A Socially Critical View Of The Self-Managing School

Herausgeber: Smyth, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 of the self-managing school, Why It Is Happening Now, What Is The Truth Behind This Notion And The problems which lie behind devolution and self-management.; The self- managing school, it is claimed is not about "grassroots democracy" or "parent participation" but absolutely the reverse and this contradiction is best understood in terms of the ideology of the New Right. Enlightened and informed perspectives of the reality behind school self-management suggest that the devolution of power is only superficial. Hierarchies continue to exist as unequally funded schools which perpetuate class, gender and ethnic divisions. The mechanism involved promotes the Survivial Of The Fittest Through Notions Of Choice.; For Those Involved in school management and education generally, this book should provide a useful insight into the struggle surrounding the control of schooling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780750702133
• ISBN-10: 0750702133
• Artikelnr.: 21025298

Autorenporträt

Smyth, John

Inhaltsangabe

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.