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The Management of Dilemmas in School Restructuring: A Case Analysis.
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Dimmock, Clive – School Leadership & Management, 1999
Summarizes a case study of dilemmas facing a Western Australian secondary headteacher involved in restructuring his school. Analyzes his methods of coping with intractable situations (like school expansion and performance management) and outcomes. Dilemmas offer both opportunities and challenges for visionary, proactive, and creative school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Coping, Creativity
Principals and School Restructuring: Conceptualising Challenges as Dilemmas.
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Dimmock, Clive – Journal of Educational Administration, 1999
Chronicles perceived dilemmas of 20 Australian principals whose work lives were preoccupied with school restructuring. Findings suggest two main types of dilemmas: general, personal/professional "states of mind" and specific, practical organizational dilemmas. Research is needed on devising management solutions and improving leadership…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Principals, Qualitative Research
The Principal's Contribution to School Restructuring Initiatives Aimed at Improving Teaching and Learning: Exploring the Potential of the Edited Topical Life History Research Approach.
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O'Donoghue, Thomas; Dimmock, Clive A. J. – Educational Management & Administration, 1997
Studies of the principalship have failed to keep pace with the changing contexts in which principals must act. Advocates an edited topical life-history approach to address this problem. Illustrates this claim, using a Western Australia study exploring why some principals are more successful than others at guiding school restructuring initiatives.…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Collegiality, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Australia's Grand Experiment: School Reform and the National Schools Project.
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Louden, William; Wallace, John – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1997
Australia's National Schools Project tried to facilitate restructuring by abolishing, bending, or breaking the rules that prevented schools from improving student outcomes. Since 1992, the 50-school project has expanded to over 200 sites. An evaluation of three NSP schools identifies barriers (cultural resistance and structural complexity) and…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
School Restructuring and the Dilemmas of Principals' Work.
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Wildy, Helen; Louden, William – Educational Management & Administration, 2000
The complexity of principals' work may be characterized according to three dilemmas: accountability, autonomy, and efficiency. Narrative vignettes of 74 Australian principals revealed that principals were fair and inclusive. When faced with restructuring dilemmas, however, they favored strong over shared leadership, efficiency over collaboration,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Evaluation, Collegiality, Cooperation
Restructuring Australian Educational Administration: Japanese Management Strategies, Taylorisation, and Best Practices.
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Watkins, Peter – 1992
In all forms of workplaces administrators have been exhorted to introduce what are perceived to be the "best practices" operating in the more successful economies. The education "industry" in Australia appears to be no different in this regard from other industries. Invariably, the "best practices" proposed for the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Educational Administration, Educational Change