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ERIC Number: EJ230815
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980-May
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From Social Movement to Professional Management: An Inquiry into the Changing Character of Leadership in Public Education.
Tyack, David; Hansot, Elizabeth
American Journal of Education, v88 n3 p291-319 May 1980
Proposes that (1) during most of the nineteenth century leadership in public education primarily took the form of guiding a decentralized social movement; and (2) at the turn of the twentieth century much of the direction of the educational system devolved upon university experts and professional managers. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Centralization, Decentralization, Decision Making, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership, Political Influences, Public Education, School Organization, Social Influences, Specialists
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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