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2. The Army Officer as Performance Manager. Professional Paper No. 13-74.
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Human Resources Research Organization, Alexandria, VA. and Fry, John P.
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This paper describes the results of one Army officer's experiment in applying the techniques of psychological research on the job. With a view to developing his subordinates' leadership ability and initiative, and permitting them an active role in managing the battalion, he emphasized particularly the principles of "contingency management" (motivation by incentives), "participative management" (group problem-solving and decision-making), and "performance counseling." Despite some initial resistance by other officers, the experiment paid off in terms of battalion morale, which was rated high, responsiveness, and esprit de corps. Although emphasis was on self-motivation rather than the threat of punishment as a motivating force, there was no breakdown in discipline. Future development and field-testing will be needed to provide additional information for evaluating the use of such leadership techniques in the Army. (Author)
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- 1974
3. Individualizing Administrator Continuing Education. An Occasional Paper.
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CFK, Ltd., Denver, CO. and Brainard, Edward
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This paper is one of a series of vocational papers reporting results of individualized continuing education (ICE) programs for school administrators and school climate improvement programs. It summarizes the practices of some 45 school districts throughout the nation that have actually been operating individualized continuing education programs. Each district is involved in developing its administrator renewal program by focusing on school improvement through improved leadership behavior of school administrators. The essential questions discussed here are those concerning a definition of individualized continuing education, the basic ingredients of such a school district program, processes to be utilized by a school district in organizing and sustaining such a program, and the means by which an individual school administrator might organize his self renewal program. The guidebook is for superintendents, principals, key teachers, professors, coordinators, area superintendents, assistant principals, assistant superintendents, and others interested in self and school improvement processes. It is also designed for school administrators responsible for developing inservice education programs for school district leadership personnel. Although the word "school" is used throughout, the concepts and practices described are equally applicable for educators associated with school district level operating divisions. (Author)
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- 1973
4. Medical Library Institution Building. Papers and Reports No. 15.
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Kentucky, OH, Michigan Regional Medical Library, Detroit, MI. and Pings, Vern M.
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The viability of organizational change depends on the gradual institutionalization of innovations. There has been a history of planned social change in medical library organization. Stress was being felt in that library agencies could not meet user expectations. With the Medical Library Assistance Act, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) was authorized to act as a change agent to forge new organizational relationships for medical document delivery. Regional medical libraries (RML) were to be founded and rationalized into a hierarchical system of resources under NLM's guidance. The Kentucky-Ohio-Michigan Regional Medical Library was the first decentralized RML, its purpose being the establishment of new linkages between existing biomedical libraries for the sharing of resources. Types of linkages vary throughout the three-state region, but the data suggests that new communication channels have been established, and that the RML is supportive of change. (Author/SL)
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- 1974
5. Associative Evaluations: Nominations vs. Ratings. Technical Paper No. 253.
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Army Research Inst. for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Arlington, VA. and Downey, Ronald G.
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Two general methods of associate (peer) evaluations--the rating procedure and the nomination procedure--are most often used. While both techniques produce similar results, the variation in procedure used to obtain the data has limited most direct comparisons. Because of this, the differences between the several methods of making the evaluations have not been adequately explored. In this study, three methods of associate (peer) evaluation--one rating procedure and two nomination procedures--were compared in terms of reliability, interrelationships of techniques, relationships with other leadership measures, and relationships with concurrent performance measures. All three evaluations yielded levels of reliability adequate for use in short-range individual selections; all three methods measured the same individual attributes. The nomination method was suggested as the clear choice for operational use because of the additional benefits of minimal rater resistance, ease of scoring, and simple administration. (Author)
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- 1974
6. The Principal as the School's Climate Leader: A New Role for the Principalship. An Occasional Paper.
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CFK, Ltd., Denver, CO. and Fox, Robert S.
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This paper focuses on the principal's role in developing an improved or humane school environment for learning. It explores the thesis that the principal can be an effective and dynamic climate leader for change, but that he works within a participative process that involves all those who are part of the school environment and some who are not. The authors examine determinants of school climate, the principal's role in creating and maintaining a more positive environment, implementation strategies for a principal to begin improving his own skills toward fulfilling such a leadership role, and techniques for assessing the effectiveness of the approach. (Author/WM)
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- 1971
7. Involving Educators: Six Ideas That Work. An Occasional Paper.
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CFK, Ltd., Denver, CO. and Brainard, Edward
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This paper examines the structure and function of CFK Ltd., an educational foundation devoted to school improvement using humanizing processes. Six ideas were developed to guide the foundation: Encourage potential clientele to determine the Foundation's areas of interest; given identified problem areas, encourage interested school administrators to develop a diversity of selected programs within their school districts; form a national collegial team of educational leaders to foster sharing processes among the school districts and professional-personal relationships among these leaders; encourage this group to determine the Foundation's practices and yearly plan of programs, services, and activities; employ a small staff to serve as a catalyst for this team; and after a period of time, dissolve the Foundation's relationship so that the involved educators can themselves become the catalyst. (Author/WM)
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- 1973
8. The Behavioral Approach to the Study of Politics: An Overview. Occasional Paper No. 3.
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Indiana Univ., Bloomington. High School Curriculum Center in Government. and Rieselbach, Leroy N.
