Tangled hierarchies : teachers as professionals and the management of schools
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Tangled hierarchies : teachers as professionals and the management of schools
(The Jossey-Bass education series)
Josey-Bass Publishers, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-224) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Nothing short of a renegotiation of the division of labour between teachers and administrators will ensure the success of current efforts to restructure American schools. This new book explores how this renegotiation can be accomplished - proposing specific changes in school organization that will untangle existing hierarchies and achieve the critical balance between administrative concern for coordination and individual teachers' needs for autonomy. Going beyond short-term compromise solutions, the authors draw on the underlying logic that governs professional relationships within schools. They explain how replacing existing formal structures - for example, structures that govern reporting relationships, decision making, and collective bargaining - with more informal relationships can provide the necessary integration of management decision making at the district, school and classroom levels.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - professionals in bureaucracies
- the work of teachers
- autonomy and control
- restructuring the job of teaching
- compensating teachers
- structuring participation
- the changing role of unions
- conclusion - restructuring relationships in schools.
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