A Socially Critical View of the Self-managing School

• VerfasserIn: Smyth, John,
• Sonstige: Smyth, John
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The shift from the model of central government educational control to school- based management has been widely adopted and acclaimed and has created the general impression of increased democracy and participation.; The international contributors to this book tackle this important policy issue and lo...

Table of Contents

• chapter Introduction
• chapter 1 Democratic Participation or Efficient Site Management: The Social and Political Location of the Self-Managing School
• chapter 2 The New Right and the Self-Managing School / Jack Demaine
• chapter 3 Paradigm Shifts and Site-based Management in the United States Toward a Paradigm of Social Empowerment
• chapter 4 Culture, Cost and Control; Self-Management and Entrepreneurial Schooling in England and Wales
• chapter 5 Reinventing Square Wheels: Planning for Schools to Ignore Realities / Marie Brennan
• chapter 6 The Evaluative State and Self-Management in Education: Cause for Reflection?
• chapter 7 The Politics of Devolution, Self-Management and Post-Fordism in Schools / Susan L.Robertson
• chapter 8 Pushing Crisis and Stress down the Line: The Self-Managing School / Peter Watkins
• chapter 9 Managerial ism, Market Liberalism and the Move to Self-Managing Schools in New Zealand
• chapter 10 Teaching Cultures and School-based Management: Towards a Collaborative Reconstruction
• chapter 11 And Your Corporate Manager Will Set You Free: Devolution in South Australian Education
• chapter 12 Managerialism and Market Forces in Vocational Education: Balkanizing Education in the Banana Republic
• chapter 13 Self-Managing Schools, Choice and Equity / Geoffrey Walford.