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Prepared by the Indiana University High School Curriculum Center in Government, this paper presents a brief but comprehensive introduction to the main characteristics of a behavioral approach to American politics. The first of four parts sets forth assumptions and requirements implicit in a behavioral approach and elucidates the relationship between science, political science, and political behavior. The second part explains one formulation of a behavioral perspective--the "field approach"--which conceives of the individual as a biological and human entity existing within social and cultural environments. The third part suggests how the field approach can make the political behavior of the American citizen more intelligible by emphasizing the relevance of four factors: political culture, sociology, psychology, and socialization. The fourth part applies the same four categories of the field approach to the behavior of political leaders, both formal and informal. (See TE 499 926 for a description of the Center's experimental course in American political behavior.) (LH)
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- 1969
9. Two Papers on the Student Social Structure at the Pilot School.
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Cambridge Pilot School Program, MA. and Steinberg, Judy
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These studies, conducted at an experimental secondary school which sought to create "community felling" by not separating students by grade or ability, looked at the students' social patterns and groupings and at the impressions which subgroups had of own group and other groups. The first is based on an all-school sociometric questionnaire; the 2nd, on interviews with members of friendship groups that were exposed in the sociometric. It was found that there were some readily identifiable friendship groups, and that they were more homogeneous than diverse, there were many isolates who received no choices at all; there were few cross-sex or cross-grade-level friendship choices; and choices within the Home Groups showed great differences from the choices made in the school at large. There were few cross-race choices. Students in some of the clear-cut friendship groups frequently lacked information about others, had negative feelings towards them, and spoke of groups not identifiable in the sociometric in terms of stereotypic language. Particular efforts were made to minimize differences amongst the individuals within their own groups. (KS)
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- 1971
10. Interaction Patterns of Leaders in Public Schools. An Occasional Paper.
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Yeshiva Univ., New York, NY. Curriculum Research and Development Center in Mental Retardation. and Buchanan, Paul C.
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The major purpose of this literature review is to determine what is known about a) prevailing patterns of interaction between leaders and other adults in public schools and b) conditions under which specific patterns of behavior of leaders are connected with variations in the behavior of other people in the school. A second objective is to find out what patterns of behavior make a difference in the performance of others and under what circumstances such connections between leader behavior and the behavior of others occurs. The literature is reviewed in terms of a network of forces, or of independent conditioning and dependent variables, with student learning considered as the major output or dependent variable. A heuristic model of this network is diagrammed and discussed in the introduction. The literature review is organized into sections on the role of the leader, leader behaviors and characteristics which have impact on others, and conditions affecting leader behavior and its consequences. References are included. Related documents are ED 084 658, SO 006 685, 686 and 688. (Author/KSM)
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- 1971
11. Characteristics of Research on Leadership in Education. An Occasional Paper.
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Yeshiva Univ., New York, NY. Curriculum Research and Development Center in Mental Retardation. and Buchanan, Paul C.
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Any attempt to derive conclusions from the literature regarding leadership in education is limited because much of the literature consists of untested opinion and most empirical studies are based on information from one school or one school district and are thus very limited. Most studies utilize variables that are unique to the particular study and/or are nontheoretical, thus providing little in the way of a framework for integrating findings from different studies. Generally, studies fail in specifying the conditions under which a relationship between variables is tested, thereby running the risk that an actual relationship is undetected; and investigators tend to use perceptions of involved persons rather than observations by a third party as sources of information regarding variables, thus making findings subject to the attitudes or the memory of participants in the organization. In many cases, information regarding both variables is obtained from the same respondents, thus inflating the obtained measure of relationship because of a response set. Finally, the models used for differentiating among behavior patterns provide for limited alternatives and frequently involve one specified behavior (with the only other option being the absence of the one specified), thus running the risk of not differentiating what are actually meaningfully different behaviors. (Author)
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- 1971
12. 'The Scholar Practitioner.' A Collection of Papers.
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Illinois Univ., Urbana. and Litwak, Eugene
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A 3-week inservice program for 19 midcareer school administrators was held at the University of Illinois during the 1969-1970 academic year. The basic project purpose was to establish a linkage of mutual respect and common interests between practicing administrators and university scholars in related fields of study. Topics covered in this collection include: (1) school community linkages, (2) professional and school roles, (3) day-care centers, (4) state aid, (5) PPBS and organizational change, (6) professional negotiations, (7) staff involvement, (8) differentiated staffing, (9) pupil personnel, (10) special programs for students unable to adjust to regular programs, (11) administrator inservice programs, (12) long-range planning, and (13) school desegregation. A list of program participants and their addresses is appended. A related document is EA 003 179. (Map on page 268 may reproduce poorly because of marginal legibility.) (LLR)
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- 1970
13. Leadership and Social Exchange. Professional Paper 17-72.
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Human Resources Research Organization, Alexandria, VA. and Jacobs, T. O.
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This paper presents a definition of leadership in relation to power and authority and in terms of the impact of various types of influence attempts in formal organizations. The actions and reactions of superordinates and subordinates occur in terms of cultural values, group norms, and social responses derived from the social learning processes. Leadership is a type of role behavior that is learned and executed better by some than by others, depending on the resources that they can apply to the attainment of group goals. Social exchange theory seems to provide a useful framework for analysis of the impact of superordinate influence attempts. (Author)
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- 1972
14. Historical Background of Outdoor Education. Taft Campus Occasional Paper No. 17.
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Northern Illinois Univ., Oregon. Larado Taft Field Campus. Dept. of Outdoor Teacher Education. and Hammerman, Donald R.
