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Bridgeforth, Brian W. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2005
The history of academic inquiry into leadership as a discipline has yielded the unintended consequence of compounding confusion and perpetuating the myth of leadership as mystical. This paper takes that acknowledgement and inquires into the past and future of leadership theory development from a systemic perspective to define the concept, propose…
Descriptors: Leadership, Social Attitudes, Misconceptions, Definitions
Baehler, Karen – 1995
This analysis of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (BEA) and its implications for public financing of education and other children's services notes that voters want more and better education and related services, and at the same time want to pay less in taxes and balance budgets at every governmental level. The first section details recent…
Descriptors: Budgets, Child Advocacy, Economic Factors, Educational Economics
Reid, Carol – Australian Journal of Education, 2005
A key feature of contemporary changes in globalisation is the increasing transnational flows of people. Evidence of the way in which these changes are impacting on education in Australia today is found in the presence of its immigrant teachers. Teacher shortages in Australia have led to increasing numbers of immigrant teachers from non-European or…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Cultural Differences, Teacher Shortage, Foreign Countries
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Chiti-Batelli, Andrea – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1986
Warns the European community of the dangers of accepting English as the international language and urges the adoption of Esperanto, a neutral language without its own cultural tradition, as the international lingua franca. (CFM)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, English (Second Language), Imperialism, Language Planning
Grabill, Jeffrey T. – 2001
The community literacy program of Western District Adult Basic Education in Georgia was examined to demonstrate how the meaning and value of literacy is a function of specific local institutions. The goal of the examination was to theorize literacy by constructing a localized framework for understanding literacy within a given institution in order…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
DeBray, Elizabeth; Scott, Janelle; Lubienski, Christopher; Jabbar, Huriya – Educational Policy, 2014
This article develops a framework for investigating research use, using an "advocacy coalition framework" and the concepts of a "supply side" (mainly organizations) and "demand side" (policymakers). Drawing on interview data and documents from New Orleans about the charter school reforms that have developed there…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Interviews, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Tryfan, Barbara – 1972
The role of Polish rural women in the family and in the community is what the African peoples and governments are doing about them. It is stated categorically that a problem does exist. Indicators often used to deny this industralization of agricultural regions, the activity of public organizations, and the development of cultural-educational…
Descriptors: African Culture, Agricultural Occupations, Demography, Employment
Zorkaia, Nataliia – Russian Education and Society, 2009
The hope that young people would accept and quickly learn Western ideas and democratic principles rather than just economic and technological achievements occupied a key place in the conceptions of the liberal and democratic parties in Russia. The possibilities of the modernization of Russian society and its economy were associated directly with…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values
Liang, Peilin – Research in Drama Education, 2012
Since the 1960s and 1970s, theatre artists from around the globe initiated a wave of theatre practice that is commonly known today as People's Theatre or Theatre for Empowerment. Transforming its participants from being mere "spectactors" to "spect-actors" capable of articulating their concerns on-stage, the ultimate goal of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drama, Social Change, Political Attitudes
Longhurst, Robyn – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2011
In New Zealand universities, gender is still not a substantial part of the curriculum in most geography departments. Although at the University of Waikato, the situation is different. Its specific history of radical scholarship has enabled feminist academics in a variety of disciplines including geography to have had a stronger voice than in other…
Descriptors: Feminism, Geography, Foreign Countries, Universities
Karamurzov, B. S. – Russian Education and Society, 2014
The regional universities in Russia are an important resource for the development of Russian society, but more needs to be done to increase their effectiveness, including tackling corruption and leveraging local competitive advantages.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Regional Schools, Universities, Educational Improvement
Robelen, Erik W. – Education Week, 2004
The Department of Education's announcement of new leeway in meeting federal teacher-quality demands was praised as welcome relief by many education leaders. But others, including two pivotal congressional Democrats, charged that the action would lower expectations for teachers in rural communities. Facing widespread complaints about the…
Descriptors: Federal Regulation, State Schools, Science Teachers, Rural Schools
Goldstein, Evan R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
In this article, the author provides the contentions of intellectual historian John Patrick Diggins on the November 2008 elections and the presidential leadership. Diggins observed that "all people spoke about was winning the elections, and no one seemed to be concerned with the problems of the future." Diggins also expressed how he was skeptical…
Descriptors: Elections, Political Attitudes, Political Candidates, Political Issues
"They Want to Erase That Past": Examining Race and Afro-Latin@ Identity with Bilingual Third Graders
Adams, Melissa; Busey, Christopher L. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
The authors describe a month-long unit on Afro-Latin@ identity in which third grade students began with a discussion of complex questions with which many historians, anthropologists, and scholars struggle to make sense. The goal of this month-long unit was to have students adopt the lens of cultural anthropologists as they explored the historical…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Units of Study
Grady, Marilyn L.; LaCost, Barbara Y. – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2005
This article profiles Shirley Chisholm (1924-2205), a 1993 inductee to the National Women's Hall of Fame. Born in New York, she was the oldest of four daughters. Her father was from British Guiana and her mother was from Barbados. In 1927, she was sent to Barbados to live with her maternal grandmother. She was educated in the British school system…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Civil Rights, Feminism