Decentralisation, School-Based Management, and Quality

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Main Trends and Issues in Decentralisation, School-Based Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Decentralisation and School-Based Governance: A Comparative Study of Self-Governing School Models

      • David T. Gamage, Joseph Zajda

      Pages 3-22

   3. Globalized Educational Governance, Decentralization and Grassroots Responses

      • Holger Daun

      Pages 23-51

   4. Centralisation and Decentralisation in Education: A New Dimension to Policy

      • Brian J. Caldwell

      Pages 53-66

   5. Unresolved Issues in Globalisation, Decentralisation and Privatisation

      • David Turner

      Pages 67-75

   6. Decentralisation and Market Mechanisms in Education – Examples from Six European Countries

      • Holger Daun, Petroula Siminou

      Pages 77-101

   7. Managing School Change: Continuous Improvement Based on a Shared Vision and a Strategic Plan

      • David T. Gamage

      Pages 103-123

3. Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 124-124

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   2. Decentralisation of Education: Promising Initiative or Problematic Notion?

      • Suzanne Majhanovich

      Pages 127-139

   3. Decentralising Indonesian Education: The Promise and the Price

      • Alpha Amirrachman, Saefudin Syafi’i, Anthony Welch

      Pages 141-157

   4. Decentralisation in Senegal – Ambiguous Agendas for Community Education

      • Andrea Clemons

      Pages 159-174

   5. Decentralisation and Education in Africa: The Case of Uganda

      • Immaculate K. Namukas, Ronald Buye

      Pages 175-194

   6. State and Parental Roles in the Decentralised Education System in Nicaragua

      • Nuzzly Ruiz de Forsberg

      Pages 195-215

   7. Teachers’ Empowerment and Commitment at School-Based and Non-School-Based Sites

      • Haim Gaziel

      Pages 217-229

4. Back Matter

   Pages 231-238

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This book, which is the eighth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in decentralisation, school-based management (SBM) and quality in education globally. This book, which focuses on decentralisation and SBM as a governance strategy in education, presents theoretical aspects of the phenomenon of decentralisation/privatisation and contextualises them within the education research literature. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information concerning the dynamics of decentralisation and SBM that normally take place when reforms are instituted to decentralize authority and power. Above all, the authors offering the latest findings regarding major discourses in dec- tralisation, SBM and quality in educational systems in the global culture emphasise aspects of that dynamic interactive process (see also Geo-JaJa 2006a; Gamage and Sooksomchitra 2006, Zajda 2009). This dynamic interaction in the process that is implicit in the title of the book is reified by calls for restructuring of schools f- lowing the idea that schools are not promoting human rights, social cohesion and sustainable development. The chapters as a source book of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in decentralisation and SBM in education contr- ute to the educational literature while enhancing the understanding of the larger dynamics involved in educational reform. It offers a timely overview of current issues affecting decentralisation in education in the global culture.

• Decentralisation
• Educational Governance
• Globalisation
• comparative education
• education
• education policy
• education reforms
• educational research
• quality
• school-based management

• Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Australia

  Joseph Zajda

• School of Education, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia

  David T. Gamage

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