Decentralization and School-Based Management

Part 1 Introduction: some problems, a recommendation and anticipations. Part 2 A look at the literature: the structural view of organizations rationality and organizations political decentralization in education organizational decentralization in education conceptual synthesis and key questions. Part 3 Methods of research: how the study was conducted. Part 4 Results: what is the structure of school-based management? does school-based management provide flexibility of decision making? does school-based management provide a system of accountability? does school-based management result in an increase in productivity? how does the change to school-based management progress?. Part 5 Conclusions: discussions and reflections on the structure and outcomes of decentralization some general thoughts on decentralization.