School Leadership, Management & Administration

Looking at the situation in post-new war societies, this book assembles an impressive array of international expertise that highlights the importance of context for the ways in which school leadership is understood and practised...

Illustrated with numerous case studies–many drawn from the author’s work as a forensic psychologist–this book identifies 19 myths and misconceptions about youth violence, from ordinary bullying to rampage shootings...

Local Management of Schools (LMS) has increasingly become a topic of concern for schools, and head teachers and managers in particular. Containing international data from over 800 schools, the authors examine the overall impact of LMS...

_x005F_x000D_ This book presents a theory of covert administration that can be used to: provide an analysis and interpretation of secretive and deceptive activity; inform decision-making both theoretically and practically; provide a means of diagnosing errant management using secretive and deceptive..

_x005F_x000D_ This book presents a theory of covert administration that can be used to: provide an analysis and interpretation of secretive and deceptive activity; inform decision-making both theoretically and practically; provide a means of diagnosing errant management using secretive and deceptive..

Originally published in 1986. This book examines major topics of concern in the management of secondary schools. It presents much new thinking on these major problems and reports on particular initiatives. School management is treated from the perspective of the industrial trainer, the LEA, higher e..

Standards for Reporting Data to Educators provides a synthesis of research and best practices of how data should be presented to educators in order to optimize the effectiveness of data use...

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Examining a decade of research and practice, this book makes the case for a radical reappraisal of leadership, learning and their inter-relationship in educational policy...

Examining a decade of research and practice, this book makes the case for a radical reappraisal of leadership, learning and their inter-relationship in educational policy...

An examination of the nature of effective mentoring and its contribution to student teacher development. The book has a broad perspective and looks at policy developments and the differing approaches to teacher education, and explores central issues which have emerged in recent research...

Success Against the Odds - Five Years On revisits eleven schools, in a variety of disadvantaged areas, that were studied five years ago to see if they are still managing to do well in the current climate...