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MacQuarrie, Colleen; Murnaghan, Donna; MacLellan, Debbie – Qualitative Report, 2008
The intervention potential of physical activity programs for intermediate schools (grades 7-9), could be enhanced by an understanding of how students engage with and disengage from physical activity. This study provides an interpretation of how adolescents, parents, teachers, and principals perceive students' involvement in physical activity…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, School Culture, Physical Activity Level, Ideology
Poon-McBrayer,K. F. – Journal of Special Education, 2004
This article examines the policies and implementation of and barriers to integration within the parallel system of general and special education in Hong Kong. The article begins with a discussion of the history, organization, and current status of special education. Then, policies supporting integration and efforts to implement integration are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Resource Allocation, Ideology
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Bates, Richard J. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1987
Argues that organizational control ideologies serving elites are prevalent in schools as well as in corporations. Schools, as meeting places for those in and those out of power, develop complex cultures, which those in power see as "irrational." Illustrates how school cultures incur difficulties because elites define them as…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Elitism, Ideology