Targets, Threats and (dis)Trust: The Managerial Troika for Public School Principals in Chile

Autor/inn/en	Montecinos, Carmen; Ahumada, Luis; Galdames, Sergio; Campos, Fabián; Leiva, Maria Verónica
Titel	Targets, Threats and (dis)Trust: The Managerial Troika for Public School Principals in Chile
Quelle	In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23 (2015) 87, (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068 2341
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Public Schools; Principals; Educational Policy; Declining Enrollment; Neoliberalism; Performance Contracts; Interviews; Enrollment Management; Marketing; Commercialization; Governance; Entrepreneurship; Barriers; Longitudinal Studies; Case Studies; Elementary Schools; High Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; Professional Autonomy; Chile + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Principal; Schulleiter; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Leistungsvereinbarung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Unternehmungsgeist; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; High school; Oberschule; Berufsfreiheit
Abstract	Public education in Chile has been steadily losing students as a result of the implementation, for the last 35 years, of a market model. In this paper we exemplify how a structural problem (public schools' declining enrollment) created by neoliberal educational policies is transformed into an individual problem to be managed by the public school principal. Principals must sign a performance-based contract that specifies sanctions and incentives for meeting enrollment targets. The current paper examines, through data produced by in-depth interviews and shadowing, how 19 principals worked toward that target. Findings show that to manage enrollment principals spent, on average, 24% of their time performing marketing tasks. Principals, thus, have developed an entrepreneurial self, which is promoted by quasi-market school governance models. Through this entrepreneurship they manage various threats that represent barriers to the possibilities for meeting enrollment targets. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01