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This in-depth study of grassroots politics - `micropolitics' - in schools, which includes examples from the UK and the USA, explores how teachers, administrators and their students use political power to protect their interests and to bring about change in the status quo.

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This in-depth study of grassroots politics - `micropolitics' - in schools, which includes examples from the UK and the USA, explores how teachers, administrators and their students use political power to protect their interests and to bring about change in the status quo.
Autorenporträt
Joseph Blase is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Georgia. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1980 from Syracuse University, his research has focused on understanding the work lives of teachers. He has published many studies in the areas of teacher stress, relationships between teachers' personal and professional lives, teacher socialization, and principal-teacher relationships. His work concentrating on school-level micropolitics received the 1988 Davis Memorial Award given by the University Council for Educational Administration, and his co-authored article published in the Journal of Educational Administration won the W.G. Walker 2000 Award for Excellence. Blase edited The Politics of Life in Schools: Power, Conflict, and Cooperation (winner of the 1994 Critic's Choice Award sponsored by the American Education Studies Association, Sage 1991); co-authored, with Peggy Kirby, Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (Corwin, 1994); co-authored with Jo Blas, Gary Anderson, and Sherry Dungan, Democratic Principals in Action: Eight Pioneers (Corwin, 1995); co-authored with Gary Anderson, The Micropolitics of Educational Leadership (Teachers College Press, 1995); and co-authored with Jo Blase, The Fire Is Back: Principals Sharing School Governance (Corwin, 1997), Empowering Teachers: What Successful Principals Do (1994, 2001, Corwin), and Breaking the Silence: Overcoming the Problem of Principal Mistreatment of Teachers (Corwin, 2003). Hi numerous articles appear in journals such as the American Education Research Journal and Educational Administration Quarterly , and his chapters appear in international handbooks of research on change and teaching.