Evaluating co-operative schools: values, democracy and leadership

The learning way : evaluating co-operative systems

Cooperative systems are combinations of technology, people and organisations that facilitate the communication and coordination necessary for a group to work together effectively. The technology involved is often, but not necessarily, groupware / computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). The evaluation of such systems is highly difficult, especially because of the widely differing views and d...

Conservation, human values and democracy

H uman activity is changing the climate, depleting biodiversity, destroying habitats and poisoning the earth, the water and the air. It is increasingly understood and accepted that natural resources are limited and that their use should be sustainable. Campaigns to raise awareness and improve education have highlighted to the general public that human civilisation is on an unsustainable path th...

Values, Participatory Democracy, and Health Care Reform

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this essay is to look at health reform using a framework of values. Values are the elements or characteristics that we find desirable or good about a system; they are the ideals that we strive to make a reality. Values lie at the core of any system. Values shape the organization and financing of health services. As we work to reform our health care system, a fundamen...

Spiritually-Based Leadership in Tehran’s Elementary Schools

To explore the extent to which spiritually-based leadership is implemented in Iranian school management system, a cluster sample of 375 elementary school teachers, along with a group of 10 experts, was selected and given a specially constructed questionnaire with an acceptable validity, as judged by  experts, and an internal consistency of 0.85. Data analyses yielded the following: school princ...

Rethinking middle leadership roles in secondary schools