1st Edition
School Management in Transition Schooling on the Edge
By Dale Shuttleworth
Copyright 2003
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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School Management in Transition examines the impact of the neo-conservative political agendas which still hold sway in education. It describes the transition that has occurred in the school leader's role from teacher-administrator to quality control supervisor and how some schools have developed strategies to deal with the resulting issues. Based on a study carried out by the Organisation for... Read more
1. Crisis in the Classroom 2. Leadership in Transition 3. Loosening the Ties 4. Test Score Olympics 5. Top down Reform 6. Outsourcing the Service 7. Bottom up Renewal 8. Community Education Partnerships 9. Micro politics of Governance 10. Zero Tolerance 11. Digital Divide 12 Learning to Manage Knowledge 13. Tracking Innovation 14. Management for a Learning Society 15. Leaders for the Twenty first Century
Biography
Dale Shuttleworth is currently Executive director of the Training Renewal Foundation in Toronto and has over 40 years' experience as a community educator previously holding posts as a teacher, principal and university lecturer.
'it makes important reading for those responsible for training the new generation of school leaders and for those leaders themselves' - Times Educational Supplement
