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Consorting and Collaborating In the Education Market Place
This book examines how schools and educational institutions have established new collaborative relationships in the competitive educational marketplace. Through case studies, it describes examples of collaborative structures, such as educational consortia, which serve as vehicles for professional and curriculum development, sources of mutual support, and conditions for mutual survival. As local education authority monopolies have been forced to shed many of their traditional functions or schools have opted out, institutions have found it necessary to recreate parts of their collaborative structures out of self-interest. For some educators who value notions of "an educational service" and professional collegiality, inter-institutional collaboration is seen as something to be valued independently of the instrumental benefits it provides
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