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Publication Date: 1991
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The Assumptive Worlds of Fledgling Administrators.
Marshall, Catherine; Mitchell, Barbara A.
Education and Urban Society, v23 n4 p396-415 Aug 1991
Studies school-site administrators' understanding about ways of gaining/maintaining power, control, and predictability. Multisite study data concerning assistant principals identify rules of the game for four micropolitical (site-level assumptive world) domains. Assumptive worlds create avoidance of value conflicts and risky change, group-think defensiveness, and one-best-system mentalities in administrators. (RLC)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Assistant Principals, Behavior Standards, Educational Environment, High Schools, Inner City, Instructional Leadership, Politics of Education, Power Structure, Professional Autonomy, School Administration, Social Behavior, Subcultures, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Urban Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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