Learning to read critically in educational leadership and management / edited by Mike Wallace and Louise Poulson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wallace, Mike, 1950-

Poulson, Louise

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School management and organization.

Educational leadership.

Physical Description:

viii, 247 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Educational leadership and management

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2003.

Summary:

This series supports research-based teaching on masters and taught doctorate courses in humanities and social sciences fields of enquiry. Each book is a 'three in one' text designed to assist advanced course tutors and dissertation supervisors with key research-based teaching tasks.

This unique book combines the teaching quality of a text with exemplary reports of small-scale and larger research studies, as well as a literature review by leading academics. The book provides a framework for the critical analysis of any text, and shows how to incorporate this in a literature review.

Contents:

Part 1 Becoming a critical consumer of the literature 1

1 Critical reading for self-critical writing / Mike Wallace, Louise Poulson 3

2 Designing and writing about research: developing a critical frame of mind / Louise Poulson, Mike Wallace 39

Part 2 Meeting the challenge of reporting research 63

3 Local school management: does it make a difference? / Bill Mulford, Lawrie Kendall, Diana Kendall 65

4 Investigating effective resource management in secondary schools: the evidence of inspection reports / Derek Glover, Rosalind Levacic 90

5 Understanding and contributing to school improvement in Thailand: a research and development project / Philip Hallinger, Pornkasem Kantamara 112

6 Heads of secondary school subject departments and the improvement of teaching and learning / Ray Bolam, Chris Turner 133

7 Evaluating technology and instructional innovation: when clear findings are not evident / Sharon Kruse, Karen Seashore Louis 149

8 International development education: managing change in Caribbean countries / Stephen Gough 170

9 Transformational leadership effects on student engagement with school / Kenneth Leithwood, Doris Jantzi 194

Part 3 Meeting the challenge of reporting a review of the literature 213

10 Understanding the contribution of leadership to school improvement / Philip Hallinger, Ronald Heck 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0761947965

OCLC:

53194553