Mike Smith is at the School of
Education of the University of
Nottingham. In this article he
describes a preliminary, comparative
study of the understandings and
images of management activities
revealed by United Kingdom and
Hong Kong teachers. It seeks to relate
these findings to the general field of
teacher perceptions, particularly as
developed by social psychologists
working within attribution theory
and by researchers into educational
organisations.
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