ABSTRACT
Policymakers and researchers have now convinced themselves that the school is the unit of change. We see an accumulation of works and developments based on that assumption ranging from school-based management to the development planning for school change. School-based management refers to a form of educational administration where the school becomes the unit for decision-making as opposed to a central district administration (Caldwell and Wood, 1988). Developmental planning seeks to empower the school to deal more effectively with the task of improving teaching and learning (Hargreaves and Hopkins, 1991).
