Strategic Leadership and Educational Improvement

Maggie Preedy, Ron Glatter, Christine Wise

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English

SAGE Publications Inc
15 November 2002

Organisation & management of education; Business studies: general

Series: Published in Association with The Open University

`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 should be a central concern for all organization members and that, in order to be effective, strategic planning needs the commitment and ownership of all staff, not just senior managers. The book covers:

- political, social and ideological contexts

- governance and links with external stakeholders

- marketing

- organizational collaboration, competition, partnership

-

external/internal culture,

and internal structures

- strategic leadership and managing change
* organizational effectiveness, accountability and evaluation

This book is suitable for providers and students in higher educational institutions postgraduate level courses in educational management and leadership development provision for Headteachers induction programmes, NPQH and LPSH. It is also suitable for use on short courses and for practitioners occupying or aspiring to leadership roles in schools, colleges and other educational organizations.

Edited by: Maggie Preedy, Ron Glatter, Christine Wise
Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9780761940586
ISBN 10: 0761940588
Series: Published in Association with The Open University
Pages: 310
Publication Date: 15 November 2002
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Strategic 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

Reviews for Strategic Leadership and Educational Improvement

'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 '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