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Bowen, Gail; Adkison, Judith – 1996
Professional-development schools are collaborations between universities and public schools to improve the nation's teaching force. Prospective teachers are assigned to K-12 schools for formal instruction, planned experiences in classrooms, and mentoring from master teachers. This paper presents findings of a qualitative study that described the…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Elementary Education, Institutional Cooperation
Moore, Gary T.; Lackney, Jeffery A. – 1994
This handbook examines the relationship between school buildings and educational performance. Following the introductory chapter, chapter 2 presents findings from empirical studies that have examined the building/performance issue. Research has demonstrated that the physical setting has both direct and mediated effects on prosocial and achievement…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Facilities Planning
Kashti, Yitzhak – 1998
This book examines how boarding schools have influenced their societal contexts. It shows that the view of boarding schools as agencies stabilizing or conserving social status and cultural traditions is not always valid. On the contrary, boarding schools may be educationally integrative and socially innovative, breaking up social structures by…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Case Studies, Change Agents, Elementary Secondary Education
Shin, Hyun-Seok; Reyes, Pedro – 1991
Findings from a study to examine the relationships of both personal and organizational predictors with both managerial commitment and job satisfaction of school administrators are presented in this paper. A total of 99 public school and 77 private school administrators participated in a mailed survey, a 70.4 percent response rate. Multiple…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Cooper, Joanne; Kempner, Ken – 1991
This case study investigated the organizational culture of a community college and how it both contributed to and prevented organizational chaos during a period of change. The study made use of themes from William G. Golding's novel, "Lord of the Flies," to analyze the setting. The period of change started with the arrival of several top…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, College Administration, Community Colleges
Firestone, William A.; Wilson, Bruce L. – 1984
Organizational cultures are systems of publicly and collectively accepted meanings, beliefs, values, and assumptions that a staff uses to guide its actions and interpret its surroundings. In an effort to suggest concrete ways a principal can change or maintain a culture, three important elements of a school culture are discussed: content, symbols,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics

Perkowski, Stefan – International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1974
Treatment practices developed to meet the needs of white children are said not to be adequate for blacks. Differences between the blacks and whites which are said to have a bearing on treatment needs are identified. Program modifications beneficial for black children are suggested. [Available from The Avenue Publishing Company, 18 Park Avenue,…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Emotional Disturbances, Institutional Environment, Institutionalized Persons
Johnson, William L.; Nussbaum, Claire A. – 1987
In the past several years, numerous educational climate instruments and questionnaires have been developed. One such instrument is the Charles F. Kettering (CFK) School Climate Profile, a popular measure of school climate that is widely used to gather data for administrative planning and curriculum revision. The instrument is patterned on the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Factor Analysis
Johnston, A. P.; Hood, Kenneth – 1986
This chapter of "Principles of School Business Management" focuses on issues and organizational realities that affect the planning conducted by school business offices. The chapter deals first with theories of planning and then considers their relationship to the organizational context in which they will be implemented. Among the theories reviewed…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship, Institutional Environment
Rogus, Joseph F.; Yeager, Robert J. – 1987
This booklet guides the development director of a parochial elementary or secondary school in making effective use of time. The booklet's introduction considers the development director's role as a leader and describes four factors rendering this leadership function complex: (1) the conceptual, technical, and human dimensions of the director's…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Catholic Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Shapiro, Arthur – 1983
This paper describes the Tri-Partite Theory of institutional change, which proposes that organizations in general and educational institutions in particular pass through three phases, each dominated by a specific personality type: person-orientation (loyalty to a charismatic leader as the basis of motivation); plan-orientation (functions…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Bureaucracy, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Environment
Rosenbaum, Howard – 1986
This selective, annotated bibliography presents the results of a survey of current literature in several disciplines relating to the theme of information flows and transfer in educational organizations. Created as a preliminary step in an ongoing research project to investigate the formal and informal information processes in a small college…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Environment, Information Networks, Information Science
Louis, Karen Seashore; And Others – 1988
Interest in the relationship of entrepreneurship to organizational performance and validity is widely and increasingly discussed in educational contexts. An examination of academic entrepreneurship is presented in this paper. Five types of entrepreneurship are described, and many questions more directly related to organizational theory are…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Faculty, Economic Opportunities, Entrepreneurship
Tracz, George – 1984
Universities that have been successful in providing computing-intensive environments for their user communities have done so by setting up campuswide task forces on computing strategies. In this report, the principal investigator recommends that a task force on constructing humane computing environments at the Ontario Institute for Studies in…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Educational Policy, Educational Technology
Batten, Margaret; Girling-Butcher, Sue – 1981
In order to test the validity of a measure of Australian students' views on the quality of life within their schools, a small-scale study was conducted in seven secondary schools, including both public and private institutions. The 52-item survey instrument was administered to 651 students in grades 9-12. Followup interviews of students were held…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries