Policy-making Implications of Good Governance in Education Documents (Case: Fundamental transformation document)

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1 Associate Profesor, Department of Management and Educational Planning, University of Tehran,Tehran, Iran

2 PhD candidate of Educational Management, University of Tehran,Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The strategic implications of any system are reflected in the mirror of its upstream documents. These upstream documents signify the principles, values, goals, and ideals of each system. Given that good governance is a prominent approach in managing educational organizations, the present study aims to identify the strategic implications of good governance in the upstream documents of education. In this research, the fundamental transformation document of education has been studied as a case. The research method is applied, which was done qualitative, specifically a systematic approach to implication-research. In the section on indicators of good governance, 23 indicators were derived from the integration of indicators from seven different sources. Subsequently, the implications present in the fundamental transformation document of education were examined for the derived indicators. The extracted set of implications revealed that the document emphasizes significant implications of good governance, indicating its importance to the document’s authors. However, some indicators, such as ethics, received greater emphasis, while others, like consensus-oriented governance, received less attention. Most of the extracted implications are formulated as general and non-transparent statements. Considering the implications related to decentralization and quality regulation, it can be argued that the educational system remains a key player, and the necessary independence has not been granted to the other two key actors of good governance (civil society and the private sector) in the serious agenda of document authors

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