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Can School Boards Govern? A Conceptual Analysis Of The Meaning Of Governance In Relation To Ontario Public School Boards, Teresa M. Shields Jan 2010

Can School Boards Govern? A Conceptual Analysis Of The Meaning Of Governance In Relation To Ontario Public School Boards, Teresa M. Shields

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The purpose of this inquiry was to investigate the meaning of the concept governance in order to answer the central research question “can school boards govern?” While the importance of the governance of organizations is widely acknowledged in the literature, the governance of local school boards has seldom been a central focus of research. The duality of governing and being governed experienced by school boards is not characteristic of board governance in the private and nonprofit sectors and so made school boards an exceptional area of governance research.

The method of inquiry was to subject the central concept of governance …


Can School Boards Govern? A Conceptual Analysis Of The Meaning Of Governance In Relation To Ontario Public School Boards, Teresa M. Shields Jan 2010

Can School Boards Govern? A Conceptual Analysis Of The Meaning Of Governance In Relation To Ontario Public School Boards, Teresa M. Shields

Digitized Theses

The purpose of this inquiry was to investigate the meaning of the concept governance in order to answer the central research question “can school boards govern?” While the importance of the governance of organizations is widely acknowledged in the literature, the governance of local school boards has seldom been a central focus of research. The duality of governing and being governed experienced by school boards is not characteristic of board governance in the private and nonprofit sectors and so made school boards an exceptional area of governance research.

The method of inquiry was to subject the central concept of governance …