Policy and Educational Administration: Asymmetries and Inequalities in Greek Primary Education
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This paper describes the asymmetries existing in Greek Primary Education mainly concerning the selection of Headmasters, but also other educational, organizational and administrative issues, as they were delineated by the respondents through primary qualitative research. In particular, 43 telephone interviews were conducted to 14 experienced, 8 new and 9 candidate headmasters and 12 teachers from the 13 educational regions. The results show that the interference of political factors in the headship selection and the ambiguity of the evaluative criteria are significant asymmetries attributed to the deeply centralized, formalized and traditionalist Greek educational system and the powerful pressure groups. Moreover, the existence of an obvious group prototype (primary teachers) in Greek Primary Education is a crucial parameter affecting its organizational culture due to the forming of informal hierarchical subgroups of teachers and thus engendering various barriers to managerial advancement of dominated specialty teachers. The respondents mentioned other asymmetries, too, while they proposed solutions, which, in their view, should be utilized by the Education Policy actors.
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Σπυριάδου Κ., & Κουτούζης Μ. (2021). Policy and Educational Administration: Asymmetries and Inequalities in Greek Primary Education. Dialogoi! Theory and Praxis in Education, 7, 185–210. https://doi.org/10.12681/dial.26917
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