Meadmore is critical of this top-down approach to devolution.
Meadmore looks at the developments of the last 15 years across the Australian states. Devolution is seen as inevitability, politicians from all parties have accepted it as the path for our education system to follow. The 1993 Schools of the Future report produces a different model of devolution. It is driven by an economic rationalist agenda where only economic matters matter and Meadmore critical of this. The report also alludes to the consuming responsibilities principals are faced with as a part of the devolution of power.
Meadmore is judgmental of the fact Queensland has yet to allow principals the power to hire and fire staff, which is ironic when devolution is the process of shifting power supposedly to these people.
Meadmore shows concern about the current developments of devolution of the education system. He is sceptical of its ability to provide increased learning outcomes, when the primary goal of decentralising power is related to economics and cost cutting. Time spent by principals and administrators is being consumed with managerial issues associated with making education a competitive business. While power is given to them for these issues, what has been found ineffective is the inability of principals to have the power to make curriculum decisions. Certain features of the curriculum have been re-centralised providing "curriculum options" that fall "within systematic guidelines" that essentially constrain any curriculum flexibility. What is being neglected is the students needs, teacher support and development, parent and community support to name a few. Meadmore is critical of Queenslands attempt to link School Based Management with increased learning outcomes. This is a contentious issue where research indicates that learning outcomes are sublimated at the school level by the need to deal with managerial issues associated with self-management.
It was like all referendums to be held later on devolution of Scotland from the UK. ... This referendum was for devolution of power to Scotland. ... The referendum primary goal was to give devolution to Scotland with TAX VARING POWERS 3p on the pound. ... Two question were asked did Scotland want devolution. ... The 1997 welsh referendum for devolution. ...
"English votes for English laws" (The Independent, 2014) Furthermore the same should be established for Wales and Scotland which was the inspiration for the Scottish devolution process. ... In 1979 a referendum on devolution was held and the majority of the Scottish people, 52% voted for a Scottish parliament. ... The Scotland Act was revoked and the legislation to enable Scotland's devolution was overturned. ... In 1989 the Scottish Constitutional Convention again set up a blue print for devolution, but it was not supported by the Conservatives. ... (Scottish.parliament.uk,...
This essay will review chapters two and eight from the text Practicing Education by Meadmore et al, and discuss the concepts of discipline and devolution and the conceptual links between them. This text will then seek to address: how devolution operates as a form of discipline, how devolution works for and against equity, an example of how devolution governs schooling and finally, proposing one strategy for making an aspect of devolution more equitable within primary education. ... The process of devolution has been a gradual one, and therefore due to differing socio-cultural and politica...
Devolution has also changed the location of parliamentary sovereignty. Devolution is the transfer of power from a central government to outer, regional institutions, effectively passing power down from higher authority to lower ones. ... This shows that devolution has led to outer governments gaining more power, but Westminster still has a lot more sovereignty. ... Furthermore, many people argue that this devolution is leading to a form of Quasi-Federalism. ...
War of Devolution, the Nine Years War, and the War of the Spanish succession are all examples of force fuelled by his foreign policy of either supremacy in Europe or security. ... Therefore, the War of Devolution was the means to make this grand entry to the international system. ... Through the War of Devolution and the Dutch War, France was victorious although they had paid high costs for the wars as he did with all the other wars conducted later. ... Invading Spanish Netherlands during War of Devolution and the Dutch War was not a random attack solely for the glory of Louis XIV. ... After t...
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