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Democracy and Bureaucracy
Tensions in Public Schooling
- 268 pages
- English
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About this book
First published in 1990, Democracy and Bureaucracy examines the tensions associated with the reorganization of public education in Australia. Contributors explore these tensions through a variety of related antimonies: bureaucracy and democracy, control and autonomy, centralism and devolution. The thesis generally propounded in this book is that democratic structures, participation and school-based decision-making are all elements of school improvement which enable a bureaucracy to be more responsive, less authoritarian, and in control only over the macro issues of policy, thereby leaving to schools the maximum degree of freedom possible for their own determination of principles, policies and practices. This book will be of interest to students of education, pedagogy, public policy and public administration.
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Yes, you can access Democracy and Bureaucracy by Judith D. Chapman,Jeffrey F. Dunstan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & History of Education. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Organization of School Systems in Australia: A Synoptic View
- Chapter 2 Balancing Competing Values in School Reform: International Efforts in Restructuring Education Systems
- Chapter 3 From Charity School to Community School: The Unfinished Australian Experience
- Chapter 4 Democracy, Bureaucracy and the Politics of Education
- Chapter 5 Governing Australia's Public Schools: Community Participation, Bureaucracy and Devolution
- Chapter 6 Exploring Trails in School Management
- Chapter 7 Democracy, Bureaucracy and the Classroom
- Chapter 8 Democracy and Bureaucracy: Curriculum Issues
- Chapter 9 Accountability in Changing School Systems
- Chapter 10 Financial Issues in the Tension between Democracy and Bureaucracy
- Chapter 11 Tensions in System-wide Management
- Chapter 12 Reforming Bureaucracy: An Attempt to Develop Responsive Educational Governance
- Notes on Contributors
- Index