The Politicisation of Administrative Reform in Australian Education

S. Alinski , Rules for Radicals, New York: Vintage , 1971, pp. 12-13.

H. Beard , ''Changing Structures in Education", in W.S. Simpkins , A.R. Thomas and E.B. Thomas (cds.) Principal and Change: The Auslralian Experience. Armidale: U.N.E. 1987.

A. Casey , "Education Region to go as Government Cuts Costs", Sydney Aforning Herald, 17/ 6/82, p. 3.

National Commission on Excellence in Education, A Nation at Risk, Washington: U.S. Department of Education, 1983.

C. Pipho , "States Move Reform Closer to Reality" Phi Delta Kappan, December, 1986, p. 1.

Ibid. p. 1.

See the following reports. Quality of Education Review Committee, Quality of Education in Australia, Canberra, 1985: Commonwealth Schools Commission, Quality and Equality, Canberra, December 1985: Commonwealth Schools Commission, In the National Interest: Secondary Education and Youth Policy in Australia, Canberra, 1987: Committee of Inquiry into Education in Western Australia, Education in Western Australia (Beazley Report), Perth, Education Dept. 1984: D. Swan and K.R.

McKinnon. Future Directions of secondary Education: A Report, Sydney, NSW Department of Education, 1984: Education 2000: Issues and Options for the future of Education in Queensland. Brisbane, Department of Education, 1985: Secondary Education: The Future, Hobart, Education Department Tasmania, 1987: Better Schools in Western Australia: A Programme for Improvement, Perth, Ministry of Education, 1987: L. Angus et al. Restructuring Victorian Education: Current Issues, Geelong, Deakin Institute for Studies in Education, November, 1984: Ministerial Review of Postcompulsory Schooling (J. Blackburn, Chairperson), Melbourne, Ministry of Education, 1985: Ministerial Papers 1-6, Melbourne, Ministry of Education, 1985: The Government Decision on the Report of the Ministry Structures Project Team, Melbourne, Ministry of Education, 1986: Taking Schools into the 1990s Melbourne, Ministry of Education, 1986.

In the National Interest, op.cit.

M.G. Yudof , "Educational Policy Research and the New Consensus of the 1980s" Phi Delta Kappan, 85, 7, March, 1984, p. 456.

Examples are the "Good Schools' Project" sponsored by G. Allen, C.E.O. Ministry of Education, Victoria and the "Effective Schools Project" of the N.S.W. Department of Education.

G. Boomer , "Issues Confronting Australian Education Now", Australian College of Education, N.S.W. Newsletter, 86, 4, December 1986, p. 1.

ibid. p. 1.

R.J.S. Macpherson , "Reform and Regional Administration of Education in Victoria: 1979-1983", Australian Journal of Public Administration , 45, 3, September, 1986. p. 220.

M.D. Cohen and J.G. March , Leadership and Ambiguity, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.

D. Schon The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action, New York: Basic Books, 1983.

ibid. p. 16.

ibid. p. 17.

ibid. pp. 39-41 and L.G. Bolman and T.E. Deal , Modern Approaches to Understanding and Afanaging Organisations, San Francisco : Jossey Bass, 1984, pp. 4-7.

W.S. Simpkins , "Policy Making as a Dialectic: Policies on Participation ", in W.S. Simpkins , E.B. Thomas and A.R. Thomas (eds.) The Principal and Change: An Australian Perspective , Armidale: University of New England , 1987.

White Paper on Strategies and Structures for Education in Victorian Government Schools , Melbourne: Government Printer , 1980.

R.J. Bates "The Socio-political Context of Administrative Change" in M. Frazer , J. Dunston and P. Creed (eds.), Perspective on Organisational Change, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1985 , p. 295.

ibid. p. 229.

ibid. p. 284.

L.G. Bolman and T.E. Deal , op.cit p. 109.

See Ministerial Papers 1-6 op.cit. in which devolution, school-based decision making, consultation, participation, collaboration and consensus are highlighted.

H. Beare , "Shared Meanings about Education: The Economic Paradigm Considered ", The 1986 Buntine Oration, Joint National Conference of the Australian College of Education and the Australian Council for Educational Administration, Adelaide, September 1986.

They have provided legislation for school councils.

Quality Education: Teacher Efficiency Review, Sydney, N.S.W. Department of Education, 1985: A Statement of Corporate Purpose and Goals, Sydney, N.S.W. Department of Education, 1987: Education 2000, Department of Education, Queensland 1985.

A Statement of Corporate Purposes and Goals. N.S.W. Department of Education, op.cit. p. 16: Secondary Education: The Future op.cit. p. 28: Education 2000: Summary Report. Queensland Department of Education op.cit. p. 13.

Quality Education: Teacher Efficiency Review, Sydney, 1985, op.cit.

E. Wallin "A Political and Pedagogical Analysis of the Swedish School Reform", AREA Division B Newsletter No. 7, April, 1987, p. 7.

M. Frazer , "Designing Detailed Organisational Change", in M. Frazer , J. Dunstan and P. Creed (eds.) Perspectives on Organisational Change, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire , 1985, p. 251.

Quality Education Review Committee Report, op.cit.

Quality and Equality Report, op.cit.

In the National Interest, op.cit.

Quality Education Review Committee Report, op.cit.

Commonwealth Programs for Schools : Administrative Guidelines for 1986, Canberra: January, 1986, p. 1.

Ibid p. 2.

R. Winder "My Hopes and Aspirations for Education Over the Next Five Years" The Australian College of Education, N.S IV. Chapter Newsletter , No 87, 2, June 1987, p. 2.

ibid. p. 2.

ibid. pp.2-3

Secondary Education: The Future, Hobart, 1987, op.cit pp. 1-4.

