School Management and Effectiveness in Developing Countries The Post-Bureaucratic School

by Harber, Clive; Davies, Lynn

• ISBN13: 9780826479105
• ISBN10: 0826479103
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781847142511
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-08
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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. In the second section the analysis of schools as bureaucratic facades is proposed. The reality of school life, from which any theory of school effectiveness must derive, is illustrated by an ethnographic account of the job of the headteacher in developing countries.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's ForewordIntroduction: Heading SouthPart One: the State of the Field1. Education in the context of developing countries2. School effectiveness and ineffectivenessPart Two: Contextual realities for school management3. School as an organization4. "Leadeship"Part Three: Explaining school management - levels of understanding5. Macro Level6. Meso level7. Micro levelPart Four: Towards Post-Bureaucracy8. Need for flexible schools9. Democracy and the post-bureaucratic schoolConclusion: School management and development: goals and own goalsReferencesIndexes