Perceptions of shared governance in an elementary school

From: Canadian Journal of Education | Date: July 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

In shared governance, teachers are assumed to have equal rights and responsibilities with their principal in making school-wide decisions. Such sharing requires a change in personal perceptions of leadership and of teachers' roles. We describe the first year of shared governance in one school and the teachers' responses to it. It was necessary to draw a distinction between the social technology used to implement shared governance and the action-research model used to examine it. Shared governance worked well, though not without conflict. However, the group eventually chose to use shared ...

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