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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818598103321

Autore

Harber Clive

Titolo

School management and effectiveness in developing countries : the post-bureaucratic school / / Clive Harber and Lynn Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Herndon, VA, : Cassell, 1998

ISBN

1-281-29470-5

9786611294700

1-84714-251-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

School development series

Altri autori (Persone)

DaviesLynn

Disciplina

371.20091724

Soggetti

School management and organization - Developing countries

Educational planning - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Abbreviations; Introduction: Heading South: Internationalizing Educational Management and Effectiveness; Part One: The State of the Field; Part Two: Contextual Realities for School Management; Part Three: Explaining School Management: Levels of Understanding; Part Four: Towards Post-Bureaucracy; Conclusion: School Management and Development: Goals and Own Goals; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is quite different from existing 'Western' books on school effectiveness. It describes and analyses the way in which schools operate in developing countries and also tries to explain why they are as they are. Examining them at three levels - the macro, the meso and the micro - the authors use a theoretical framework that they have termed 'post-bureaucracy.'The book has four interlinked sections. First the authors examine the existing economic and theoretical contexts around school effectiveness, including an analysis of the causes of economic crisis and its impact on school management