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RECIPROCAL PERCEPTIONS BETWEEN ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL IN SELECTED PUBLIC AND INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (FLORIDA)

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1987
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This dissertation focuses attention on the ways in which public and nonpublic school administrators view socio-educational principles, their own and one another's schools, and the ways in which schools could share rather than compete. After an introduction which finds American and Floridian cultural pluralism and educational dualism to have been transplanted by early colonists, the dissertation describes the method by which the data were gathered: a thirty-four item, open-ended questionnaire which was completed by twelve public school and twenty private school administrators and officials largely in two Florida counties--Palm Beach and Broward. The data suggests that while there is general agreement for parental choice in education within both groups and general agreement about the "propriety" of four types of schools (public, independent, church-related, and proprietary), there are misunderstandings, hostilities, tensions, and territorial imperatives at work in day-to-day relationships. The problems of money, certification of teachers and administrators, and defensiveness run through the respondents' views. Areas of school functioning on which the two sectors generally agree include the right of citizens to open new schools, the threat of revenue loss, rejection of the proposed voucher system, public progression based on merit, local accreditation of private schools, and the need to check contract-status prior to engaging a teacher. Other matters are major or minor bones of contention between private and public school leaders: elitism, the problem of brain drain, white flight schools, the place of religion and state-devised curricula, teacher certifications and the right of teachers to move freely from one sector to another, and the transfer of students' records. Because evidence suggests that there is increasing cooperation between public and private school leaders at the national and state levels and no clear progress at the county level, the dissertation concludes with a recommendation that the dominant university in the area extend its interest in the relationship between the sectors and plan bridges to increasing cooperation in the interest of a quest for excellence shared by public and nonpublic schools and their leaders.
Title: RECIPROCAL PERCEPTIONS BETWEEN ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL IN SELECTED PUBLIC AND INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (FLORIDA).
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Name(s): GARTEN, RICHARD M.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
MacKenzie, Donald G., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1987
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 177 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This dissertation focuses attention on the ways in which public and nonpublic school administrators view socio-educational principles, their own and one another's schools, and the ways in which schools could share rather than compete. After an introduction which finds American and Floridian cultural pluralism and educational dualism to have been transplanted by early colonists, the dissertation describes the method by which the data were gathered: a thirty-four item, open-ended questionnaire which was completed by twelve public school and twenty private school administrators and officials largely in two Florida counties--Palm Beach and Broward. The data suggests that while there is general agreement for parental choice in education within both groups and general agreement about the "propriety" of four types of schools (public, independent, church-related, and proprietary), there are misunderstandings, hostilities, tensions, and territorial imperatives at work in day-to-day relationships. The problems of money, certification of teachers and administrators, and defensiveness run through the respondents' views. Areas of school functioning on which the two sectors generally agree include the right of citizens to open new schools, the threat of revenue loss, rejection of the proposed voucher system, public progression based on merit, local accreditation of private schools, and the need to check contract-status prior to engaging a teacher. Other matters are major or minor bones of contention between private and public school leaders: elitism, the problem of brain drain, white flight schools, the place of religion and state-devised curricula, teacher certifications and the right of teachers to move freely from one sector to another, and the transfer of students' records. Because evidence suggests that there is increasing cooperation between public and private school leaders at the national and state levels and no clear progress at the county level, the dissertation concludes with a recommendation that the dominant university in the area extend its interest in the relationship between the sectors and plan bridges to increasing cooperation in the interest of a quest for excellence shared by public and nonpublic schools and their leaders.
Identifier: 11892 (digitool), FADT11892 (IID), fau:8813 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1987.
College of Education
Subject(s): School management and organization--United States
School management and organization--Florida
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