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Table of contents :
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
1 Democratic Participation or Efficient Site Management: The Social and Political Location of the Self-Managing School......Page 18
2 The New Right and the Self-Managing School......Page 39
3 Paradigm Shifts and Site-based Management in the United States Toward a Paradigm of Social Empowerment......Page 51
4 Culture, Cost and Control; Self-Management and Entrepreneurial Schooling in England and Wales......Page 64
5 Reinventing Square Wheels: Planning for Schools to Ignore Realities......Page 81
6 The Evaluative State and Self-Management in Education: Cause for Reflection?......Page 94
7 The Politics of Devolution, Self-Management and Post-Fordism in Schools......Page 109
8 Pushing Crisis and Stress down the Line: The Self-Managing School......Page 126
9 Managerial ism, Market Liberalism and the Move to Self-Managing Schools in New Zealand......Page 140
10 Teaching Cultures and School-based Management: Towards a Collaborative Reconstruction......Page 156
11 ‘And Your Corporate Manager Will Set You Free…’: Devolution in South Australian Education......Page 174
12 Managerialism and Market Forces in Vocational Education: ‘Balkanizing’ Education in the ‘Banana Republic’......Page 193
13 Self-Managing Schools, Choice and Equity......Page 207
Notes on Contributors......Page 221
Index......Page 223