Going the Distance: The Road to the 1984 Olympic Women's Marathon

The 1984 Los Angeles Games hosted, for the first time in Olympic history, a women's marathon race. It took the efforts of several important factions to accomplish the event. First, women runners demonstrated that they were capable of running great distances in increasingly faster times. Second, the popular media publicised those performances, often mitigating athletic commentary with observations about the runners' femininity, attractiveness and relationships with men. Finally, commercial sponsors joined the ranks in this marathon battle to finance important events, running circuits and advocacy groups while simultaneously promoting their own brands of commodity feminism. In the end, it took the coming together of the physical activists, media advocates and corporate champions to accomplish this milestone in sport history.     

Two Sides of the Same Coin

There are distinctions between leadership and management. Each position has its own characteristics and functional activities, but these activities are related and complementary arrangements for coordinating, controlling, and advancing organizational operations. Leaders typically envision and managers implement. However, this does not mean that managers are not capable leaders. In many cases, managers have to be leaders as well as coordinators and controllers of complex transactions.     

The Irony of Authenticity

Authenticity appears to be the value of the moment. It is now the new standard for leadership. The theme is so pervasive that institutions of every sort have tried to lay claim to its virtues. Businesses are spending lavishly for advice on how to make executives and managers more authentic. However, an entrusting acceptance of what this means can have adverse consequences for a young manager's growth and hinder an accomplished executive's impact.     

The organic puppet theatre

For most youngsters, the insides of their bodies are squishy, bloody, mysterious, and hard to understand. Definitely not looked upon as something to love, or even sneak a peek at! Sad commentary on awareness of our own health and well-being.Illustrated by Duane G. Barnhart This article is excerpted from The Organic Puppet Theatreavailable from Night Owl Press, 1537 West Iowa Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108 © 1983.     

Feminist tales of teaching and resistance: reimagining gender in early childhood education (Reggio Emilia,Italy)

ABSTRACT

This article investigates whether the memories of women’s movements that grew out of the Italian Resistance to the Nazi-Fascist Regime during the Second World War have left any legacy to women teachers in early childhood education. The article focuses on the case of internationally renowned and high-quality schools for young children, the municipal schools of a northern Italian town called Reggio Emilia. In contrast to much of the literature on gender and early childhood education, this paper reveals that many women teachers in these schools think of themselves as agents of social change, and that this is tied to their memories of the Italian Resistance.     

组织学习的跨文化效应:中国和荷兰的比较

基于克拉克洪和斯托德伯克的跨文化分析架构就中国和荷兰的社会文化对组织学习过程、组织学习氛围和组织学习能力的影响进行比较,提出一些有待进一步证实的命题,以期引起人们对跨文化组织学习实证研究的关注,为跨国公司在华子公司打造学习型组织实践提供理论基础。     

eVALUate: an evaluation instrument for measuring students’ perceptions of their engagement and learning outcomes

In the current climate in Australian higher education, quality assurance in university teaching is a priority. In particular, the introduction of the Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (LTPF) has refocused attention on universities’ internal student evaluation survey instruments. This paper reports the development, validation and implementation of a new unit survey instrument which prompts students to reflect on what helps their achievement of unit learning outcomes, and to report their levels of motivation, engagement and overall satisfaction with a semester‐long course or unit of study. The instrument (eVALUate) was created from precepts reported in the research literature, current practices in evaluating teaching, and sound quality assurance practices appropriate to a university outcomes‐focused education paradigm.