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Democratizing School Authority: Brazilian Teachers' Perceptions of the Election of Principals
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Myers, John P. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
The idea of collective decision making in schools has been a popular democratic educational reform model. One of its claims is that participation in school decision making empowers teachers and improves teaching. This research investigates this claim by exploring seven teachers' experiences with a unique democratic school reform in Porto Alegre,…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Elections, Educational Change, Participative Decision Making