School-based management: Arab education system in Israel

Journal of Educational Administration

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 191-208

  Arar, Khalid ^a   Abu Romi, Amal ^b  

^a The College for Academic Studies   (Israel)

^b The Arab Academic College for Education in Israel Haifa   (Israel)

Author keywords

Administration; Autonomy; Change management; Decentralized control; Decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962693206     PISSN: 09578234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JEA-09-2014-0118     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Allen, R. (2010), “Does school autonomy improve educational outcomes? Judging the performance of Foundation Secondary Schools in England”, DoQss Working Paper No. 10-02, University of London, London, available at: http://repec.ioe.ac.uk/REPEc/pdf/qsswp1002.pdf
2. Arar, K. (2012), “Israeli education policy since 1948 and the state of Arab education in Israel”, Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 1 No. 4, pp. 113-145.
3. Arar, K. (2014), “Vice-Principals in Arab schools in Israel: an era of reform”, International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. 96-113.
4. Arar, K. and Abu-Asbah, K. (2013), “‘Not just location’: attitudes and perceptions of education system administrators in local Arab governments in Israel”, International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 27 No. 1, pp. 54-73.
5. Arar, K., Abu-Asbah, K. and Abu-Nasra, A. (2014), “Arab parents’ involvement in school reform in Israel”, International Journal of Educational Reform, Vol. 23 No. 2, pp. 133-152.
6. Arar, K. and Oplatka, I. (2011), “Perceptions and implication of teachers evaluation among junior Arab school principals”, Studies in Educational Evaluation, Vol. 37 Nos 2-3, pp. 162-169.
7. Bandur, A. (2008), “A study of the implementation of school-based management in flores primary schools in Indonesia”, unpublished doctoral thesis, The University of New Castle, New Castle.
8. Bandur, A. (2012), “School-based management developments: challenges and impacts”, Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 50 No. 6, pp. 845-873.
9. Barrera-Osorio, F., Fasih, T., Patrinson, H.A. and Sant, L. (2009), Decentralization Decision-Making in Schools. The Theory and Evidence on School-based Management, The World Bank, Washington, DC.
10. Caldwell, B. (2005), “School-based management. Education policy series”, UNESCO International Academy of Education and International Institute for Educational Planning.
11. Caldwell, B. (2008), “Reconceptualizing the self-managing school”, Educational Management Administration and Leadership, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 235-252.
12. Cheng, Y.C. (1996), “The school based management mechanism for the school effectiveness development school”, Effectiveness and School Improvement, Vol. 7, pp. 35-61.
13. Cheong, Y. and Mok, M.M. (2007), “School-based management and paradigm shift in education: an empirical study”, International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 2 No. 6, pp. 517-542.
14. Cobbold, T. (2012), “School autonomy is not the success claimed: education research brief”, available at: file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/School%20Autonomy%20is%20Not%20the%20Success%20Claimed1%20(2).pdf
15. Conley, S. (1991), “Review of research on teacher participation in school decision- making”, Review of Research in Education, Vol. 17, pp. 225-226.
16. Gammage, D.T. (2008), “Three decades of implementation of school-based management in the Australian capital territory and Victoria in Australia”, International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 22 No. 7, pp. 664-675.
17. Gara, R. (2013), Arab Society in Israel 6th book: Population, Society and Economy, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem (Hebrew).
18. Gaziel, H., Bugler, R. and Nir, A. (2005), “Evaluation of the ramifications of the transition of schools to SBM on factors that hinder and expedite school development”, Research Report, Ministry of Education and Culture, Jerusalem.
19. Gibton, D. (2011), “Post-2000 law-based educational governance in Israel: from equality to diversity”, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership, Vol. 39 No. 1, pp. 434-454.
