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Peer reviewedJohnston, Sue; Hedemann, Maree – School Organisation, 1994
Although devolution (decentralization) policies assume that school communities will work collaboratively to make decisions appropriate to the local context, cooperative processes do not occur automatically. This paper outlines a case study of a school committee's efforts to develop a discipline policy at an Australian elementary school. Committee…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Committees, Cooperation, Decentralization
Peer reviewedRoberts, Jo; Dungan, Sherry – School Organisation, 1994
Analyzes teachers' and students' perceptions of how participants became empowered in shared governance schools belonging to the Georgia-based League of Professional Schools. Includes descriptions of principals' related leadership practices. Participants reported increased communication quality and frequency both horizontally and vertically.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Collegiality, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Download full textStevens, Ken – 1994
This paper examines school management and decision-making practices in four small rural New Zealand secondary schools. During the late 1980s, national legislation was enacted that established local school governance by elected boards of trustees. A national teachers' union felt that teachers and their unions had been marginalized from…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Community Involvement
