ABSTRACT
School development planning (SDP) is planning that is typified by the identification of long-term goals and shorter-term objectives and strategies to achieve them within set budgetary constraints. SDP is a product of the implementation of corporate managerialist approaches to educational management and has become a common practice in almost every primary school in Australia (Logan et al., 1994:6). To be more precise, in Australian educational systems, a hybrid form (Macpherson, 1991) of corporate managerialism has been most commonly implemented. Under devolved structures, this form leaves schools responsible for interpreting and enacting policy within the framework of centralised guidelines (Seddon, 1994:3).
