Schools In The School-based Management Powers And Responsibilities Of Research

As a systematic management mode, the School-based Management has been adopted in developed countries for the improvement of the self-management level of schools for over twenty years, with results obtained. It is also put into application in many regions of China in the Educational Reform. With Shanghai as a reform case, the conduction of this mode and the distribution of power and responsibility involved are analyzed and studied in this paper, with a view to summing up the experience and promoting the reform of educational management.In the first chapter, the author draws a line between School-based Management mode in China and in Western countries and puts them in comparison, starting from the connotation of this mode and the features of its application in Shanghai.In the second chapter, the investigation into the Shanghai's primary and secondary schools by sending out questionnaires and interviewing with the principals and teachers shows that there is theoretic possibility of the independent management and the space for power conduction, which allows room for the conduction of school-based management. However, the power and responsibility held by school and government are ill matched, and the autonomy on the part of the school should be strengthened and further guaranteed; the teachers of school hope for the reinforcement of the school power on the one hand and the democratic supervision of the exercise of headmaster power on the other hand; the power and responsibility in the practice of School-based Management mode also needs further clarification. Hence, the following chapters revolve around the inquisitions of this chapter and put forward countermeasures. This chapter thus is the substantial evidence of this paper.In the third chapter, the author points out that the largest obstacle is the inertia of traditional centralization to the School-based Management and the match of power and responsibility. Furthermore, in the framework of some modern theories, such as Public Choice, Mode of Post bureaucracy, the issue of the scant autonomy of school is exposed, as well as some other problems, asthe lack of management ideas, the absence of power and responsibility in balancing equity and efficiency, etc.The fourth chapter analyses the conditions of the realization of the matching of power and responsibility, with the idea that the School-based Management is a historical and evolving process, that is, its realization involves multiple conditions. The first is the opportunity for the change from principal responsible, school-based course to School-based Management; the second is the matching of power and responsibility of headmaster and teachers; the third is the democratic participation on the part of the principal and the teachers; the fourth is the financial power, adequate fund for running a school, which is a strong safeguard for the proper distribution of power and responsibility.The fifth chapter describes some successful models of School-based Management and the enlightenment we can gain from it. In fact, most of the examples in Shanghai are about school-based curriculum development, thus not adequate to illustrate the ideas of the School-based Management. Besides, the author also attempts some conception of decentralized management mode. A track of comparative thinking this chapter follows.The sixth chapter expounds the application of the four main management affaires in the power and responsibility of School-based Management, with a view to further illustrating the intention of "countermeasures" in this paper. Namely, first, school-based curriculum development gives prominence to the students-orientated course principle. Secondly, school-based training leads teachers' profession development from external control to internal control. Thirdly, practice of the school-based financial system integrates the educational resources. Lastly, win over some school-based personnel power to optimize the personnel resources.This paper, through manifold investigation methods, such as literature research, compa...