The mid-1980s economic setback raised questions about overcentralization and set in motion a process of decentralization in education and a movement toward greater consultation and downsizing of government (Ho & Gopinathan, 1999). This was to have implications for traditional notions of leadership in general and, in the case of education, for the role of the principal. The Towards Excellence in Schools" report, for example. spelled out the general direction of the required changes and the establishment firstly of independent schools and later, autonomous schools, and demonstrated a genuine desire of the government and the MoE to provide school Principals with autonomy. The economic shock had set in process a movement away from the role of the principal as predominantly a manager or administrator in predominantly bureaucratic, centralized education system to that of educational leader with growing executive powers. our assertion is that the two exceptional principals in our Improving Schools study took advantage of these processes. Decentralization created a space that they were amongst the first take advantage and test the bound to aries of
The mid-1980s economic setback raised questions about overcentralization and set in motion a process of decentralization in education and a movement toward greater consultation and downsizing of government (Ho & Gopinathan, 1999). This was to have implications for traditional notions of leadership in general and, in the case of education, for the role of the principal. The Towards Excellence in Schools" report, for example. spelled out the general direction of the required changes and the establishment firstly of independent schools and later, autonomous schools, and demonstrated a genuine desire of the government and the MoE to provide school Principals with autonomy. The economic shock had set in process a movement away from the role of the principal as predominantly a manager or administrator in predominantly bureaucratic, centralized education system to that of educational leader with growing executive powers. our assertion is that the two exceptional principals in our Improving Schools study took advantage of these processes. Decentralization created a space that they were amongst the first take advantage and test the bound to aries of
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