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Strategic Leadership and Educational Improvement contains essays that will be invaluable to those seeking succinct guides to the subtle elements of school improvement' -
Tim Brighouse, Times Educational Supplement`This is a wonderful book. The editors have managed to balance powerful authors in an impressive survey in current thinking about education. It should certainly rate multiple copies in most libraries' - School Leadership & Management
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.
The editors believe that strategic understanding and involvement
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`Strategic Leadership and Educational Improvement contains essays that will be invaluable to those seeking succinct guides to the subtle elements of school improvement′ - Tim Brighouse, Times Educational Supplement
′Severely practical, in that they are directed towards practitioners who are serious about their careers and are seeking structured professional development, yet grounded in cutting-edge theory and research, these ′readers′ or collections of articles, represent excellent value-for-money and can be recommended to those who with to have an authoritative source from which to update their knowledge in a particular filed yet have not the time to cover the complete corpus of core literature.′ - Educational Research
The editors have managed to balance powerful authors in an impressive survey of current thinking about education. -- School Leadership & Management, February 2004
Table of ContentsStrategic Leadership Challenges - Margaret Preedy, Ron Glatter and Christine Wise PART ONE: EXTERNAL INFLUENCES Future Schools and Leaders′ Values - Kenneth Leithwood, Doris Jantzi and Rosanne Steinback Conceptualizing Educational Reform - Benjamin Levin Governance, Autonomy and Accountability in Education - Ron Glatter Uses and Abuses of Quality - Mike Bottery The Need for a Civic Version PART TWO: SOCIETAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES Developing Comparative and International Educational Leadership and Management - Clive Dimmock and Allan Walker A Cross-Cultural Model School Culture and Improvement - Louise Stoll Helping Practitioners Explore Their School′s Culture - David Hargreaves PART THREE: STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND MANAGING CHANGE Strategy, External Relations and Marketing - Nick Foskett Understanding Strategy Development - Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes Strategic Analysis - Brent Davies and Linda Ellison Obtaining the Data and Building a Strategic View Planning, Doing and Coping with Change - Michael Fullan Fair Furlong Primary School - Agnes McMahon Five Years On PART FOUR: EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT Reform, Accountability and Strategic Choice in Education - Tim Simkins Schools Effectiveness and Improvement - Peter Mortimore and John MacBeath The Story So Far School Effectiveness and School Improvement - Janet Ouston Critique of a Movement Effectiveness and Improvement - Paul Martinez School and College Research Compared Self-Evaluation in European Schools - John MacBeath with Michael Schratz, Denis Meuret and Lars Jakobsen Case Examples
