The Tensions Between Shared Governance and Advancing Educational Equity

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• 作者：Angelina E. Castagno ; Charles Hausman
• 关键词：Shared governance ; Educational equity ; Site based management ; Shared decision making ; Distributed leadership ; Directive leadership ; Social justice leadership
• 刊名：The Urban Review
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：49
• 期：1
• 页码：96-111
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Education, general; Community and Environmental Psychology; Sociology, general;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1960
• 卷排序：49

文摘

This article examines the relationship between shared governance and one school district’s (in)ability to advance educational equity. Specifically, we consider the district’s policies, discourse, and practice around equity within the context of site-based management and shared decision making. We suggest that if equity is indeed a major district responsibility, then it seems inconsistent to leave equity at the mercy of shared governance and occasional externally-imposed mandates because most individual school leaders and educators are not currently taking up this agenda or implementing changes that would result in equitable education. Thus, our work suggests that progress toward educational equity may best be achieved through top-down, directive leadership in districts.