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Although there were camps for children as early as 1861, it was not until the post-depression era that professional educators gave serious consideration to the educational values of camping. By the late thirties school camping was beginning to find a foothold in various sections of the country and during the forties this movement continued to expand. Three school camping projects contributed significantly to the initial development of outdoor education. The Battle Creek, Michigan school camping program exerted widespread philosophical influence and provided a training ground for outdoor education leaders. The New York City Camping Education Experiment provided a basis for evaluating some of the outcomes of outdoor education. The Tyler, Texas Outdoor Laboratory established a pattern for school and community cooperation in developing a desired educational program. Among the pioneers of the development of outdoor education were L. B. Sharp, George W. Donaldson, and Julian Smith. The three stand out as the prime movers in outdoor education. Early outdoor teacher education ventures were the New York Teacher's Outdoor Education Institute, the George Peabody College for Teacher's Experiment, the Brockport (New York) University Teacher's College Course, the New Jersey State School of Conservation, and outdoor teacher education at Northern Illinois University. Historically significant developments include the formation of the Outdoor Education Association, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and the development of environmental education. (DS)
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- 1974
15. The Chautauqua Papers: A Dissent. Chautauqua '74: The Remaking of the Principalship
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Myers, Donald A.
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The principal is a functionary rather than a leader. Principals can become more effective in their positions through understanding their roles in the authority structure of the school. (Author/WM)
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- 1974
16. On Mao Tse-tung: A Bibliographic Guide. East Asia Series, Occasional Paper No. 2.
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Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Asian Studies Center., Shu, Austin C. W., Shu, Austin C. W., and Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Asian Studies Center.
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This bibliography is a selected reference source on the life, politics, philosophy, and works of Mao Tse-tung. It contains 800 documents in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages that were selected from monographs and journal articles. Most of the entries pertain to Mao's role after 1949 when he emerged as the new leader in Mainland China. The guide follows the major events of the postwar movements of Mao's new China as evidenced in the writings of Western and Eastern scholars and political analysis. All the materials are divided under four main categories: life, politics, thought, and works. Items under the politics category are further subdivided under topics such as administration, guerrilla warfare, party work, and power seizure. Materials are listed alphabetically by author within each section. Each entry includes the author if any, title and its translation if in a non-Western language, place of publication, publisher, imprint date, and pagination. An author cross-index is provided. (Author/ND)
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- 1972
17. The School as a Political System.
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Gillespie, Judith A. and Ehman, Lee H.
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A theoretical framework for mapping school political life is developed which distinguishes elite, bureaucratic, coalitional, and participant types of school political organizations. The framework provides tools for analyzing and comparing patterns of political behavior within and across school political behavior settings. Definitions and conceptual dimensional analyses are discussed for seven school political phenomena: political influence, wealth, ideology, decision-making, leadership, participation, and communication. An analysis which arrays expected patterns of these political phenomena across school political organization types links the concepts under study. Finally, implications are drawn from the theoretical framework for the empirical study of school political life and suggestions are made for the use of the perceptions gained from the study. (Author/JH)
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- 1974
18. Guide to Excellence for Physical Education in Colleges and Universities. A Position Paper
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- 1971
19. Task and Socio-Emotional Leadership in Ongoing Groups: A Theoretical Perspective.
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Quiggins, James G. and Lashbrook, William B.
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The purpose of this paper was to measure small groups at various stages of their development and observe the effects of changes in group process on emergence of role types and the impact these roles have on group membership as a whole. Most small group measuring instruments have been built around a task-leader or socio-emotional leader dichotomy. Lack of consistent direct relationship between the influence of individual members of the group and their position in the group suggests that an understanding of group leadership and power cannot be gained solely from a functional approach in a social influence perspective. The propositions and hypotheses of this paper are concerned with the general power a leader in a group holds over the membership throughout the group's life span. Proana 5 computer simulation was used to demonstrate the theoretical considerations of this paper in terms of small group interaction, providing a possible description of the interaction of on-going groups. (Author/LG)
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- 1972
20. The Preparation of Mathematics Teacher Educators.
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Illinois Univ., Urbana. Coll. of Education. and Travers, Kenneth J.
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Included are papers presented at the 1969 University of Illinois Colloquium on the Preparation of Teacher Educators in Mathematics. The first paper, "On the Preparation of the Teacher of Teachers" by B. Othanel Smith, examines the prominence of research in the teacher training programs. The second, "Source and Supply of Leadership in Mathematics Education" by Howard F. Fehr, discusses the characteristics of leaders and the tasks of future leaders in mathematics education. The last, "Preparation for Effective Mathematics Teaching in the Inner City" by Irwin K. Feinstein, outlines what should be the mathematical and professional background of those teachers working with inner city children. Following each of these three papers are two response papers written by other mathematics educators. (RS)
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- 1970
21. Proceedings: Small Schools Invitational Conference (Montgomery Bell State Park [Tennessee], November 29-30, 1973).
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Tennessee Univ., Knoxville. Coll. of Education. and O'Fallon, O. K.
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The Invitational Small Schools Conference, held November 1973 in Tennessee, was the starting point in launching the Small Schools Task Force. The primary objectives of this task force are to identify needs and priorities of small schools in Tennessee, to provide leadership for the development of pre- and inservice education programs for small school personnel, and to generate research related to the small school. These objectives were especially aimed at 96 small school districts in Tennessee which in all likelihood need assistance they are currently not receiving. The Task Force Position Paper, the first presented at the conference, gave purposes, needs, and strategies. The second paper, Strengths and Weaknesses of Small Schools, included practices, programs, and administrator considerations. Other presentations were: Political Realities; The Economic Picture; The Educational Scene; Social Values in Rural Tennessee; Demographic Considerations; Health Conditions and Services; and The Development of Rural Education: The State of the Art. The Conference Summary presented participant views of the discussions. Persons attending the conference were also listed. The Appendix gave characteristics of the model innovative and rural futures development processes. (KM)
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- 1974
22. Academic Leadership: Of What or Of Whom?
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Academy for Educational Development, Inc., Washington, DC. Management Div. and Benezet, Louis T.
