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Directions: Journal of Educational Studies Pacific Curriculum Network
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School management and organization

Title: Professionalism and bureaucracy : can they develop together?

Author: Velayutham, Thillainayakam
Subject:  Bureaucracy
 School management and organization
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.30, vol.16, no.1, 1994
Collation: p. 69-83 ;

Abstract: Dr Velayutham explores ways in which educational administration can be improved, by enhancing interaction between the administrators and the practitioners they serve.

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Title: Professionalism and partnership : a development dilemma for schools?

Author: Velayutham, Thillainayakam
Subject:  School management and organization
 Teacher participation in administration
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.31, vol.16, no.2, 1994
Collation: p. 84-89 ;

Abstract: There is an increasing trend for school professionals, the members of their school managements and governing boards to formally meet together. These meetings are designed to exchange ideas, to acknowledge each others’ contributions and to examine ways in which they could perform even better. Such occasions bring together the parties involved in the management of educational enterprises. They signify the ongoing process of a collaborative approach to educational development at the community level as well as at the level of a cluster of schools. It shows that such a cluster of schools and their community representatives at the management level could work together cooperatively and collaboratively to provide quality education. This is possible even if initial difficulties arise in such emerging relationships. With commitment to collaborate for the common good of the community, one not only overcomes the initial impediments, but also turns them to one’s advantage. In the development of schools and the high level of quality education that they are able to deliver, one can very well see that the partnership is in fact working well and bearing fruit. This shows that partnership between professionals and the community is not merely a strategy but a process leading to and paving the way for development– a development that is meaningful and satisfying to all concerned.

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Title: The learning organisation : promise and potential

Author: Bhindi, Narottam
Subject:  School management and organization
 Organizational learning
 Organizational effectiveness
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.34, vol.18, no.1, 1996
Collation: p. 3-14 ;

Abstract: The author recommends the Learning Organisation as a meritorious concept for application to educational settings generally, and to the Pacific educational context in particular. He also acknowledges, however, that it is a concept which poses challenges to our administrators and is one which needs to be adapted to suit each country’s cultural context.

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Decision making

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Fiji

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Oceania

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Parent participation

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