Educational Management: Strategy, Quality and Resources (Leadership and Management in Education) [Paperback]

Margaret Preedy (Editor), Ron Glatter (Editor), Rosalind Levacic (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1997 | Series: Leadership and Management in Education

This new collection of readings draws together three major and interrelated priorities for the educational manager: developing and maintaining quality, using resources effectively, and establishing a strategic overview and direction for the organization. In explaining these three concerns, the book aims to help educational managers to improve their own practice, by encouraging critical reflection on management processes and on how conceptual frameworks and research evidence can contribute to more effective professional performance in schools and colleges. The collection has a strongly practical flavour, focusing on frameworks, ideas and approaches that teachers can test out and develop in their own professional contexts. It includes material based on a wide range of educational settings, enabling managers to transcend sector boundaries in their thinking and to draw on insights from other sectors. This volume forms part of the Leadership and Management in Education series. This four book series provides a carefully chosen selection of high quality readings on key contemporary themes in educational management: professional development, reflection on practice, leadership, team working, effectiveness and improvement, quality, strategy and resources. The series will be an important resource for classroom teachers and lecturers as well as those holding designated management posts in schools and colleges and will provide a valuable basis for professional development programmes.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Readers interested in methodological and epistemological issues will find this of great interest...For educationalists who are critical of government intervention in education the book provides a powerful analysis of the political underpinning of recent so-called educational reform...A thought provoking book that I enjoyed reading." - Management in Education "The book goes a way towards developing a critical foundation from which to articulatealternative reform agendas...a fine book." - Qualitative Studies in Education

About the Author

Margaret Preedy is a lecturer in the Centre for Educational Policy and Management, School of Education, The Open University. Ron Glatter is Professor of Educational Management and Director of the Centre for Educational Management, School of Education, The Open University. Rosalind Levacic is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Educational Policy and Management, and author of Local Management of Schools: analysis and practice, published by Open University Press.

Product Details

• Paperback: 309 pages
• Publisher: Open Univ Pr (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0335197973
• ISBN-13: 978-0335197972
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,926,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)