Bureaucracy and the Schools [microform] / David Seeley
- Bib ID:
- 5340137
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Seeley, David
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1977
- 28 p.
- Summary:
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This paper briefly reviews how New York City has developed its bureaucratic school structures, the pathologies that have developed within them, and some remedies that can help to change them into structures that will improve city schools. Some historians claimed that reformers purposely created bureaucratic school systems to provide a docile pool of trained manpower for the growing industrial machine. Others attributed it to the pressure of numbers. Regardless of the reason for the development of educational bureaucracies they do have severe disadvantages. They are inefficient, they are educationally ineffective, and they are likely to violate basic democratic values such as individualism, fairness, political accountability, and respect for pluralistic values. Although existing practices are resistant to change, some of the areas in which change should be initiated are: budget reform, school level management, and decentralization of very large systems. It is suggested that the ills of the bureaucratic structure can be diminished under a city education commissioner only if certain minimum requirements are set up to prevent him from merely taking over and being captured by the present school bureaucracy. (Author/AM)
- Notes:
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Public Education Association, New York, NY
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- ERIC
- Copyright:
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