Decentralisation and school-based management in Thailand

Title: Decentralisation and school-based management in Thailand
Creator: Gamage, David T.; Sooksomchitra, Pacharapimon
Relation: Decentralisation and Privatisation in Education: the Role of the State p. 151-167
Relation: http://www.springer.com/education/educational+policy/book/978-1-4020-3357-5
Publisher: Springer
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2006
Description: School-based management (SBM) in Thailand began in 1997 in the course of a reform aimed at overcoming a profound crisis in the education system. The present contribution reports on the introduction and institutionalisation of decentralisation and SBM with community participation in Thailand. The data reported here are based on an empirical survey of 1,000 school-board members from Bangkok as well as provincial and rural areas which was followed by 45 interviews with all relevant stakeholders. The results of the study are promising, as they show broad support for the reform among school principals as weli as board members. However, they also reveal a continuing need to train principals and board members in educational leadership and management.
Subject: school-based management; Thailand; decentralisation; community participation; educational leadership
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35382
Identifier: uon:3900
Identifier: ISBN:1402033575
Language: eng

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