"Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?" All Curriculum Policy Makers Potentially Wear Black Hats.

Smithson, Alan

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Publication Date: 1985

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"Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?" All Curriculum Policy Makers Potentially Wear Black Hats.

Smithson, Alan

Journal of Educational Administration, v23 n1 p106-13 Win 1985

This article closes off a debate in this journal between the author and James D. Kaminsky concerning the latter's philosophical analysis of a "Freedom and Authority Memorandum" delivered to South Australian public schools in the early 1970s by then Director-General of Education, A. W. Jones. (TE)

Descriptors: Community Control, Curriculum, Democracy, Democratic Values, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Participative Decision Making, Policy Formation, Politics of Education, School Based Management, School District Autonomy

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Audience: Administrators; Practitioners

Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia

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