From Autonomy to Quality Management: NPM Impacts on School Governance in Switzerland

Autor/inn/en	Hangartner, Judith; Svaton, Carla Jana
Titel	From Autonomy to Quality Management: NPM Impacts on School Governance in Switzerland
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Administration and History, 45 (2013) 4, S.354-369 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0620
DOI	10.1080/00220620.2013.822352
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Administration; Compulsory Education; Institutional Autonomy; Educational Change; Supervision; School Choice; Accountability; Governance; Educational History; Politics of Education; Quality Assurance; Standards; Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Schulpflicht; Institutionelle Autonomie; Bildungsreform; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Verantwortung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Qualitätssicherung; Standard; Schweiz
Abstract	This article reviews the impact of discourses on "New Public Management" (NPM) on compulsory schooling in Switzerland during the last two decades and traces its implementation in the Canton of Bern. The analysis suggests that while NPM reformers initially promoted increased school autonomy, the introduction of market elements and school choice, the focus subsequently shifted to a concern with school management, supervision and accountability. NPM-guided reforms led to the introduction of headteachers and quality management procedures in a majority of cantons. Ethnographic research in the Canton of Bern shows that NPM-influenced decentralisation policy results in a growing standardisation of schools' conditions and processes. Additionally, lay school boards as traditional, democratically legitimised bodies of local supervision are coming under threat. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10