From autonomy to quality management: NPM impacts on school governance in Switzerland

Autor:	Carla Jana Svaton, Judith Hangartner
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Economic growth Quality management Sociology and Political Science Corporate governance media_common.quotation_subject Compulsory education Public administration Decentralization School choice Education New public management Accountability Economics Autonomy media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Educational Administration and History. 45:354-369
ISSN:	1478-7431 0022-0620
DOI:	10.1080/00220620.2013.822352
Popis:	This article reviews the impact of discourses on ‘New Public Management’ (NPM) on compulsory schooling in Switzerland during the last two decades and traces its implementation in the Canton of Bern. The analysis suggests that while NPM reformers initially promoted increased school autonomy, the introduction of market elements and school choice, the focus subsequently shifted to a concern with school management, supervision and accountability. NPM-guided reforms led to the introduction of headteachers and quality management procedures in a majority of cantons. Ethnographic research in the Canton of Bern shows that NPM-influenced decentralisation policy results in a growing standardisation of schools' conditions and processes. Additionally, lay school boards as traditional, democratically legitimised bodies of local supervision are coming under threat.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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