1. Section 1: Main trends and issues in decentralization, school-based management
2. Decentralization and school-based governance: a comparative study of self-governing school models
3. Globalized educational governance, decentralization and grassroots responses
4. Centralization and decentralization
5. Unresolved issues in globalization, decentralization and privatization
6. Decentralization and maket mechanisms in education-examples from six European centuries
7. Managing school change: continuous improvement based on a shared vision and a strategic plan
8. Section 2: Case studies
9. Decentralization of education: promising initiative or problematic notion?
10. Decentralization Indonesian education: the promise and the price
11. Decentralization in Senegal- ambiguous agendas for community education
12. Decentralization and education in Africa: the case of Uganda
13. State and parental roles in the decentralized education systems in Nicaragua
14. Teacher’s empowerment and commitment at school-based and non-school-based sites