1st Edition
A Socially Critical View Of The Self-Managing School
Edited By John Smyth
Copyright 1993
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
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 look behind the scenes of the moves towards school self- management. They investigate the phenomenon... Read more
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.
Biography
Smyth, John
