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Power and responsibility in education / edited by Keith Watson, Celia Modgil, and Sohan Modgil.
LIBRA LC71 .P65 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Educational dilemmas ; v. 3.
- Educational dilemmas ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education and state--Cross-cultural studies.
- Education and state.
- Educational planning--Cross-cultural studies.
- Educational planning.
- Educational change--Cross-cultural studies.
- Educational change.
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Herndon, VA : Cassell, 1997.
- Contents:
- The Control of Education: Where Does Power Lie? / Keith Watson, Celia Modgil, Sohan Modgil xvi
- Part 1 Administrative Control
- The Centralization/Decentralization Debate
- 1 Assessing the Present Importance of Different Forms of Decentralization in Education / Jon Lauglo 3
- 2 Not Decentralization but Integration / Noel F. McGinn 17
- 3 Power, Participation and Educational Decentralization in South Africa / Yusuf Sayed 25
- Part 2 Issues in Policy and Planning
- 4 The Role of Teachers in Educational Reforms / Clive Whitehead 41
- 5 Educational Planning and the Development and Management of Schooling: A Comment / Brian Garvey 49
- 6 Planning versus Management: An Academic Issue / David Atchoarena 59
- 7 The European Union and its Educational Agenda: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? / Ronald G. Sultana 65
- The Powers of the European Union in Educational Matters: Raymond Ryba Responds to Ronald Sultana 74
- Of Facts, Fictions and the EU: A Response to Ryba from Ronald Sultana 81
- A Final Note by Raymond Ryba 87
- 8 International Aid to Education: Why Projects Fail / Fiona Leach 89
- 9 International Aid to Education: Some Comments / Henry Kaluba 101
- Fiona Leach Responds to Henry Kaluba 105
- 10 Aid and Education / Roger Iredale 108
- 11 Aid for Development or for Change? A Discussion of Education and Training Policies of Development Assistance Agencies, with Particular Reference to Japan / Kenneth King 112
- Part 3 Pressures for Change in England and Wales
- 12 Consumer Rights in Schooling / Tony Edwards 127
- 13 Her Majesty's Inspectorate in the 1980s and 1990s: An Exemplary Tale / John Tomlinson 135
- Mike Wallace Responds to John Tomlinson 145
- 14 Guided by an Unseen Hand: The Mass Media and Education Policy / Mike Wallace 147
- John Tomlinson Responds to Mike Wallace 156
- 15 Markets or Democracy for Education / Stewart Ranson 158
- Markets or Democracy for Education? A Reply to Stewart Ranson by James Tooley 171
- Public Institutions for Co-operative Action: A Reply to James Tooley by Stewart Ranson 180
- 16 Co-operation without Deliberation: The Market Solution / James Tooley 185
- Part 4 The Control of the Curriculum
- 17 Curriculum Control and Responsibility: An International Perspective / Michael Crossley, Roger Garrett 197
- 18 Multicultural Curriculum Planning as a Political Activity / R. Murray Thomas 209
- 19 Divergent and Convergent Trends in Multicultural Education in Russia and its Neighbouring Countries / Wolfgang Mitter 221
- 20 Is the National Curriculum an Exercise in De-skilling? A Critique of UK Curriculum Development in Relation to Future Needs / Paul Ganderton 229
- Part 5 Separate School Provision
- 21 New Christian Schools: A Question of Balance / Geoffrey Walford 247
- 22 'Opting In' Under the 1993 Education Act: A Case-study / Ruth Deakin 254
- Geoffrey Walford Responds to Ruth Deakin 264
- Ruth Deakin Responds to Geoffrey Walford 266
- 23 Alternative Christian Schooling: The Historical and Contemporary Context of the Australian Experience / Ian Lambert 268
- 24 Alternative Christian Schooling: A Search for Meaning / Brian V. Hill 280
- Part 6 School Leadership
- 25 School Autonomy in the Light of Controversial Views: A Comparative Approach with Special Regard to Pedagogical and Curricular Issues in the European Context / Wolfgang Mitter 291
- 26 The Case for Leaderless Schools / Lynn Davies 304
- 27 The Case for School Leadership / Brian Fidler 316.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 030432891X
- OCLC:
- 37139320
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