Socially Critical View Of The Self-Managing School / / John Smyth.

• VerfasserIn: Smyth, John,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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

• The New Right and the self-managing school, Jack Demaine;
• paradigm shifts and site-based management in the United States - toward a paradigm of social empowerment, Gary L. Anderson and Alexandra Dixon;
• reinventing square wheels - planning for schools to ignore realities, Marie Brennan;
• the evaluative state and self-management in education - cause for reflection?, David Hartley;
• pushing crisis and stress down the line - the self-managing school, Peter Watkins;
• teaching cultures and school-based management - towards a collaborative reconstruction, Andrew C. Sparkes and Martin Bloomer;
• managerialism and market forces in vocational education - Balkanizing education in the Banana Republic, Peter Kell;
• self-managing schools, choice and equity, Geoffrey Walford.