School Leadership, Management & Administration

Presents an overview of the pitfalls and problems of implementing quality standards in education. The text looks at the practical advantages and disadvantages of quality systems, case studies of attempts at implementation and proposals for developments across the education sector as a whole...

School leaders now have to be financial and resource managers in addition to their traditional knowledge base. This book asks important questions about the provision of leadership courses, including whether models of leadership studies derived from the business and industry are relevant to schools?..

School leaders now have to be financial and resource managers in addition to their traditional knowledge base. This book asks important questions about the provision of leadership courses, including whether models of leadership studies derived from the business and industry are relevant to schools?..

Susan M. Tranter has produced a practical account of what the role of a Deputy Head entails and suggests how it might be fulfilled successfully...

Although not new, the concept of distributed (shared) leadership has re-emerged in recent years as one highly promising response to the complex challenges currently faced by schools. Responding productively to these challenges far exceeds the capacities of any individual leader. If schools are to fl..

This book is about developing young leaders in schools. It argues that we need to generate broad-based distributed leadership within, between and across schools to be certain of lasting change and improvement...

This thoroughly revised edition of Educating the "Right" Way brings readers up to date on what are now clearly lasting transformations in the movements, ideologies, assumptions, structures, and practices of education...

Education Law, 5th Edition provides a comprehensive survey of the legal problems and issues that confront school administrators and policymakers...

This volume provides diverse perspectives and paradigms in educational administration and leadership. Focusing on particular philosophical and theoretical schools of thought, it traces the contemporary history of debates in the field while also exploring emerging, non-traditional schools for insight..

This volume provides diverse perspectives and paradigms in educational administration and leadership. Focusing on particular philosophical and theoretical schools of thought, it traces the contemporary history of debates in the field while also exploring emerging, non-traditional schools for insight..

Originally published in 1984. This book explains, analyses and criticises the complexities of the financial decision-making systems in education. It discusses the role of the different bodies and people involved and explores the thinking and conventions which shape their findings...

The relationship between education and democratic development has been a growing theme in debates about public education, but there has been little work that has directly related educational leadership to wider issues of freedom, politics and practice. This significant volume will examine the main t..