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ERIC Number: EJ421264
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0268-0939
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Agenda, Power and Text: The Formulation of Policy in School Councils.
Watkins, Peter
Journal of Education Policy, v5 n4 p315-31 1990
Explores policy formation in school councils and its implications for the future of educational decision making in Victoria, Australia. Focuses on the importance of agenda construction, utilizing theoretical works of Giddens, Bachrach, and others. Results suggest that human beings produce, reproduce, and transform the social realities enveloping them. Includes 28 references. (MLH)
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Policy Formation, Politics of Education, Power Structure, School Based Management, School Councils
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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