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Educational Management, Decentralisation and Privatisation

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The chapter begins with a discussion of educational decentralisation in Africa and distinguishes between leadership. The main focus of the chapter is on the local level of educational management (districts and schools) and their relationship with central government. The next section therefore discusses the potentially enhanced role of the educational district under a policy of decentralisation. The following section considers the school as a (bureaucratic) form of organisation; before going on in the next section we discuss school management and the role of the head teacher in the light of this. The next section examines more democratic forms of school management in Africa and how such schools have functioned in practice. The final section of the chapter considers privately managed schools.

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Harber, C. (2017). Educational Management, Decentralisation and Privatisation. In: Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57382-3_8

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