TY - JOUR
T1 - Governing Education in England and France
AU - COLE, Alistair Mark
AU - John, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
1. This article is drawn from a project financed by the ESRC (grant No L311253047) into changing patterns of governance and public management in England and France. We thank the ESRC for its support. Alistair Cole is also grateful to the Leverhulme foundation and to the Nuffield foundation for subsequent grants to complete closely related projects.
PY - 2001/10
Y1 - 2001/10
N2 - This article investigates changes in educational governance in England and France. Paradigms of new governance are required to make sense of organisational complexity in both countries. English-style educational governance encompasses new forms of central steering, private techniques of public management, a culture of consumer-led evaluation, and new (bounded) forms of school autonomy. French-style educational governance is exemplified by organisational change, enhanced political and administrative decentralisation, the growth of educational partnerships and the circulation of new policy ideas. National administrative, institutional and political traditions provide conceptual lenses to understand change, but the two countries share common ground on many substantive issues of policy.
AB - This article investigates changes in educational governance in England and France. Paradigms of new governance are required to make sense of organisational complexity in both countries. English-style educational governance encompasses new forms of central steering, private techniques of public management, a culture of consumer-led evaluation, and new (bounded) forms of school autonomy. French-style educational governance is exemplified by organisational change, enhanced political and administrative decentralisation, the growth of educational partnerships and the circulation of new policy ideas. National administrative, institutional and political traditions provide conceptual lenses to understand change, but the two countries share common ground on many substantive issues of policy.
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U2 - 10.1177/095207670101600409
DO - 10.1177/095207670101600409
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84992803962
SN - 0952-0767
VL - 16
SP - 106
EP - 125
JO - Public Policy and Administration
JF - Public Policy and Administration
IS - 4
ER -
