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- Title
"Ideology and Public School Policy‐Making".
- Authors
Mitchell, Douglas E.
- Abstract
Using an original Q‐sort instrument, 63 key policy influential in three Southern California school districts were surveyed. The study located significant patterns within the thought systems of these leaders. It was found that since liberals focus on Utopian vision for the ideal school while conservatives are more issue‐oriented, quieter policy struggles will probably tend to be won by liberals while noisy public issues tend to go to the conservatives (all other things being equal, which they never are). School policymakers may need to develop more pluralistic school policies, developing alternative schooling patterns which respond to diverse demands. Perhaps if school leaders could learn to decipher the particular policy orientations implicit in the movements of insurgent leaders, they could adjust school policy according to the shifting orientation of the district without having to await the disruptive and rancorous procedures of contested elections and involuntary superintendent turnovers.
- Publication
Urban Education, 1974, Vol 9, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
0042-0859
- Publication type
Article