Decentralisation and Regionalisation in Educational Administration: comparisons of Venezuela, Colombia and Spain

Centralization and decentralization of schools' physical facilities management in Nigeria

“…Consistent with this assumption, the researcher postulated that facilities would be more available and functional in centralized or decentralized school districts, depending on which of these management policy is more efficient for the management of schools infrastructural facilities. And in trend with current reports in the literature (Rondinelli, 1983; USAID, 1997; Hanson, 1989; Hawkins, 2004) associated with reported higher levels of efficiency and effectiveness in decentralized systems, we hypothesized that schools' physical facilities would be more available and functional in decentralized than in centralized school districts.…”

From the local to the supranational: curriculum reform and the production of the ideal citizen in two federal systems, Germany and Spain

“…The Church controlled the state education system during the Francoist era when education was seen as a vehicle for promoting Spanish nationalist rhetoric and Catholic values by way of a 'cultural transmission model based on ideological control rather than instrumental knowledge' (Bonal 2000: 203). In general, textbooks from this period focused on three main areas: Catholicism, Spanish nationalism, and Franco as el caudillo (the maximum leader) (Hanson 1989). Franco himself was glorified throughout society and in schools.…”

The Decentralisation Debate: Thinking about Power

“…Apart from critical reflection on the rationale for and consequences of decentralisation (Weiler 1990;Lauglo 1995), early research on decentralisation was generally based on functional analyses of related concepts such as devolution, deconcentration, privatisation and reconfiguration, on the distribution (or redistribution) of decision-making powers, and on resource allocation in education (Bray and Lillis 1985;Hanson 1989;Winkler 1989;OECD 1995;SARA 1996 and.…”