A Socially Critical View of the Self-Managing School Book

	Introduction	1
1	Democratic Participation or Efficient Site Management: The Social and Political Location of the Self-Managing School	11
2	The New Right and the Self-Managing School	35
3	Paradigm Shifts and Site-based Management in the United States: Toward a Paradigm of Social Empowerment	49
4	Culture, Cost and Control: Self-Management and Entrepreneurial Schooling in England and Wales	63
5	Reinventing Square Wheels: Planning for Schools to Ignore Realities	83
6	The Evaluative State and Self-Management in Education: Cause for Reflection?	99
7	The Politics of Devolution, Self-Management and Post-Fordism in Schools	117
8	Pushing Crisis and Stress down the Line: The Self-Managing School	137
9	Managerialism, Market Liberalism and the Move to Self-Managing Schools in New Zealand	153
10	Teaching Cultures and School-based Management: Towards a Collaborative Reconstruction	171
11	'And Your Corporate Manager Will Set You Free ...': Devolution in South Australian Education	191
12	Managerialism and Market Forces in Vocational Education: 'Balkanizing' Education in the 'Banana Republic'	213
13	Self-Managing Schools, Choice and Equity	229
	Notes on Contributors	245
	Index	247