chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Democratic Participation or Efficient Site Management: The Social and Political Location of the Self-Managing School -- chapter 2 The New Right and the Self-Managing School / Jack Demaine -- chapter 3 Paradigm Shifts and Site-based Management in the United States Toward a Paradigm of Social Empowerment -- chapter 4 Culture, Cost and Control; Self-Management and Entrepreneurial Schooling in England and Wales -- chapter 5 Reinventing Square Wheels: Planning for Schools to Ignore Realities / Marie Brennan -- chapter 6 The Evaluative State and Self-Management in Education: Cause for Reflection? -- chapter 7 The Politics of Devolution, Self-Management and Post-Fordism in Schools / Susan L.Robertson -- chapter 8 Pushing Crisis and Stress down the Line: The Self-Managing School / Peter Watkins -- chapter 9 Managerial ism, Market Liberalism and the Move to Self-Managing Schools in New Zealand -- chapter 10 Teaching Cultures and School-based Management: Towards a Collaborative Reconstruction -- chapter 11 And Your Corporate Manager Will Set You Free: Devolution in South Australian Education -- chapter 12 Managerialism and Market Forces in Vocational Education: Balkanizing Education in the Banana Republic -- chapter 13 Self-Managing Schools, Choice and Equity / Geoffrey Walford.