Role Shock in Local Community Development Dynamics
Keywords:
community development, Indigenous education, school governance, community participationAbstract
Recent developments in Canadian Indian education provide some otherwise unavailable opportunities to observe potentials for implementing significant changes in schools elsewhere. One domain of potential change, often considered by educators and others to be a desirable condition, is "local control." For all the rhetoric about local control of schooling, it is actually observable only in a few cases and very little description is available about the processes or problems of implementation. This paper describes the beginning of one such undertaking and illustrates how the unanticipated emergence of pervasive role shock inhibits the expected positive results from autonomous local control of schooling.
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