Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Democratic Participation or Efficient Site Management: The Social and Political Location of the Self-Managing School ; 2 The New Right and the Self-Managing School ; 3 Paradigm Shifts and Site-based Management in the United States Toward a Paradigm of Social Empowerment; 4 Culture, Cost and Control; Self-Management and Entrepreneurial Schooling in England and Wales; 5 Reinventing Square Wheels: Planning for Schools to Ignore Realities; 6 The Evaluative State and Self-Management in Education: Cause for Reflection?

7 The Politics of Devolution, Self-Management and Post-Fordism in Schools 8 Pushing Crisis and Stress down the Line: The Self-Managing School ; 9 Managerial ism, Market Liberalism and the Move to Self-Managing Schools in New Zealand; 10 Teaching Cultures and School-based Management: Towards a Collaborative Reconstruction; 11 'And Your Corporate Manager Will Set You Free ... ': Devolution in South Australian Education; 12 Managerialism and Market Forces in Vocational Education: 'Balkanizing' Education in the 'Banana Republic'; 13 Self-Managing Schools, Choice and Equity; Notes on Contributors.

The shift from the model of central government educational control to school- based management has been widely adopted and acclaimed and has created the general impression of increased democracy and participation.; The international contributors to this book tackle this important policy issue and look behind the scenes of the moves towards school self- management. They investigate the phenomenon of the self-managing school, Why It Is Happening Now, What Is The Truth Behind This Notion And The problems which lie behind devolution and self-management.; The self- managing school, it is claimed is.