PUPILS, POWER AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOLS
LAWRENCE ANGUS
(Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria. 3168)
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Abstract
The collective interaction of disaffected pupils is often described as a counter‐school subculture or as an informal organization within the school. This paper reports the findings of an Australian ethnography which indicate that such pupils are able not only to assert their own autonomy and to circumvent the institutional axis in which they operate, but are also able to influence what is perceived to be the formal structure of the school.
Citation
ANGUS, L. (1986), "PUPILS, POWER AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOLS", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 24 No. 1, pp. 5-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009906
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1986, MCB UP Limited