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Strategic leadership and educational improvement / edited by Margaret Preedy, Ron Glatter, and Christine Wise.

Contributor(s): Preedy, Margaret | Glatter, Ron | Wise, Christine | Open University.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Leading and managing for effective education ; reader 2.Publisher: London : Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Open University in association with P. Chapman Pub. ; SAGE Publications, 2003Description: 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780761940586; 9780761940579.Subject(s): School management and organization -- Great Britain | Educational leadership -- Great Britain | Strategic planning -- Great Britain | Education | Educational administration & organization | Business studies: general | Business & ManagementDDC classification: 371.2 STR Summary: This work is for providers and students in higher education institutions for postgraduate level courses in educational management, and for leadership development provision for headteachers induction programmes.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

` 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.

Published in association with the Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work is for providers and students in higher education institutions for postgraduate level courses in educational management, and for leadership development provision for headteachers induction programmes.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Strategic Leadership Challenges
  • Part 1 External Influences
  • Future Schools and Leaders' Values
  • Conceptualizing Educational Reform
  • Governance, Autonomy and Accountability in Education
  • Uses and Abuses of Quality
  • The Need for a Civic Version
  • Part 2 Societal And Organizational Cultures
  • Developing Comparative and International Educational Leadership and Management
  • A Cross-Cultural Model
  • School Culture and Improvement
  • Helping Practitioners Explore Their School's Culture
  • Part 3 Strategic Leadership And Managing Change
  • Strategy, External Relations and Marketing
  • Understanding Strategy Development
  • Strategic Analysis
  • Obtaining the Data and Building a Strategic View
  • Planning, Doing and Coping with Change
  • Fair Furlong Primary School
  • Five Years On
  • Part 4 Educational Improvement
  • Reform, Accountability and Strategic Choice in Education
  • Schools Effectiveness and Improvement
  • The Story So Far
  • School Effectiveness and School Improvement
  • Critique of a Movement
  • Effectiveness and Improvement
  • School and College Research Compared
  • Self-Evaluation in European Schools
  • Case Examples