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The educational superintendent between trust and regulation : an international perspective / Adam E. Nir, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Education in a competitive and globalizing world series.
- Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School superintendents.
- School management and organization.
- Educational leadership.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Public education is one of the main forces that make a healthy and democratic society. It strives to educate and to provide the younger generation knowledge and skills that allow children to become contributing citizens in their society. Public education is considered highly significant in consolidating the society and establishing its cultural and economic strength. For those reasons, governments choose to invest a significant portion of the state's national resources in public schooling. Taking into account the costs and political significance attributed to public education, it is not surprising that governments establish some formal mechanism responsible for the monitoring of schools, intended to ensure that schools operate professionally and in accordance with national goals and policies. However, when considering voices arguing for schools' autonomy and, at the same time, policy makers' inclination to control schools, a dilemma arises: how can control and trust be pursued simultaneously? This dilemma is obviously applicable in all public education systems and it is therefore not surprising that they all have some formal monitoring mechanism with individuals holding positions often termed "superintendent." Nevertheless, substantial dissimilarities among different educational contexts may be found in role expectations and degrees of regulation superintendents are expected to enforce. For more information please check out our website for the full book description.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 20, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-62948-982-4
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