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What is left for leadership in higher education beyond the processing and administration of management systems? Beyond the leadership of communication lies the leadership of ideas of what the university ought to try to do if it wants to be more than a training station or cultural ornament. The author's prescription for leadership has three parts. The first is that the leader needs to guide himself in terms of the best he can be as a person of reflection and originality. Second, the educational leader should be more knowledgeable than his faculty and his fellow administrators about what is going on in higher education. Third, the administrative leader, if he would lead, needs to spend most of his time studying and releasing the potentialities of the human beings with whom he is working. Planning is nothing more or less than the willingness to think out what is most important to do in education. (Author/PG)
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- 1974
23. Implications of Career Education for University Personnel in Graduate Teacher Education.
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Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Center for Vocational and Technical Education.
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In view of the facts that career education has entered the threshold of the educational system and that relatively little has been done beyond some preliminary planning at the graduate teacher education level, a workshop was conducted addressing the problem of student, planning, and implementation needs of career education and their implications for graduate teacher education personnel. The graduate level was chosen because, though it is a small facet of the educational system, it is an important and influential leadership area within the system. The report on the national workshop: provides a record of participant recommendations and suggestions regarding career education personnel development, relates the career education concepts, needs, and problems for leadership personnel in graduate teacher education, and provides a reference resource to leadership education personnel at all levels. Workshop discussion centered on papers presented by Louise Keller, Terrel Bell, and Grant Venn. Abstracts of the papers are included in the report together with criticisms, questions, and summaries. Materials relating to the workshop's organization and the full text of the papers are appended in the final three-fifths of the document. (Author/AG)
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- 1974
24. Accountability Begins at the Top.
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Bell, T. H.
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The U.S. Commissioner of Education concedes that his powers in many areas are merely powers of persuasion. However, he sees his role as that of needler, of constructive critic of American education at all levels and in all facets of performance. The Education Commission of the States was created to recommend basic policies and to advocate a broad framework within which excellence in education can flourish. The commissioner lists 10 State level policy, planning, and priority-getting deficiencies urgently in need of attention. ECS has done its work. Implementation is now up to the State legislatures, the governors, the chief State school officers, and the State leadership bodies in higher education. (Author/WM)
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- 1974
25. Leadership Development in Vocational Education.
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Wenrich, Ralph C.
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Although much of leadership research has been done in social or human organizations other than schools, it can be applied to educational institutions and to vocational education. Both the individual dimensions of leadership (psychological) and the group or organizational dimensions of leadership (sociological) must be considered, and also the interaction between the two. Implicit in most leadership research has been the idea that the effective leader is high in both initiating structure (goal achievement) and consideration (group maintenance) behaviors. The vocational teacher of the future must become more competent in organizing and directing the learning environment and in using educational technology, and the teacher must have many of the same leadership skills and competencies needed by administrators and supervisors. There is considerable evidence to support the idea that the quality of local programs of vocational and technical education is dependent on competent administrative leadership. The Federal leadership role in vocational education over the years has shifted now to the State and local level, and often the new breed of local administrator needs to assume the role of change agent in his schools and communities. (EA)
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- 1974
26. Leadership and Loyalty: The Basic Value Dilemmas of the Educational Administrator in the 70's.
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Coleman, Peter
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Many educational decisions are made on issues over which conflict occurs because of value differences among the groups involved. The decision-making model proposed here is a political or conflict model. It defines an organization as stable patterns of interactions between coalitions of groups having a collective identity and pursuing interests and accomplishing tasks, coordinated through a system of authority. The main value dilemmas faced by educational administrators focus on what constitutes leadership and on who commands the loyalty of the administrator. Leadership value conflicts center on developing commitment to organizational goals, reconciling personal and group goals, delegating responsibility and authority rather than abdicating them, continuing a concern with organizational improvement rather than with mere survival, making decisions, and being both task-oriented and considerate. Loyalty--the most difficult, testing, and potentially damaging dilemma--involves three subissues: (1) professional loyalty conflicts between colleagues, collegial standards, and organizational standards and expectations; (2) intraprofessional and interprofessional conflicts; and (3) conflicts between professionals and laymen, and conflicts arising out of political disputes within and between communities and their elected representatives, the trustees. (Author/IRT)
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- 1974
27. [Report of the National Indian Education Conference (1st, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 20-21, 1969).]
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Upper Midwest Regional Educational Lab., Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.
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Included in this packet sent to participants of the First National (American) Indian Education Conference (held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 20-21, 1969) are: summaries; statements; points of interest; recommendations or resolutions given to the Planning Committee by each workshop chairman; and an evaluation form. Each workshop report is presented separately under the headings of "Objectives of the Participants" and/or "Recommendations". Reports are presented for the following workshops: (1) Community Control/Parent Participation; (2) Special Programs; (3) School Administration: A Leadership Calling for Indian Educators; (4) College Students: Indian Students Today, Indian Leaders Tomorrow; (5) Book Evaluation; (6) Public Schools for Indian Youth: Passport to Prosperity or Destiny for a Drop-out; (7) Speak-Out: Forum for Expression of Ideas by Indian People; (8) Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA); BIA Schools, Problems, and Solutions; (9) Vocational Education: The Choice is There; (10) Indian Teachers for Indian Children; (11) Indian Education in Correctional Institutions; (12) Curriculum: Does American Indian Heritage Hold Its Proper Place within the Schools?; (13) A New Approach to Indian Education: Project Red Lake Seven; (14) University and Indian Education; (15) Indian Values: Where in Indian Education. (JC)
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- 1969
28. The Performance of Learning Tasks by the Church Session: Implications from the Literature on Leadership and the Group Task.