Speech Notes of The Honourable L.W. Powell , Minister for Education, Queensland, on the Bill to Amend the Education Act, 1987, p. 1.

ibid, p. 41.

H. Beare "Shared Meanings About Education: The Economic Paradigm Considered " 1986, op. cit p. 6.

ibid. p. 6.

ibid. pp. 6-7.

H.A. Giroux "Thunder on the Right: Education and the Ideology of the Quick Fix", Curriculum Inquiry, 15, 1, 1985, p. 60.

ibid. p. 60.

ibid. p. 58.

ibid. pp.58-59.

H. Beare , "The Structural Reform Movement in Australian Education and its Effect on Schools", Journal of Educational Administration, 41, Summer 1983.

ibid. p. 153.

K.R. McKinnon , "Meeting Needs: Seven Years' Hard Labour" in Melbourne Studies in Education, 1. Palmer (ed.), Melbourne; Melbourne University Press, 1984.

ibid. pp. 131-132.

For detailed descriptions and analyses of these reforms see M. Frazer , J. Dunstan , P. Creed , 1985, op.cit: L. Angus et al. A Report to the State Board of Education , 1984, op.cit.: P.J. Creed , "Implementing Change in a State Department of Education", Educational Administration Review, 5, 1, Autumn 1987: J. Chapman and W.L. Boyd "Decentralization, Devolution, and the School Principal: Australian Lessons on Statewide Educational Reform", Educational Administration Quarterly 22, 4, Fall, 1986: H. Beare , "Changing Structures in Education" in W.S. Simpkins et. al. op.cit 1987.

Ministerial Papers 1-6 op.cit.

Direct discussion with over thirty Victorian educators at each of two workshops in January and May, 1987 and with over fifty administrators at the Victorian Council for Educational Administration Annual Conference, Melbourne 1987.

K. McKinnon , 1984, op.cit p. 123.

Ministerial Papers 1-6, op.cit.: the Honourable, R. Cavalier, Minister of Education, N.S.W. was the chief initiator of the Qualiy Education: Teacher Efficiency Review, 1985 op. cit.: The Honourable Mr. R.J. Pearce, Minister of Education, Western Australia was the main architect of the Report on Better Schools in Western Australia: A. Programme for Improvement, 1987 op.cit.: the Honourable L.W. Powell, Minister of Education Queensland is actively involved in educational reform in Queensland and has a Bill to amend the Education Act before the Queensland Parliament.

R.J.S. Macpherson , op.cit p. 217.

W.S. Simpkins , "Policy Making as a Dialectic: Policies on Participation" in W.S. Simpkins , E.B. Thomas and A.R. Thomas (eds.) The Principal and Change: The Australian Experience, Armidale : University of New England (1987 ) p. 7.

M.E. Olson , Power in Societies New York: McMillan , 1970, p. 232.

ibid. p. 233.

H. Beare "Conflicts in School Governance" Paper presented at the Jubilee Conference in Educational Administration, Armidale, October 1986. p. 22.

J. Kirner "Organisational Change in Education: The Parent Line" in M. Frazer , J. Dunstan , P. Creed , 1985 op.cit pp. 360-361.

The Government Decision on the Report of the Ministry Structures Project Team, Melbourne: Ministry of Education, 1986, p. 5.

N. Beattie , "Formalized Parental Participation in Education. A Comparative Perspective (France, German Federal Republic, England & Wales)", Comparative Education, 14, 1 March 1978.

F. Rizva "Multiculturalism and Educative Leadership" in F. Rizva (ed.) Education Leadership in a Multicultural Community, Educative Leadership Monograph Series No. 4, Sydney: Department of Education, 1987 p. 26. (In Press).

L. Angus et al. 1984 op.cit.

ibid. p. 110.

ibid. pp. 74, 112, 143, 144.

R Bateslin M. Frazer, J. Dunstan and P. Creed opcit 1985, pp. 283-284.

M. Frazer in M. Frazer et. al. 1985, ibid. p. 253.

E. Wallin , 1987 op.cit p. 5.

ibid. p. 4.

R. Bates in M. Frazer et al.

ibid. p. 289.

ibid. p. 298.

Western Australia has established a "Corporate Services Directorate" in its new Ministry of Education; Victoria has established a "Corporate Management Group" in its Ministry; and New South Wales has issued a statement of its Education Department's "Corporate Purposes and Goals".

B. Finkelstein , "Education and the Retreat from Democracy in the United States, 1979-198?", Teachers College Record, 86, 1984, pp. 280-281.

H.A. Giroux and P. McLaren , "Teacher Education and the Politics of Engagement: The Case for Democratic Schooling" Harvard Educational Review, 56, 3, August 1986, p. 244.

P.A. Duignan , "The Principal's Role: Problems and Pressures ", in W.S. Simpkins , E.B. Thomas and A.R. Thomas (eds.) The Principal and Change: The Australian Perspective Armidale: University of New England , 1987.

G. Boomer , op.cit p. 2.

P.A. Duignan , C. Gaut and R.J.S. Macpherson , Educative Leadership Project: Project Specifications, Armidale: University of New England, July, 1986.

J. Walker , "Educative Leadership for curriculum Development: A Pragmatic and Holistic Approach" in J. Walker (ed.) Educative Leadership for Curriculum Development, Educative Leadership Monograph Series No. 2, Canberra: A.C.T. Schools Authority, 1987.

ibid. p. 16.

ibid. p.

P.A. Duignan , C. Gaut , and R.J.S. Macpherson op.cit, 1986, p. 8.

J. Walker op.cit p. 19.

J. Walker op.cit p. 19.

J. Walker op.cit p. 19.