1st Edition

Reshaping Education In The 1990s Perspectives On Secondary Schooling

Edited By Rita Chawla-Duggan, Christopher J. Pole Copyright 1996
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

This volume evaluates the implications of change for the providers and consumers of post-1988 secondary education for the 21st century. The issues covered include school governance, parental choice and the market place, and local management of schools.

Part 1 Schooling and the market: dynamics of competition - the effects of local competitive arenas on schools, Philip Woods, Carl Bagley and Ron Glatter; education and business - converging models, Ian Jamieson; unsaleable goods and the education market, Eric Blyth and Judith Miller. Part 2 Changing school governance: the school, the parent, the banker and the local politician - what can we learn from the English experience of involving lay people in the site-based management of schools? Rosemary Deem; school governing bodies in Northern Ireland - responses to local management of schools, Penny McKeown, Caitlin Donnelly and Bob Osborne; devolved management - variations of response in Scottish school boards, Margaret Arnott, Charles Raab and Pamela Munn; the grant maintained schools policy - the English experience of educational self-governance, Sally Power, David Halpin and John Fitz. Part 3 Experiencing local management: the new head in England - financial management and micropolitics in schools, Julia Evetts; a question of costs - budget management in secondary schools, Lynda Huckman and John Fletcher; educational change in the United Kingdom - a North-South divide, Sally Brown; when breadth and balance means balancing the books - curriculum planning in schools post-ERA, Dawn Penny and John Evans.

Biography

Chawla-Duggan, Rita; Pole, Christopher J.