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Internal regulation of schools : School headmasters and the regulation of teachers'acitivities

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The decentralization process of educational system and autonomy given to secondary schools leads to redefinition of the role of school headmasters particularly in the field of pedagogy. Moreover, the traditional mechanism of regulation of teachers' activities (inspection) has been declined. In this case the headmasters of the schools should act as the regulator of teachers' activities. On the one side in literature it has been set that the conflict between bureaucratic and professional characteristics leads to weakening the regulation and problems existing between the headmasters and his teachers. Are the consequences of all the above mentioned issues lead to loose the regulation of teachers' activities or lead to substituting a new kind of regulation in which the headmaster plays a crucial role? To answer the question a questionnaire was sent to 806 headmasters at two academies of Bordeaux and Dijon. The result of the factor analysis was 4 types of regulation. The results indicate that 1/3 of schools questioned are highly related to the collective activities of teachers and managerial activities of the headmasters opposite to what is generally described in the literature of Anglo-Saxon . Moreover, in contrast to some viewpoints, private schools are considered modern while state schools as traditional. The 2/3 schools in type 2 are located at Laissez faire .