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Kirk, Lynn; And Others – 1985
This handbook explores ways of creating unbiased educational experiences for students in non-stereotyped learning environments for kindergarten to grade 4. An examination is made of the sexual, racial, and cultural biases displayed by textbooks and curricula currently in use, with suggestions offered on how to present these materials in an…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Education, Ethnic Bias
Download full textFlorida State Univ., Tallahassee. – 1983
This unit, one of six which comprise the Fair Play program, is designed to broaden understanding of roles and improve students' abilities to make decisions about roles. The Fair Play program is a series of student and teacher materials the purpose of which is to help students expand their female or male self-concepts, increase their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Decision Making Skills, Instructional Materials, Junior High Schools
Bartell, Carol A.; Willis, David B. – 1987
Guided by interpretive ethnographic methods and by instructional leadership concepts, this comparative study of secondary principals in Japan and America discovers characteristics of excellent principals and examines their values in relation to dominant cultural themes. The investigation applies anthropologist Clifford Goertz's assumptions (1973,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
Navarro, Richard A.; And Others – 1986
This progress report of ethnographic research on instructional leadership focuses on a new elementary school principal's role formation in relation to teaching staff and district organizational culture. The project, which examines the prevailing notion of instructional leadership in school effectiveness literature, reveals a gap in perspective…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Research, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Altschuld, James W.; And Others – 1978
This module attempts to put participants into contact with the limited or stereotyped manner in which most of us view our world. By doing so, it sets the stage for examining ways to bring parents, employers, and school staff to an expanded world view, particularly as that view encourages wider career opportunities for youth. Training in developing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Choice, Career Education, Change Strategies
Baumheier, Edward C.; And Others – 1975
Due to various factors, legal and jurisdictional issues often hinder the administration and delivery of Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS) services on reservations. Focusing on child welfare programs, legal and jurisdictional problems concerning the delivery of SRS services on reservations and the means of coping with them were explored…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Child Welfare
Leggett, Delia C., Comp.; Arce, Carlos H., Comp. – 1978
Compiled primarily from bibliographies and reference lists from books about Chicanos in higher education and the social sciences, the bibliography cites 774 published and unpublished works concerning Chicanos in higher education, written between 1943 and 1978 (primarily the 1970's). Other sources include dissertations, journals, monographs,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Admission, Educational Needs, Educational Opportunities
Edge, David L.; Valentine, Jerry W. – 1981
This study compares the administrative styles of principals of junior high schools with those of middle school principals. It also examines the school climates of these schools and analyzes the relationships between climate and administrative style. The population for the study consisted of 77 teachers from 19 middle schools and 69 teachers from…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Comparative Analysis
Scott, Robert A. – 1978
An examination of the university dean's role and its conflicts and ambiguities considered the type, frequency, nature, and the dynamics of the liberal arts dean's interactions with his faculty and staff and the central administration. Relations with staff and the provost and the dean's role as an individual in an organization are given major…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, College Administration
This booklet contains learning activities to assist students in understanding why people work and in choosing an occupation to match their career goals. Its eight unipacs (or units) require the students to (1) choose among alternative life styles, occupations, and goals and explain their preferences; (2) develop a system of personal value…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Education, Competency Based Education
ANDREWS, WALTER G., SR. – 1963
A STUDY WAS MADE IN NORTH CAROLINA OF ROLE EXPECTATIONS OF SUBJECT MATTER SPECIALISTS AS IDENTIFIED BY 83 WHITE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AGENTS AND 78 WHITE SPECIALISTS. A COMPARISON OF THE AGENTS' CONCEPT OF THE SPECIALISTS' ROLE, AND THE SPECIALISTS' CONCEPT OF THEIR OWN ROLE WAS MADE, AND THE VARIABLES OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE WERE ANALYZED.…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Educational Background
Rush, Wilmer Sherman – 1980
Based on theory and previous research done on the factors that affect student ratings of college instruction, it seems clear that different types of students prefer different types of instructors. The type is apparently a function of naturally occurring needs in the students' personalities and naturally occurring teacher behaviors which student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Faculty, College Instruction, Education Majors
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The nine titles deal with the following topics: (1) small group interaction within effective and ineffective decision making groups; (2) vertical communication as perceived by administrators and teachers; (3) communication roles as…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Communication Research, Decision Making
Shann, Mary H. – 1979
To study internal psychological barriers to women's equity in formerly male education and occupational domains, Matthew's scale of attitudes toward women's roles in society was administered to 294 male and 261 female graduate students pursuing degrees in one of six professional areas, three male-dominated and three traditionally female-dominated.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Careers, Comparative Analysis, Educational Opportunities
Lindborg, Kristina; Ovando, Carlos J. – 1977
Focusing on four Mexican American women from migrant farmworker backgrounds and one woman recently immigrated from Mexico, the study explored the attitudes and experiences of the Mexican American culture considered important by Mexican American migrant women themselves. Extensive open-ended interviews, conducted mostly in the women's homes, were…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Case Studies, Children, Cultural Background
