The Politics of Life in Schools Power, Conflict, and Cooperation [Paperback]

This in-depth study of grassroots politics - `micropolitics' - in schools, which includes examples from the UK and the USA, explores how teachers, administrators and their students use political power to protect their interests and to bring about change in the status quo.This in-depth study of grassroots politics - `micropolitics' - in schools, which includes examples from the UK and the USA, explores how teachers, administrators and their students use political power to protect their interests and to bring about change in the status quo.The Micropolitical Perspective - Joseph Blase
The Micropolitics of Radical Change - Stephen J Ball and Richard Bowe
Budgets, Management and Control in British Schools
Contrived Collegiality - Andrew Hargreaves
The Micropolitics of Teacher Collaboration
Community Influence and School Micropolitics - H Dickson Corbett
A Case Example
When District Authority Intrudes Upon the Local School - Paula Kleine-Kracht and Kenneth K Wong
The Cognitive Politics of Principals and Teachers - Gary L Anderson
Ideological Control in an Elementary School
The Cultural Chasm Between Administrator and Teacher Cultures - Catherine Marshall
A Micropolitical Puzzle
The Micropolitics of Leadership in an Urban Elementary School - William D Greenfield Jr
The Everyday Political Perspectives of Teachers Toward Students - Joseph Blase
The Dynamics of Diplomacy
Toward a Micropolitics of Classroom Interaction - David Bloome and Jerri Willett
Analysis and Discussion - Joseph Blase
Some Concluding Remarks