James P. Spillane,
Tim Hallett, and John B. Diamond
Abstract
Recent educational policy initiatives attempt to
change school authority and influence arrangements. The two leading
theoretical perspectives for understanding how these processes
unfold are the rational-legal and the institutional models. This
paper critiques and expands these perspectives by illuminating
how the authority to influence classroom instruction is based
on a process through which followers imbue leaders with legitimacy
— symbolic power — based on their perceptions of the
leaders' possession of human, cultural, social, and economic capital.
James
P. Spillane, School of Education
and Social Policy, Northwestern University Tim Hallett, Department
of Sociology, Northwestern University John B. Diamond,
School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern
University
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