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Sparks, James Allen
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The parish administrative board--the Session--is an interactional group according to the operational definition as advanced by Gibb, Proshansky and Seidenberg. As a group it shares relatively common religious and moral values, as well as institutional goals. The perimeters of the Session's group life are clearly, if not legalistically, defined by the constitution of the United Presbyterian Church. Prescriptions for study are not so clearly spelled out, although the Session's willingness to study is assumed by the national church boards and agencies. Does the minister's style of leadership and the Session's task-orientation effect the board's functioning as a learning group? In this paper, an effort is made to find answers to some of these questions from the literature of small group research. Two hypotheses were advanced: (1) Administrative groups are differentiated from learning groups primarily by styles of leadership and group tasks and goals; and (2) Administrative groups in the church can become more effective at learning tasks by an educationally oriented and flexible leadership style of minister behavior and a commitment to study as well as to problem-solving and administration. The major conclusion of this paper is that an administrative group who perceives its work to be decision-making may not engage readily in other tasks, unless it, as a group, accepts such tasks and makes a commitment to them. (Author/CK)
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- 1971
29. What Do We Know About Leadership?
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Scott, W. Wayne and Spaulding, Lloyd F.
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Although many authors have spoken to the concept of leadership, basic predictive theory has eluded all who attempt to define it. This paper undertakes to conclude inductive principles suggested within published leadership literature of an experimental design. A thorough review of this intangible, leadership, was undertaken from papers indexed in the Education Index (1959-1969) and in Research in Education (1966-1969). A spectrum of these leadership theories is discussed. (Author)
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- 1972
30. A Theoretical and Methodological Evaluation of Leadership Research.
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Lashbrook, Velma J. and Lashbrook, William B.
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This paper isolates some of the strengths and weaknesses of leadership research by evaluating it from both a theoretical and methodological perspective. The seven theories or approaches examined are: great man, trait, situational, style, functional, social influence, and interaction positions. General theoretical, conceptual, and measurement issues are considered as they relate to methodology. If theoretical and methodological improvements are made, the study concludes, leadership research can make a significant contribution to our accumulation of knowledge concerning small groups. (Author)
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- 1972
31. Characteristics of Local Organizations and Service Agencies Conductive to Development: With Special Reference to Farmers' Organizations.
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Solomon, Darwin D.
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An attempt to formulate a more global but functional framework for analyzing local organizations as mechanisms for citizen participation in development is presented in this paper. Both the review of the literature and the prescriptive guides to action are presented under the following headings: membership and leadership, management of alienation and grouplessness, access to training and education, channels for communication of innovations and change, mechanisms to mobilize resources, access to markets, access to power and influence, and other linkages and levels of organization. Major recommendations are that agricultural leaders should have some social science training, that participation analysis should be used in assessing the role of the local organization in the continuous integration of community members into a modernizing society, that studies of farmers' organizations as information and development promoting systems should also analyze the skill and learning aspects, that attention should be paid to the roles of economic and social information in developing effective communications channels, that attention should be given to the role of agrarian reform in the mobilization of human energies, that there must be adequate market access and more access to power and influence, and that additional levels of organization should be created. (PS)
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- 1972
32. Impacts of Educational Change Efforts in Appalachia.
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM., Donohew, Lewis, and Parker, Joanne M.
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The purpose of this document was to gather information on the effects of recent developments and improvements in educational programs in Appalachia. The presentation is primarily intended for teachers, administrators, members of school boards of education, and others involved in educational projects in the Appalachian region. The paper focuses on all kinds of efforts put forth to educate people of Appalachia, not just efforts of formal educational systems. Organization of the paper follows a model of change in which the authors discuss the Appalachian setting and inputs for change which have been introduced and then attempt to assess the impact of various programs of the life-styles of individuals and on the institutional structures. Notes and a reference list are included. (AN)
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- 1970
33. New Dimensions in School Board Leadership; A Seminar Report and Workbook (Chicago, Illinois, July 9-12, 1969).
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National School Boards Association, Washington, DC. and Dickinson, William E.
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A 4-day seminar, funded by ESEA Title III, studied the appropriate role of the American school board in the present climate of change, and the future role of the school board. Educational authorities were asked to prepare position papers for the seminar and persons with experience at the local board level were invited to respond candidly to all seminar presentations. Part I of this report contains six papers prepared for the seminar, covering such topics as problems of decentralization, fiscal policies, urban schools, and school board leadership. Eight broad ideas on new requirements for effective leadership are offered for consideration by the educational leadership community. Part II is a workbook that provides topics and quotations for further discussion. (MF)
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- 1969
34. A Model for Co-Therapy in Groups.
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American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. and Harren, Vincent A.
