Title: Decentralization and school management in Namibia : the ideologies of education bureaucrats in implementing government policies : research article

Authors: Pomuti, Hertha and Weber, Everard

Place: [Caïro etc.

Publisher: Hindawi publishing corporation. International scholarly research network] (ISRN)

Year: 2012

Journal: ISRN education

Volume: Article ID 731072

PAGE: --

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: administrative reform, public administration, education, decentralization in government, namibia

Abstract: This paper examines the ideologies of school inspectors, principals, and teachers in the implementation of decentralized, cluster-based educational change in post-Apartheid Namibia. It shows that the worldviews of the educationists can be characterized as authoritarian, bureaucratic, and managerial.

URL: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ac65/f0a7ce278534be2806b3f8a8b6bb2e029190.pdf

Document type: E-article