What question did this study set out to answer?

The aim is to explore the complexities and implications of school restructuring in education.

January 1, 1994

Restructuring restructuring: postmodernity and the prospects for educational change

Puntos clave

The aim is to explore the complexities and implications of school restructuring in education.
Identified four dilemmas related to school restructuring.
Analyzed how these dilemmas affect educational policy.
Discussed various definitions and meanings of restructuring.
Restructuring can mean either top-down reform or cultural change within schools.
Dilemmas include balancing vision versus voice and trust in persons versus trust in processes.
Structural changes may conflict with the need for cultural shifts in educational environments.

Resumen

This paper examines the concept, implications and dilemmas of school restructuring. The meanings of restructuring are confusing and complex. Restructuring can be a synonym for top‐down reform or ruthless retrenchment. Or it can point to the redefinition of power relationships in the classrooms, staffrooms and communities of schooling. The paper identifies four different dilemmas of restructuring within which these different possibilities are contained and analyses their implications for educational policy. The dilemmas are those of vision versus voice; trust in persons versus trust in processes; mandates of imposition versus menus of choice; and structural change versus cultural change.

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