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The thesis of this paper is that the group therapy process is enhanced by the use of two or more therapists in the group. The three main roles in a group are: (1) facilitator, (2) focal member, and (3) observer. The use of an additional therapist affords the opportunity for therapists to assume the focal member role without loss of group control, that is without clients assuming the facilitator role defensively. Further advantages include: (1) the focus of authority is distributed over the several therapists, making it easier for each to participate as a real person, (2) group therapy trainees can participate without the full responsibility for the group and freely assume all three roles, (3) therapists who are present can observe the group interaction for research purposes and during post session analysis, check out their "inter-judge reliability," and (4) therapists of different orientations and styles can interact to their mutual enlightenment and individual clients can find, from among the available therapists, the one with whom each can communicate most effectively. (Author/KJ)
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- 1969
35. The Changing University; A Report on the Seventh Annual Leadership Conference.
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Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, Brookline, MA. and Daigneault, George H.
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This publication presents the papers which were given at the Seventh Annual Leadership Conference for Association of University Evening College officers and committee chairmen and National University Extension Association officers. A summary of the discussion which followed is also provided. Each speaker emphasized the marginal nature of adult education activities of the university and suggested that the university image includes evening college and extension activities, if at all, as a public or community relations adjunct or as a method of securing additional financing. The papers also, however, suggest ways in which adult education can be made an increasingly central concern and responsibility of the university. (se)
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- 1959
36. An Analysis of Relationships Between Perceived Leader Behavior of Elementary School Principals and Organizational Processes of Schools.
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Feitler, Fred C. and Long, John V.
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This paper discusses results of multiple regression analysis and prediction of certain perceived leader behaviors given measures of organizational characteristics. The "Profile of a School" was used with the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire, Form XII. Results indicate that significant proportions of variance in leader behavior subscales are accounted for by particular organizational processes. Conclusions regarding leader behavior can be made from measures of organizational characteristics. These results support the assumption that leader behavior and organizational processes are interrelated. The operational properties of the measures used provide information for generating research and developing organizational change strategies. (Appendix C may reproduce poorly.) (Author/LLR)
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- 1971
37. Professional and Paraprofessional Role Differentiation.
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Tennant, Christine S. and Longest, James W.
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This paper focuses on role relationships and role conflicts between professionals and paraprofessionals and their potential effect on the efficiency of future social services. Role conflicts can develop when roles are undefined and when there are competitive versus complementary role relationships. The most productive way to approach role definition is the systems approach--determine the overall purpose of the agency; defint this purpose in terms of specific objectives needed; and identify the various methods, personnel, and facilities needed to meet these objectives. Agency activities can be subdivided into: (1) task functions (program design, work facilitation, and goal emphasis), and (2) maintenance functions (support, interaction facilitation, and communication facilitation). There are roles within each of these functions that can be taken by both professionals and paraprofessionals, but the greatest contribution the paraprofessional can make is in closing the cultural gap between professional and client group and in setting a role model for the community. (EB)
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- 1970
38. Proceedings of the Conference of the American Country Life Association, Inc. (46th, Iowa State University, Ames, July 11-12). Achieving Quality Life in the Countryside.
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American Country Life Association, Sioux Falls, SD.
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Individual papers on quality life in the countryside were presented at the American Country Life Association, (ACLA) Inc., conference. The presidential address, "Quality Life in the Countryside--How Can It Be Achieved? described significant trends which are developing in rural areas. Other major topics covered in the papers included conflicts in values, problems and opportunities of leadership, economic foundations, government services, social organization, cultural foundations, the role of universities and colleges, methods to meet health care needs, and the evaluation of multi-county planning and development. Also included is an ACLA 1967 membership list, minutes of business meetings, reports of the Task Force, and financial reports. (PS)
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- 1967
39. Proceedings: Town and Country Church Institute (38th, Urbana, Illinois, January 29-31, 1968). The Church and Community Development.
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Illinois Univ., Urbana. Cooperative Extension Service. and Pryor, Thomas M.
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This thirty-eighth inservice training conference for clergymen and lay leaders in the rural areas of Illinois focuses on providing information in order that rural clergy might have a better basis for an understanding of the context of the rural community, of current developments and trends taking place, of the impact of these trends on people and organizations, and the implications of these trends for organizations and agencies which serve the community. "Church Or Museum" was the opening topic. The theme for the first session was "Implications of Cultural and Socio-Economic Change" and included papers on "The Individual in a Changing World" and "Implications for the Church." The theme for the second session was "Implications of Change in Technology and Communication" and included papers on "Business and Industrial Developments in Illinois,""Developments in Agribusiness,""Developments as Viewed by a Labor Representative," and "Developments as Viewed by an Industrialist.""The Changing Educational Scene in Illinois,""The Development of Junior Colleges," and "The Growth of Town and Country Church Work in Illinois" were topics included under the third heading, "Implications of the Changing Educational Climate." (HBC)
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- 1968
40. The Forgotten American. The President's Message to the Congress on Goals and Programs for American Indians (March 6, 1968).
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Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC. and Johnson, Lyndon B.
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Emphasizing the need for a Federal-Indian partnership which promotes Indian self-help and Indian respect, this speech proposes: strengthened Federal leadership via a National Council on Indian Opportunity; Indian involvement in the determination of Indian problems and needs; enrollment of all Indian Children in a preschool program by 1971; funds to make the Head Start Program available to 10,000 Indian children; establishment of kindergartens for 4,500 Indian children by September of 1969; appropriations of $5.5 million for hiring Federal Indian school teachers and $3 million for 1969 college scholarship grants; an increase of 10% in the Indian health program; a 50% increase in the Indian Vocational Training Program; an amendment to the Federal Highway Act increasing authorization for Indian road construction to $30 million annually; an annual increase of 1,000 units in Indian home construction; increases in appropriations for broad home improvements, safe water and sanitary facilities, and community action programs; enactment of the Indian Bill of Rights, the Alaska Native Claims Act, and the Indian Resources Development Act. (JC)
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- 1968
41. Militancy and Leadership in the National Education Association, 1959-1969.
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Nasstrom, Roy R.
