With this significant new work, Larry Cuban provides a unique and insightful perspective on the bridging of the long-standing and well-known gap between teachers and administrators. Drawing on the literature of the field as well as personal experience, Cuban recognizes the enduring structural relationship within school organizations inherited by teachers, principals, and superintendents, and calls for a renewal of their sense of common purpose regarding the role of schooling in a democratic society. Cuban analyzes the dominant images (moral and technical), roles (instructional,...
With this significant new work, Larry Cuban provides a unique and insightful perspective on the bridging of the long-standing and well-known gap betwe...
The major theme of this book is authority in Shiism with special emphasis on its institutionalization in different historic periods from the beginning of Shiism in the Middle Ages to the present. Part I presents new material on important or neglected issues that are at the center of current scholarly debate, including the fundamental relationship between knowledge and authority in pristine Shiism, aspects of popular culture in medieval Shiism, the institutionalization of religious authority in Shiite Iran from the 16th to 18th centuries, and the centralization of religious authority in...
The major theme of this book is authority in Shiism with special emphasis on its institutionalization in different historic periods from the beginning...
