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Miller, Robert J.; Rowan, Brian – American Educational Research Journal, 2006
Proponents of school restructuring often promote the purported benefits of professional forms of management that call for staff cooperation and collegiality, teachers' participation in school decision making, and supportive leadership by school principals. A theoretical perspective on organizations known as contingency theory refers to such…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Elementary Secondary Education, School Restructuring, Principals
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Johnson, Margaret J.; Pajares, Frank – American Educational Research Journal, 1996
The implementation of a shared decision making (SDM) project in a large public secondary school was studied for three years. Factors that enhanced the SDM process were the confidence stakeholders had in themselves, resource availability, creation of democratic rules and procedures, early and concrete accomplishments, and the principal's support.…
Descriptors: Achievement, Cooperation, Democracy, Educational Change