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Direct linkKeddie, Amanda; MacDonald, Katrina; Blackmore, Jill; Boyask, Ruth; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Heffernan, Amanda; Hursh, David; McGrath-Champ, Susan; Møller, Jorunn; O'Neill, John; Parding, Karolina; Salokangas, Maija; Skerritt, Craig; Stacey, Meghan; Thomson, Pat; Wilkins, Andrew; Wilson, Rachel; Wylie, Cathy; Yoon, Ee-Seul – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy, School District Autonomy
Reid, Alan – Australian Educational Researcher, 2016
In Australia, education think tanks have become increasingly influential in policy circles through "reports" to government, and in public debate through the mainstream media. Invariably think-tanks draw on educational research to lend authority and legitimacy to their work. This is desirable if the research deepens understandings about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Case Studies, Organizations (Groups)
Eacott, Scott – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2015
Contemporary discourses in educational administration have exponentially grown the number of adjectival leaderships, challenged traditional organisational structures, and offered autonomy as a solution to performance issues. In this theoretical paper, I ask "what does the principalship look like after autonomy?" Despite the range of…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Autonomy, Educational Administration, Administrator Role
Janmaat, Jan Germen; Mons, Nathalie – Comparative Education Review, 2011
The literature on political socialization has overlooked the influence of system characteristics of schooling on civic values and youth political identities. This article addresses that gap by investigating the degree to which system differentiation relates to the values of ethnic tolerance and patriotism. We distinguish between pedagogical…
Descriptors: Political Socialization, Public Education, Patriotism, Values
Peer reviewedMumford, John – Journal of Educational Administration, 1994
Argues that school boards were introduced and retained during the 19 foundational years of state education in New South Wales, Australia, not as token partners or mere money-raisers, but as integral parts of the school system. The successes of local participation in frontier conditions were sufficient to justify the board's encouragement of local…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Decentralization, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Chapman, Judith D., Ed. – 1990
School-based management refers to a form of educational administration in which the school becomes the primary unit for decision-making. The book is structured into five parts. In part 1, international developments in school-based decision-making and management are documented and analyzed. Described are developments in Australia, Canada, France,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Governance, School Based Management
Peer reviewedKaminsky, James S. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1981
Applies a philosophical perspective to the landmark 1970 memorandum "Freedom and Authority" written by A. W. Jones, then Director-General of Education in South Australia. In the memorandum Jones attempted a decentralization and reform of South Australian schools. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedStone, Marian; Harrold, Ross – Journal of Educational Administration, 1990
Explores the assumption that Australian state school systems are too highly centralized and inflexible to cater to students' diverse educational needs. An examination of Queensland and New South Wales schools shows that system-level directives are not unduly prescriptive. Regional office staff often practice "benign neglect" of central…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Centralization, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedvan Langen, Annemarie; Dekkers, Hetty – Comparative Education, 2001
Describes Dutch policies to combat educational disadvantage arising from economic, social, and cultural factors by funding efforts at the local level. Compares Dutch efforts to success factors and obstacles encountered in similar initiatives in the United States, England and Wales, and Australia, where public education and local authority have…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedDeschamp, Phil; McGaw, Barry – Australian Journal of Education, 1979
While responsibility for curriculum development in Australia is devolving to the local level, the state systems, in the name of accountability, are retaining responsibility for curriculum evaluation. This article examines the curriculum centralization/decentralization patterns in Australia's states, points out the paradoxes in such systems, and…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Centralization, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Download full textBeavis, Allan K. – 1992
This paper explores possibilities within a paradigm that is an alternative to the reductionist, mechanistic paradigm of school-based management. The use of a "sporting team" concept (from a dynamic, holistic paradigm) rather than a "ship's crew" model (from a reductionist approach) is advocated. Using research on the governance…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Governance, Institutional Autonomy
Hughes, P. W.; And Others – 1980
There is an increasing awareness of the need for school-level curriculum evaluation in Australia, due to improved teaching and learning factors and to the wider role and responsibilities of schools in educational policy making. Although the school-level evaluation policies of the eight Australian states have similar goals, there are marked…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSmithson, Alan – Journal of Educational Administration, 1985
This article closes off a debate in this journal between the author and James D. Kaminsky concerning the latter's philosophical analysis of a "Freedom and Authority Memorandum" delivered to South Australian public schools in the early 1970s by then Director-General of Education, A. W. Jones. (TE)
Descriptors: Community Control, Curriculum, Democracy, Democratic Values
Peer reviewedMaddock, John – Comparative Education, 1983
Suggests that educational systems have been structured by societies in a state of insufficient awareness; focuses on the issues of centralization, organizational structures, and the curriculum. Compares aspects of South Australian, English/Welsh, Greek, and North American secondary education systems. (MH)
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Education, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries
The Innovations Program 1974-81: Constructing an Approach to Planned Change in Australian Education.
Streat, W. L. – 1982
The Innovations Program, established by the Australian Schools Commission in 1974, was a small national program aimed at fostering local actions for change in Australian primary and secondary education. In this report, the author begins by examining different approaches to educational innovation and reviewing the literature on innovation. Part 2…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Community Role
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