20. Hamuda, I. (2006), “Expectations and aspirations from the transition to school based management in Israeli Arab communities: possibilities and risks”, MA dissertation, University of Tel Aviv (Hebrew).
21. Hanushek, E., Link, L. and Woessman, L. (2013), “Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? Panel estimates from PISA”, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 104, pp. 212-232
22. Hopkins, D. (2012), “What we have learnt from school improvement about taking educational reform to scale”, in Christopher, C., Armstrong, P., Harris, A., Muijs, D., Reynold, D. and Sammons, P. (Eds), School Effectiveness and Improvement Research, Policy and Practice, Routledge, London, pp. 163-176.
23. Jabareen, I. and Agbariah, A. (2010), Government Policy and Civilian Initiatives to Promote Arab Education in Israel, Diraarat, Arab Center for Law and Policy, Nazareth (Hebrew).
24. Ministry of Education (2013a), “Self-management schools’ site”, available at: http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/UNITS/NihulAtzmi (Hebrew).
25. Ministry of Education (2013b), “Elementary schools’ transition to SBM: main perception of school-based management and principles of the National Transition Program for school-based management (disc)”, Pedagogic Administration, Ministry of Education, Jerusalem (Hebrew).
26. Morton, S. (2011), “Performance management or managing performance? Supporting a vision to become outstanding”, Management in Education, Vol. 25 No. 1, pp. 10-14.
27. Nir, A. (2002), “School-based management and its effect on teacher commitment”, International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice, Vol. 5 No. 4, pp. 323-341.
28. Nir, A. (2003a), “The impact of school-based management on supervision instructors’ professional considerations”, International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 17 No. 2, pp. 49-58.
29. Nir, A.E. (2003b), “Quasi-market: the changing context of schooling”, The International Journal of Educational Reform, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 26-39.
30. Nir, A. and Eyal, O. (2003), “School-based management and the role conflict of the school superintendent”, Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 41 No. 5, pp. 547-564.
31. Nir, A. and Miran, M. (2006), “The equity consequences of school-based management”, International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 116-126.
32. Nir, A. and Piri, P. (2007), Self-Management of Schools: From Concept to Action, Henrietta Szold Institute, Jerusalem.
33. Pang, I.W. (2008), “School-based management in Hong Kong: centralizing or decentralizing”, Educational Research for Policy and Practice, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 17-33.
34. Raz, T. and Ratner, D. (2013), “Transition of elementary schools to self-management: perceptions and attitudes concerning the program in its first year of implementation”, Qualitative Findings, Ministry of Education, The National Authority for Measurement and Evaluation, Jerusalem (Hebrew).
35. Resh, N. and Dar, Y. (2012), “The rise and fall of school integration in Israel: a policy analysis”, British Educational Research Journal, Vol. 38 No. 6, pp. 929-951.
36. Sammons, P. (2012), “Methodological issues and new trends in educational effectiveness”, in Christopher, C., Armstrong, P., Harris, A., Muijs, D., Reynold, D. and Sammons, P. (Eds), School Effectiveness and Improvement Research, Policy and Practice, Routledge, London, pp. 9-26.
37. Shahar, H. and Magen-Nagar, N. (2010), “Participation in decision-making and teachers’ sense of autonomy and satisfaction: differences between schools with school-based management and schools without school-based management”, Studies in Education Management and Organization, Vol. 31 No. 1, pp. 243-269 (Hebrew).
38. Sorenson, R.D. and Goldsmith, L.M. (2006), The Principal’s Guide to School Budgeting, Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, CA.
39. Volansky, A. (2003), “From experiment to educational policy: the transition to school-based management in Israeli schools”, in Volansky, A. and Friedman, I. (Eds), School-based Management: An International Perspective, Ministry of Education, Jerusalem, pp. 217-233.
40. Volansky, A. and Friedman, I. (2003), School-based Management: An International Perspective, Routledge, London.
41. Abu-Asbah, K. (2007), Arab Education in Israel: Dilemmas of a National Minority, Florscheim Institute, Jerusalem (Hebrew).