Strategic leadership and educational improvement / edited by Margaret Preedy, Ron Glatter and Christine Wise.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Preedy, Margaret.

Glatter, Ron.

Wise, Christine.

Series:

Leading and managing for effective education ; reader 2.

Leading and managing for effective education ; reader 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School management and organization--Great Britain.

School management and organization.

Great Britain.

Educational leadership--Great Britain.

Educational leadership.

Physical Description:

vii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Keynes, UK : Open University ; London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : In association with Paul Chapman Pub., 2003.

Summary:

This important new three-volume series covers the major current themes, issues and debates relevant to the challenges of educational leadership today.

The series is suitable for: -- providers and students in higher educational institutions-- postgraduate level courses in educational management and leadership development-- headteachers induction programmes, NPQH and LPSH.

This volume focuses on strategic leadership, the impact of external and internal factors on organizational leadership, and how effective educational leaders manage the competing demands of autonomy and accountability. The book deals with the challenges of managing the boundaries between educational organizations and their external contexts, and reconciling environmental expectations and internal priorities.

This book is suitable for providers and students on postgraduate level courses in educational management, and leadership development provision for Headteachers induction programmes, NPQH and LPSH.

Contents:

1 Strategic leadership challenges / Margaret Preedy, Ron Glatter, Christine Wise

Part 1 External influences 17

2 Future schools and leaders' values / Kenneth Leithwood, Doris Jantzi, Rosanne Steinbach 19

3 Conceptualizing educational reform / Benjamin Levin 33

4 Governance, autonomy and accountability in education / Ron Glatter 44

5 Uses and abuses of quality: the need for a civic version / Mike Bottery 60

Part 2 Societal and organisational cultures 75

6 Developing comparative and international educational leadership and management: a cross-cultural model / Clive Dimmock, Allan Walker 77

7 School culture and improvement / Louise Stoll 93

8 Helping practitioners explore their school's culture / David Hargreaves 109

Part 3 Strategic leadership and managing change 123

9 Strategy, external relations and marketing / Nick Foskett 125

10 Understanding strategy development / Gerry Johnson, Kevan Scholes 142

11 Strategic analysis: obtaining the data and building a strategic view / Brent Davies, Linda Ellison 157

12 Planning, doing and coping with change / Michael Fullan 185

13 Fair Furlong Primary School: five years on / Agnes McMahon 198

Part 4 Educational improvement 213

14 Reform, accountability and strategic choice in education / Tim Simkins 215

15 School effectiveness and improvement: the story so far / Peter Mortimore, John MacBeath 233

16 School effectiveness and school improvement: critique of a movement / Janet Ouston 252

17 Effectiveness and improvement: school and college research compared / Paul Martinez 265

18 Self-evaluation in European schools: case examples / John MacBeath, Michael Schratz, Denis Meuret, Lars Jakobsen 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

076194057X

0761940588

OCLC:

50614680