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Donovan, Christina – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2019
It would be easy to assume that social trust is a normatively good value to promote within institutions. Trust encourages cooperation between actors, and thus normalises policies, practices and behaviours that tend to work towards collective social good. To assume this would also be to assume that trust should be a central aspiration for policy…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Policy Formation, Educational Policy, Adult Education
Frankowski, Andrea; van der Steen, Martijn; Bressers, Daphne; Schulz, Martin; Shewbridge, Claire; Fuster, Marc; Rouw, Rien – OECD Publishing, 2018
Prepared for a Strategic Education Governance learning seminar, this working paper analyses the ways in which the Dutch government tried to reach overarching goals in education, in a system characterised by a high degree of distributed autonomy of education institutions and the participation of multiple actors, and consequently a government highly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
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Bresnick, David – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1974
Decentralization and recentralization are continuing phenomena in large bureaucracies, each cyclically emerging to prominence. The current decentralization strategy for large city school systems can only be successful in conjunction with continuing (though altered) centralized functions. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Centralization, Decentralization
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Glatter, Ron – Educational Management & Administration, 1999
Considers the growing power and influence of the central state in British education and the "policy hysteria" characterizing it. Questions the wisdom of basing policy on performance management and other rationalistic approaches. Recent research suggests that staff commitment and satisfaction are key factors in producing results. (71…
Descriptors: Centralization, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ifanti, Amalia A. – Educational Management & Administration, 1995
The Greek education system reflects the principles and key characteristics of corporatist state education, including a uniform curriculum, teachers' civil-servant status, and strict central control over all education matters. Attempts during the past decade to devolve educational control to regional and local levels have only succeeded in…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Bureaucracy, Centralization, Educational Administration
Luthans, Fred – 1967
One phase of academic management, the faculty promotion process, is systematically described and analyzed. The study encompasses three parts: (l) the justification of the use of management concepts in the analysis of academic administration; (2) a descriptive presentation of promotion policies and practices in 46 large state universities; and (3)…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Career Ladders, Centralization, College Administration
Housego, Ian E. – 1981
In 1974 local government in England underwent external and internal reform. The external reforms involved changes in governmental structures and functions, while the internal reforms involved the introduction of "corporate management," a concept stressing more centralized administration and fewer local executive bodies. This paper first…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Educational Administration
Summerfield, Harry L. – 1971
Viewing neighborhoods as political units, this book proposes: (1) that a style of political action operates in every neighborhood school setting; (2) that the political style varies in relation to the unique qualities of each neighborhood; and, (3) that all neighborhoods share a number of political characteristics regardless of their variations in…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Centralization, Community Characteristics, Educational Administration
Montana Univ. System, Helena. – 1978
The changes and progress made under the new system of governance of the Montana university system are examined. The report compares progress made by the system in the five years preceeding the change of governance (1968-1973) with the progress made during the first five and one-half years of the new system (July, 1973 to December, 1978). Under the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Administrative Organization, Centralization, Educational Administration
Abel, J. F. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
The second national conference on consolidation of rural schools and transportation of pupils was called by the United States Commissioner of Education and held at Cleveland, Ohio, February 26, 1923. Twenty-three States were represented. Those in attendance included State commissioners of education, rural-school workers from State departments of…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Conferences (Gatherings), Rural Schools, Administrator Education
Cook, Katherine M.; Windes, E. E. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
This report is the result of an investigation of the schools of Beaufort County, North Carolina, at the request of the county board of education, for the purpose of studying the possibilities for centralizing the schools of the county and of recommending a definite plan of procedure for school consolidation. No complete investigation of the…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Rural Education, Consolidated Schools, Counties