ABSTRACT
Self-managing schools are emerging in times of dramatic restructuring in education around the world. While changes to roles and responsibilities at the school level are challenge enough in themselves, there are concomitant changes at the central and other levels of the system which are even more far-reaching in terms of their impact on people. This chapter is concerned with the manner in which school systems may be transformed to achieve self-management, minimising the frequently cited perils of restructuring.