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Critics of the National Education Association (NEA) have often charged that it has been dominated by school and college administrators and, therefore, has failed to reflect adequately the views of teachers, who constitute the vast majority of its membership. However, the growing militance of the NEA during the 1960's would make paradoxical the continuance of administrators in influential leadership positions. Consequently, several major constituent bodies of the association were investigated from 1959 to 1970. The study has sought to discover whether--and if so, when, why, and to what extent--the composition of these bodies reflected a change in the number of administrators, in the number of nonadministrative professional school personnel, and in the number of teachers alone. The study reports the exact number of school administrators and classroom teachers in positions of authority in the NEA during the period of the organization's major ideological transformation. It clearly shows the decline of administrators' dominance and the attitudes of the majority of members toward such dominance. (Author/MLF)
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- 1970
42. Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1893-94. Volume 2. Containing Parts II and III
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Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED)
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Influential historic documents in American education are presented in Chapter I, including legislation, land grants for common schools and universities and for agricultural and mechanical colleges, Bureau of Education role, early discussion on establishing a national university, and state constitutions' education provisions. Also included are the report of the Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies and related papers in Chapter II, and a section on the National Education Association's (NEA) history, organization, and function in Chapter III. A catalogue of NEA papers and addresses since founding is included. Character of and facilities for negro education is addressed in Chapter IV, covering cost, the largely elementary nature of negro education, increasing attention to industrial education, negro education's teaching force, professional training, and institutional statistics for 1892-93. Chapter V covers pecuniary aid for university and college students in U.S. colleges, universities, and women's colleges; English universities; France, and Germany. Chapter VI discusses university extension programs. Chapter VII concerns medical education, including raising its standards, course, lengthening, clinical instruction, students with degrees, women in medicine, higher medical education, and German and American medical students. Education condition in 17 states, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii is covered in discussion and data. A list of notable deaths during the year in the education field is included. Statistical tables cover: school population, attendance, instruction, leadership, and facilities in cities with upwards of 8,000 population; public school receipts and expenditures for those cities; cities with unavailable school data; public high schools; endowed academies, seminaries, and other private secondary schools; universities and colleges; Division A and B women's colleges; agricultural and mechanical colleges; agricultural and mechanical colleges for colored students; receipts and expenditures of funds benefitting colored students in agricultural and mechanical colleges; scientific schools and technology institutes; schools of theology, law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and nursing; public and private normal schools; university and college normal students; commercial and business colleges; state institutions for the deaf; public day and private schools for the deaf; state institutions for the blind; state institutions and private schools for the feeble-minded; reform schools; and foreign countries' public elementary education. [For "Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1893-94. Volume 1. Containing Part I," see ED622073.]
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- 1896
43. A Manual of Outdoor Education.
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Camp Speers-Eljabar YMCA, Westfield, NJ. and Miller, Rex A.
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Within the realm of outdoor education, there are as many definitions of what it is or what it isn't as there are books. One definition is that outdoor education is teaching outside the classroom. It combines with and blends as part of the total curriculum. This handbook is designed as a manual to help train and support staff related to outdoor education programs. Although it is specifically oriented toward resident outdoor education programs, most of the material has been generalized and can easily be used by a school or resident center in developing an approach to outdoor education. The handbook includes: (1) discussions of sensory awareness, discovery learning, group dynamics and leadership, and the three-legged stool of group function styles of leadership; (2) lesson units for teaching creative arts, language arts, natural science, math, physical education and recreation, and social science; and (3) samples of forms, lists, and evaluations, i.e., letter to parents, equipment list, health form, permission slip form, a daily program schedule, camp rules and regulations, dining room procedure (family style feeding), school menu list, activity sign-up sheets, student instructors' responsibilities and camp contract, and parent on-site evaluation. A 20-item bibliography on theories and practices of outdoor education is included. (NQ)
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- 1974
44. Leadership and the Life Experience.
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Roberts, Francis J.
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This paper discusses the experience of living and what that means to the development of leadership. The author feels that although childhood is a critical time for the development of leadership qualities, the developmental process is lifelong and does not end with adolescence. Therefore, to raise the leadership potential in society we must work toward enhancing the context in which a child becomes of age and also look to the conditions under which the adult life proceeds. Education for leadership at any level means an education in which life is not just learned about but is fully experienced, closely examined, and deeply felt. The author makes several suggestions for accomplishing this education for leadership. (DDO)
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- 1973
45. Ferment and Momentum in Teacher Education. 15th Annual Charles W. Hunt Lecture.
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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Washington, DC. and Lindsey, Margaret
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This paper identifies salient features of scholarship and statesmanship that are required to bring about constructive momentum from the ferment in which today's teacher educators are operating. After brief comments on the nature of the ferment found in the general environment, the ferment in teacher education is illustrated through two examples. The foci selected for discussion are (a) one attempt to enhance the quality of teacher education and (b) the current struggle for power and control in the field of teacher education. In each case, a look at alternative ways teacher educators interact with the fast-moving elements in the ferment leads to recommendations about scholarship and statesmanship that could bring about constructive momentum. (Author)
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- 1974
46. A Study of Student Affairs: The Principal Student Affairs Officer, the Functions, the Organization at American Colleges and Universities 1967-1972. A Preliminary Summary Report. Technical Report No. 3.
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Crookston, Burns B. and Atkyns, Glenn C.
