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Connections Between New Hampshire Superintendents' Leadership Orientations And Their Perceptions Of Selected Issues Associated With Politics In Education, Althea E. Sheaff
Connections Between New Hampshire Superintendents' Leadership Orientations And Their Perceptions Of Selected Issues Associated With Politics In Education, Althea E. Sheaff
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Many Americans, including educational professionals, eschew politics in classrooms, administrative offices, or any interaction with the educational system. The apolitical myth has it roots in the struggle for public schooling by common school crusaders like Horace Mann and Henry Barnard and continuing in the twentieth century with adoption of Frederick Taylor's scientific management principles. Despite commonly held notions of the separateness and distance between politics and education, this study concludes that politics in education is inevitable.
The purpose of the study is to uncover connections between superintendents' leadership orientations and their political behaviors and beliefs using a multiple perspectives approach. …
"Everybody Get Together": The Sixties Counterculture And Public Space, 1964--1967, Jill Katherine Silos
"Everybody Get Together": The Sixties Counterculture And Public Space, 1964--1967, Jill Katherine Silos
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Historians and cultural analysts have traditionally considered the sixties counterculture an apolitical phenomenon by historians and other analysts. Yet concentrated examination of the public activities of the counterculture in San Francisco from 1963 to 1967 reveals that they were engaged in the creation of a public political culture that challenged the power of civil authorities to regulate the uses of parks, streets and sidewalks. In doing so, the counterculture constituted a distinct community with a political agenda.
This thesis is demonstrated through an analysis of the development of an ethos toward public space in the Beat movement and Merry Prankster …