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Download full textCourt, Marian R. – 1997
In New Zealand the rhetoric of educational administration reform has claimed that local school management will lead to improvement in the areas of efficiency, effectiveness, and equity. In addition, the role of the school principal has been a significant site of contest and struggle. This paper presents findings of a ongoing ethnographic study…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Decentralization, Elementary Education
Strachan, Jane – 1997
Literature on educational policies of the "New Right" suggests that within a neoliberal context, school principals become institutional managers rather than educational leaders. The practice of feminist educational leadership, which works for improved social justice and equity for staff and students, is committed to empowering coworkers,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Administration
Harold, Barbara – 1997
During 1989, the administration of the New Zealand education system underwent the most dramatic change since its inception as a national system in 1889. The changes affected principals, who took on greatly expanded managerial responsibilities while continuing their traditional role of professional leadership. Principals were also responsible to…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Decentralization, Educational Change
Fris, Joe; And Others – 1992
Findings of a study that examined the ways in which school principals, directors of nursing education programs, and supervisors of community health centers manage conflict are presented in this paper. The study attempted to determine the applicability of research on conflict management in noneducational settings to school organizations. Interviews…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Community Health Services
Chippendale, P. R., Ed.; Wilkes, Paula V., Ed. – 1977
This collection of papers delivered at a conference on accountability held at Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education in Australia examines the meaning of accountability in education for teachers, lecturers, government, parents, administrators, education authorities, and the society at large. In Part 1, W. G. Walker attempts to answer the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Stevens, 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
