Critical Perspectives. Selected Papers from the Annual LEPS Research Symposium (5th, De Kalb, Illinois, February 9-10, 1996).

The following 11 papers were presented at a symposium on leadership and educational policy studies (LEPS): "Food, Filth, Factory, and Flowers: A Critical Analysis of Ohio's Employability Skills Project" (Nina Dorsch); "Defining and Restructuring Work: Implications for Adult Education" (Georges B. Germain); "The Erosion of Subsistence and Motherwork" (Mechthild Hart); "Struggling for Democratic Educational Practices: The Adult Learning Skills Program and the Campaign To Stop the Focus on Quality Policy" (John Holst); "Work, Adult Education, and Sites of Resistance" (Winston Lawrence); "Who Should Pay To Learn? A Critical Assessment of the World Bank's Neoliberal Education Policies" (Derek Mulenga); "On Trial: The Legal Basis and Role of Education in the New European Union" (Mark Murphy); "Organizational Learning and Control: A Critical Examination of HRD [Human Resource Development] and the Politics of Workplace Discipline" (Fred Schied); "Traditional versus 'New' Education: The Problem Defined" (Richard Louis Sorrentino); "Corporatizing Work, Education, and Democracy within Postmodern Praxis" (Sherman Stanage); "Rural People, Rural Communities, and Sustainability: Rethinking the Role of Adult Education" (Jeff Zacharakis-Jutz). (KC)