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ERIC Number: EJ426489
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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Professionalism or Bureaucracy? Redesigning Teaching.
Firestone, William A.; Bader, Beth D.
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v13 n1 p67-86 Spr 1991
This study examined three districts that redesigned teaching, two with career ladders and one with shared governance. The reforms, both professional and bureaucratic, had important consequences for the process and outcomes of the redesign of teaching. Discrete organizational and political factors were identified. (TJH)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Career Ladders, Case Studies, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Change, Politics of Education, Professional Autonomy, School Districts, School Restructuring, Secondary School Teachers, Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Conditions
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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