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Marshall, Catherine; Mitchell, Barbara A. – Education and Urban Society, 1991
Studies school-site administrators' understanding about ways of gaining/maintaining power, control, and predictability. Multisite study data concerning assistant principals identify rules of the game for four micropolitical (site-level assumptive world) domains. Assumptive worlds create avoidance of value conflicts and risky change, group-think…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Assistant Principals, Behavior Standards, Educational Environment