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This is a preliminary report of a major research project to study the changes in leadership, organization, and function that took place in the student affairs sector of American higher education during the period 1967-1972. The report is presented in summary fashion with emphasis on the survey, the principal student affairs officer, organizational patterns, and functions in student affairs. Appendixes include the rational and research design, types of student affairs organizations, and detail of functions and those responsible. Statistical data are presented. (MJM)
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- 1974
47. The Proceedings of the North American Conference on Outdoor Pursuits in Higher Education (1st, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, February 10-13, 1974).
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Appalachian State Univ., Boone, NC., Outward Bound, Inc., Greenwich, CT., and Smathers, Keener
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In February of 1974, 135 representatives of 40 colleges and universities from the U.S. and Canada met for the first time to share experiences and programs relative to experimental outdoor education, and these conference proceedings contain the 7 major addresses and a condensed sampling of other presentations from individual college programs. Conference aims were described as developing ways and means for beginning experimental education programs; elevating the reputation of experimental education in academic circles; paving the way for Outward Bound credit courses; and developing a national outdoor experimental education organization. Papers focused on means, ends, measurement, and finance of outdoor experimental education programs. Means emphasized were: (1) environment contrast; (2) physical activity; (3) the intentional use of stress; (4) a small group context; and (5) the employment of newly acquired knowledge and skills. Major goals were identified as (1) enhancing self-concepts; (2) understanding the self, with special emphasis on identification of strengths; (3) reorientation toward aesthetic appreciation and environmental awareness; (4) an understanding of leadership, the use of authority and followership; and (5) internalization. (JC)
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- 1974
48. SOME PERCEPTIONS OF EXECUTIVE PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP.
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Houston Univ., TX. Bureau of Educational Research and Services. and FEARNING, J.L
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THIRTY-TWO ITEMS OF BEHAVIOR CONSIDERED CRUCIAL TO SUCCESS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STAFF RELATIONSHIPS WERE USED TO DETERMINE THE PERCEPTIONS OF THE FACULTY AND PRINCIPAL OF SIX SCHOOL STAFFS IN A DISTRICT OF 40,000 RELATIVE TO (1) THE IMPORTANCE THE FACULTY ATTACHED TO SOME OF THE PRINCIPALS' ACTIONS, (2) THE STAFF'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE VALUE HE PLACED ON THESE BEHAVIORS, AND (3) THE SEIMILARITY OF BOTH VALUES. EACH PRINCIPAL AND TEACHER WAS ASKED FIRST TO Q-SORT THE BEHAVIORS INTO SIX CATEGORIES, AND SECOND TO ASSESS THE BEHAVIORS HE BELIEVED THE OTHER VALUED. THE RESULTING FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS ILLUSTRATED THAT (1) THE PRINCIPAL INFREQUENTLY PERCEIVED FACULTY VALUES, (2) THE STAFF INFREQUENTLY PERCEIVED THE PRINCIPAL'S VALUES, AND (3) THE STAFF AND PRINCIPAL HELD DISSIMILAR PERCEPTIONS ON TWO-THIRDS OF THE ITEMS. THUS, EITHER ACCURACY OF INTERPERSONAL PERCEPTION IS NOT ESSENTIAL TO SCHOOL PRODUCTIVITY OR THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAS A POTENTIAL FOR INCREASED EFFECTIVENESS BY IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF INTERPERSONAL PERCEPTIONS. THIS PAPER WAS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (35TH SESSION, CHICAGO, 1965) AND APPEARS IN "EDUCATIONAL FACTS," VOLUME 4, NUMBER 3. (JB)
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- 1965
49. Participative Goal-Setting: A Synthesis of Individual and Institutional Purpose.
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Baker, George A. and Brownell, Richard L.
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"Goal-Setting for Organizational Accountability: A Leadership Strategy" (GOALS) is a program designed by the National Laboratory for Higher Education to provide a realistic strategy for integrating the people and purpose of 2-year colleges. The development of the GOALS product is accomplished in two steps: (1) identifying and classifying appropriate goals statements and (2) devising a strategy to achieve goal consensus and set goal priorities. Three types of goals identified were: (1) overall purpose goals, gleaned from publicly stated roles and college philosophies; (2) instructional goals which define desired college outputs; and (3) management support goals, which are statements of desired administrative ends. The strategy used to achieve consensus involves participation of a representative sampling of the entire college community. Participants in a workshop rank order goals in three stages: the first and last stages using individual judgments, and the middle stage requiring consensus by heterogeneous teams (students, teachers, administrators, and citizens). The program, which has been tested in several community college environments, allows for a realistic examination of goals, utilizing both participation and consensus. (RN)
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- 1972
50. COMMUNITY POWER STRUCTURE AND EDUCATIONAL DECISION-MAKING IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.
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Oregon Univ., Eugene. and PELLEGRIN, ROLAND J.
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THE MINORITY OF PEOPLE WHO OCCUPY THE TOP LEADERSHIP LEVEL IN COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES WERE DISCUSSED IN THIS PAPER. VARIOUS CONCEPTS OF THE COMMUNITY POWER STRUCTURE WERE REVIEWED, AND SOME RESEARCH FINDINGS WERE REPORTED ON A COMPARATIVE STUDY CONDUCTED IN THE POWER STRUCTURES OF THREE COMMUNITIES. FOUR ACTIVITY AREAS WERE STUDIED FOR EACH COMMUNITY--ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC EDUCATION, AND PUBLIC RECREATION. DESCRIPTIONS OF THE POWER STRUCTURES OF EACH COMMUNITY WERE PRESENTED. (RS)
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- 1965
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