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Reducing School Administration to a Technicality? Philosophical Reflections of Senior German School Administrators in the Context of New Public Management-Based Vocational School Reform
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Wittmann, Eveline – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2006
Vocational schools in Germany are currently undergoing administrative reform. The main idea behind this reform, taken from the administrative paradigm of New Public Management, has been to grant schools extended autonomy but to make them more accountable for their results. Critics emphasize that such reform tends to reduce school administration to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Schools, School Administration, Accountability
Steering the German Higher Education System.
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Enders, Jurgen; Kehm, Barbara M. – Higher Education Management, 1994
Discussion of the direction and governance of German higher education since the 1960s looks at the relationship of faculty to disciplines, the role of the state in higher education, and failed efforts at reform. New reform debates are examined. It is noted that change at the system level continues to be difficult. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, College Administration, College Faculty
School Autonomy. Problems of Decision-Making from a Politico-administrative Point of View.
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Lange, Hermann – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1995
Maintains that the issue of school autonomy is being discussed widely in Germany. Describes autonomy as greater independence within a framework of tasks that still must be defined and accounted for politically and legally. Examines possible consequences of school autonomy, including responsibility for results. (CFR)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational History