Restructuring Schools : An International Perspective On The Movement To Transform The Control And performance of schools

ISBN-13: 9780750701211 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 272 str.

Hedley Beare

Opis

Education reform has become part of a political imperative in a number of developed countries around the world. The simultaneous movement to reform schooling and the administrative structures which deliver educational services therefore needs to be studied in order to lay bare its fundamental assumptions. This movement has been labelled restructuring and reform, although the words carry different meanings in different countries.

Spis treści

Part 1 Concepts and definition - clarifying the themes and their meanings: an international perspective on the restructuring movement in education, B. Caldwell; a political theory of educational reform, J. Guthrie and J. Koppich; centralization and decentralization, R. Slater; restructuring school management - an American perspective, R. Elmore; restructuring school management - an Australian perspective, H. Beare; the politics of privitization in education, B. Cooper; privatization and the dilemma of public and private schools, D. Anderson; a framework for allocatin authorities in a system of schools, A. Swanson; a basis for analysis, W. Boyd and D. Smart. Part 2 Cases of reform: the education reform movement in the US, J. Guthrie; the education reform movement in Great Britain, H. Thomas; the restructuring of Australian education, W. Loudon et al; the reconstruction of New Zealand education, R.J.S. MacPherson; education reform in the 1980s in Canada, S. Lawton; educational reform in Japan since 1984, Takeshi Sasamori. Part 3 Conclusion: speculations and commentary, H. Beare and W. Boyd.

O autorze

H. Beare, W.Lowe Boyd