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Teacher Participation in Policy Making in Dutch Schools

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In this chapter we present the design (section 4) and results (section 5) of the Dutch study on principal and teacher perceptions of teacher responsibility for school change. As a background for the results, we first present in section 2 some information about the Dutch educational system at the time of data collection, its foundation and structure.

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  1. Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    Theo Wubbels (Associate Dean)

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  1. Consortium for Cross-Cultural Research in Education, UK

    Allen Menlo

  2. Consortium for Cross-Cultural Research in Education, UK

    LeVerne Collet

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Wubbels, T. (2015). Teacher Participation in Policy Making in Dutch Schools. In: Menlo, A., Collet, L. (eds) Do Teachers Wish to be Agents of Change?. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-959-3_10

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