- Title
- The disaster of the 'self-managing school' - genesis, trajectory, undisclosed agenda, and effects
- Creator
- Smyth, John
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/33214
- Identifier
- vital:4068
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2011.560253
- Identifier
- ISSN:0022-0620
- Abstract
- Sometimes an educational idea is inexplicably adopted around the world with remarkable speed and consistency and in the absence of a proper evidence base or with little regard or respect for teachers, students or learning. This paper examines what has arguably been the most contentious and virulent educational reform of the past half-century. Variously labelled, in what amounts to the self-managing school, what this reform has done is virtually dismantle public education and privatise it without public debate or proper scrutiny. This paper considers the alleged claims by the enthusiastic proponents and examines what has subsequently transpired, particularly in respect of the most disadvantaged students and the broader mission of improved learning. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.
- Relation
- Journal of Educational Administration and History Vol. 43, no. 2 (2010), p. 95-117; http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP100100045
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor and Francis
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; Critical policy analysis; Educational delusion; Local school management; Self-managing school; Site-based management
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