| Description |
xvi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: 1. Community and the politics of participation / Rob Gilbert, Jacqueline Dewar -- 2. Discourses of participation / Fazal Rizvi -- 3. Busybodies, antibodies, nobodies - or somebodies?: the rhetoric and the realities of volunteering / Brigid Limerick -- 4. Participating parents?: a feminist discussion of the historical relationships between parents, schools and community in Victoria / Jill Blackmore -- 5. Community partnerships: a response to values confusion? / Frank Crowther, Paula Wilkes -- 6. Restructuring Australian schooling: changing conceptions of top-down and bottom-up reforms / Bob Lingard, John Knight, Paige Porter -- 7. School effectiveness and school-based decision-making: themes for Australian education in the 1990s / Tony Townsend -- 8. From chalky towers to class 10b Plain Street: policy construction at different times / Leonie Daws -- 9. State control and participative practices: legislation in Australian states / Peter Meadmore -- 10. From vision to reality: the role of policy in school development / Tony Townsend -- 11. From involvement to participation: six levels of school-community interaction / Izabel Soliman -- 12. Completing the circle: towards valued aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in schooling / Penny Tripcony -- 13. Managing curriculum change collaboratively / Mike Middleton -- 14. Consultative processes to empower education / Howard Nielsen -- 15. Devolution: what is happening in Queensland schools? / Brigid Limerick, Clarrie Burke, Georgia Smeal -- 16. Devolution and division: lessons from New Zealand / Elizabeth Hatton -- 17. School-community partnership: neighbourhood meetings / Bill Mulford -- 18. Bringing the teachers in: participation through representative school committees / Peter Watkins -- 19. Teaching an aide - aiding a teacher? / Warren Prior -- 20. Community action: two rural communities and their schools / Rob Allan, Bob Meyenn, Don Squires |
| Notes |
CIP confirmed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Community and school -- Australia -- Case studies.
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Community and school -- Australia.
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School management and organization -- Parent participation -- Australia.
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School management and organization -- Australia -- Decision making.
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| Author |
Limerick, Brigid, 1942-
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Nielsen, Howard, 1951-
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| ISBN |
0729509915 |
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