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Facing The Music: Student Power Relations In Student Leadership Within High School Band Programs, Curtis James Melton
Facing The Music: Student Power Relations In Student Leadership Within High School Band Programs, Curtis James Melton
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Bullying among children in our nation's schools has gripped the nation's collective interest, leading to grief, anger, and inquisition. Recent headlines suggest that the public is asking why bullying is taking place among our youth, so much so that it is costing children their lives. Recent teen deaths have swept the airwaves and headlines in the last two to three years, and it appears to be a problem that is starting to become a national epidemic.
The purpose of this study was to examine bullying within student-sanctioned programs within a school, specifically, whether or not student leaders in those programs …
A Model Of School Managerial Control : The Systematic Analysis Of Managerial Behaviors, Processes, And Indicators, Ira Elliot Bogotch
A Model Of School Managerial Control : The Systematic Analysis Of Managerial Behaviors, Processes, And Indicators, Ira Elliot Bogotch
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The theoretical construct of control has been defined as necessary (Etzioni, 1965), ubiquitous (Vickers, 1967), and on-going (E. Langer, 1983). Empirical measures, however, have not adequately given meaning to this potent construct, especially within complex organizations such as schools. Four stages of theory-development and empirical testing of school building managerial control using principals and teachers working within the nation's fourth largest district are presented in this dissertation as follows: (1) a review and synthesis of social science theories of control across the literatures of organizational theory, political science, sociology, psychology, and philosophy; (2) a systematic analysis of school managerial activities …