 1969, the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front led a strike to demand San Francisco State College--now called San Francisco State University (SFSU)--admit and enroll more students of color, hire more minority faculty, and create a School of Ethnic Studies. The strike made an enormous impact…
Descriptors: Strikes, African American Students, Ethnic Studies, State Colleges
Duerr, Edwin C. – Educ Rec, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Activism, Higher Education, Police Action
Douglas, Joel M. – Labor Law Journal, 1979
Outlines five approaches to the use of court injunctions to end public employee work stoppages. The current use of injunctions seriously impedes free and open collective bargaining. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Court Role, Government Employees, Labor Legislation
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