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Kropiewnicki, Mary I.; Shapiro, Joan P. – 2001
A study explored the ethical framework of care as a leadership attribute in three female principals at an elementary school, a junior high school, and a high school in northeast Pennsylvania. Recent studies of educational administrators reveal that new leadership models and attributes, identified as the ethic of care, are emerging among both male…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Research
Dietrich, Linnea; Hurd, Diane Smith – 1997
This essay examines the ways in which art and art history, as disciplines, have been influenced by feminist scholarship and research into the areas of gender, sexuality, and race. It explains that before the interventions of feminist art historians and theorists of art, beginning in the 1970s, the history of art was conceived of and taught as a…
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Art History, College Curriculum
Kunz, Walter S., Jr. – Educational Facility Planner, 1997
Describes the Youth Art Month exhibit in Howard County (Maryland) where students submitted their art focusing on school buildings and their interiors. Their art reveals concerns and desires about overcrowding, space utilization, school building height, outside lighting, solitude needs, and visual stimulation. The artwork is discussed in terms of…
Descriptors: Art Criticism, Art Expression, Crowding, Educational Facilities
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Thompson, Audrey – Educational Theory, 1997
Discusses the arguments for the refeminization of education in relation to the social problems they address. Reclaiming education for feminization challenges existing approaches to curriculum and pedagogy. Though family values envisioned for caring schools emphasize children's needs, marginalized families may not recognize their own values in…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Family (Sociological Unit), Females
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Hammersley, Martyn – British Educational Research Journal, 1997
Addresses some of the recent criticism aimed at educational research, its failure to provide a sound base for teaching or to generate a cumulative body of knowledge. Answers that there is always a dichotomy between research and application and argues that restrictions would only worsen the situation. (MJP)
Descriptors: Criticism, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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Blumenfeld, Phyllis C.; And Others – Educational Researcher, 1996
Illustrates variations in purposes and types of peer-learning group work in public schools, and details factors that influence the process. Describes new developments in peer learning and collaborative communities, as well as the technology support for collaboration. (GR)
Descriptors: Accountability, Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Criticism
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Kourilsky, Marilyn; And Others – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1996
Researchers examined relationships between generative teaching and elementary student teachers' social maturity, receptivity to criticism, and ability to incorporate criticism, comparing more and less effective subjects. Effective teaching was found to be strongly related to ability to use generative teaching principles and to subjects' social…
Descriptors: Criticism, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education
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Holloway, Elizabeth; Carroll, Michael – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1996
Both the postpositivistic (Ellis, Ladany, Krengel, and Schult, 1996; Ladany, Hill, Corbett, and Nutt, 1996) and interpretive (Neufeldt, Karno, and Nelson, 1996; Worthen and McNeill, 1996) studies in this special section on supervision research are reviewed from the perspective of rigor and relevancy to the critical questions facing educators and…
Descriptors: Adults, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers), Communication Skills, Counselor Educators
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McMurty, John – Canadian Social Studies, 1997
Presents an interesting metaphorical critique of the current enthusiasm for the global market and the free market system. Delineates 10 defining principles of a fundamentalist theological doctrine and then suggests replacing the term "global market" with "Supreme Ruler." Criticizes free market capitalism as being occasionally…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Criticism, Economic Factors, Economic Impact
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Arnold, Michael – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2003
Rural education scholars may be biased advocates of small schools or they may accept the values of the scientific community. An analysis of a rural Pennsylvania district's failure to receive Reading First funding did not provide enough information to determine why the proposal was rejected. The article's arguments about "privatization"…
Descriptors: Bias, Criticism, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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DeCoker, Gary; Ballou, Mercedes – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1990
Demonstrates a procedure for teachers to use when evaluating multicultural books by reviewing two primary-level nonfiction books about Japan. Analyzes the use of photographs and the representation of the culture. Points out that, although nonfiction is valuable when teaching about other cultures, teachers should critically examine such books. (CH)
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Book Reviews, Books, Childrens Literature
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Johnson, Margaret H.; Cooper, Susan L. – Art Education, 1994
Asserts the importance of incorporating art criticism into art instruction to achieve quality art education. Presents and discusses art criticism formats. Includes three figures illustrating a typical student's written art criticism, that same assignment after teacher evaluation, and an example of a student gradebook. (CFR)
Descriptors: Art Criticism, Art Education, Discipline Based Art Education, Educational Strategies
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Anderson, Tom – Studies in Art Education, 1995
Argues that Western civilization's use of formalism in art criticism is hierarchical and eurocentric. Suggests a more anthropological approach in which production of art is considered in the context of its native culture. Recommends emphasizing the human meaning in art over consideration of form or design. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Anthropology, Art Criticism, Art Education
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Knights, Ben – Studies in Higher Education, 1995
Examination of the relationship between academic learning and group relations suggests that the study of each can inform the other. A partnership between the study of group relations and the study of literary theory could give new insights into teaching and learning as discursive practices, power relations in the college classroom, and sources of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Classroom Communication, College Environment
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Schon, Isabel – MultiCultural Review, 1995
Describes several noteworthy books about Latinos that contrast cultures, explain a unique Mexican and Mexican American celebration, explore the debate over illegal immigration, and convey the quandaries of adolescence. Several publications are considered inferior because they disregard the Spanish language and present negative historical…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Book Reviews, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Education
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