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Austin, Gary W.; Moore, Grant E. – Education Canada, 1984
Traces London, Ontario's community schools from 1968-1984. Describes a system in transition from being centrally controlled by a school board to being increasingly in the control of community volunteers. Reflects on the redevelopment of the community school ideal as responsibility for school operations is placed back in community hands. (BRR)
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Schools, Decentralization, Educational Change
Trillas, Enric – International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 1983
The implications of the recently authorized regionalization of university administration in Spain, with the possibility of autonomous communities taking on wide responsibility for higher education and scientific and technical research, are explored. Concern is expressed for potential loss of efficiency and effectiveness. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Centralization, Community Control, Decentralization
Hughes, Phillip, Ed.; Mulford, William, Ed. – 1978
The state of New South Wales (NSW) ceded the Canberra area to the Commonwealth in 1911 as the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), but maintained responsibility for education in the region until 1974, when the territory became responsible for its own educational system. ACT's Independent Education Authority came into being in large part as the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Control, Community Role
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Hanson, E. Mark – Comparative Education Review, 1995
Examines Colombia's efforts to halt escalating violence and social destruction through political and educational decentralization aimed at bolstering participatory democracy. Discusses the efficiency and anticorruption goals of centralization policies of the 1970s. Describes lack of shared vision and other national and local barriers to…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Control, Decentralization, Democracy
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London, Norrel A. – Interchange, 1994
An examination of the implications of state strategy in plans to engage local communities in implementing Trinidad and Tobago's educational policy reviews the decentralization argument, discusses international interest in using communities to implement educational plans, and examines Trinidad and Tobago's recommendation to engage local communities…
Descriptors: Athletics, Community Control, Community Involvement, Culture
Andrews, Greg – 1978
If schools are to be professionally responsive to and accountable to their clients, each school must have some control over decisions affecting its particular student body. These include decisions in the areas of policy, curriculum, staffing, facilities, resources (and related finances), evaluation processes, and participation in system-level…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Control, Community Involvement, Decentralization
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McLellan, Iain – Journal of Educational Television, 1987
Discusses the use of video technology and community, or narrowcast, television in developing countries, particularly Africa. The importance of the media in improving communication between people and their government is emphasized, and the political, social and technical problems involved are described. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Community Control, Decentralization, Developing Nations
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Robinson, Jean C. – Comparative Education Review, 1986
Chinese "people-managed schools" began in the 1940s as popular voluntary village schools providing flexible relevant education to rural peasants, but are regarded today as low status and low quality. This change reflects the Chinese Communist Party's incremental move away from both decentralized decision making and populist education to…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Schools, Decentralization, Educational Development
Garrido, Jose Luis Garcia – Western European Education, 1989
Traces the trend toward increased local autonomy in Spanish education by placing this movement in historical context. Contends that public and social life in Spain may be disrupted by regional pressure for greater self-determination in education. Suggests that fundamental change will be best
Descriptors: Centralization, Community Control, Decentralization, Foreign Countries
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Granheim, Marit K.; Lundgren, Ulf P. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1991
Describes the public education system in Norway. Discusses steering and decentralization, political and professional responsibility, and proposals for governing by goals. Identifies the EMIL plan, which calls for establishing goals and evaluating results from the view of the government and teachers. Lists political and professional…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Community Control, Decentralization
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Richardson, D. Theophilus; Richardson, Zena A. C. – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1986
Discusses changes in education of Indian children in Alberta and Canada resulting from mobilization of Indian parents against integration of Indian children into public school systems. Changes include Indian control of local schools and parent involvement in school policies. Points out benefits of parent participation to schools, parents, and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Change Agents, Community Action
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Binda, K. P.; Nicol, D. G. – 1999
More than a century of centralized government and church control of Aboriginal education in Canada, aimed primarily at cultural assimilation, resulted in injustices, widespread inequalities, and underdevelopment. In the 1970s, after much political wrangling, the Canadian federal government and the First Nations agreed upon a policy of Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, Canada Natives, Community Control
Jimenez, Emmanuel; Sawada, Yasuyuki – 1998
This paper measures the effects on student outcomes of decentralizing educational responsibility to communities and schools. In El Salvador, community-managed schools emerged during the 1980s when public schools could not be extended to rural areas because of the country's civil war. In 1991, El Salvador's Ministry of Education decided to draw on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Community Control, Decentralization
Robust, Te Tuhi – 2002
This paper discusses the impact that recent educational reforms by the New Zealand government had on Maori individuals involved in community decision-making processes, focusing on one predominantly Maori rural community. Three strands of recent educational change in New Zealand are the move to self-managing institutions; ongoing debate over…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Boards of Education, Community Control, Decentralization
Whitty, Geoff; Seddon, Terri – 1994
This publication contains two papers on the implications of school decentralization for teacher education, student achievement, and democracy. The first paper, "Devolution in Education Systems: Implications for Teacher Professional Development and Pupil Performance" (Geoff Whitty), explores the way education reform movements for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Control, Decentralization, Democracy
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