ERIC ED390606: The Impact of Current Policy pdf

ERIC ED390606: The Impact of Current Policy

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Globally, the increasing breakdown of economic systems is resulting in decreased government responsibility for health, welfare, and education and is placing growing demands on communities. Government policies in Australia are moving toward self-managing schools that require strong community support and involvement. On the other hand, some policy statements suggest that self-managing schools must possess a degree of specialization in administration and curriculum delivery that depends upon a minimum size. The implication is that efficient self-managing schools must either be large, autonomous, and self-directing in administrative and educational arenas, or belong to a conglomerate of small schools linked in an organizational network. This paper argues that small rural schools have unique community-school links that may be destroyed when operations are combined with those of other small schools. However, the alternative of school closure can devastate the small rural community. Case studies of four small rural schools in Victoria (Australia) examine their relationships with their communities, the loss of teachers and school support services due to mandated staff reductions, community tensions and fears of school closing, and cultural and social issues affecting community responses to externally imposed change.

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• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1994-07
• Year: 1994
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis, Resistance to Change, Retrenchment, Rural Schools, School Based Management, School Closing, School Community Relationship, Small Schools, Bowie, Bernadette

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