School Management and Effectiveness in Developing Countries - The Post-Bureaucratic School (Paperback, New ed)

This series looks at how teachers can develop their schools through the curriculum, classroom techniques and performance indicators. It presents practitioners' accounts of school improvement, combined with an overview of school development policy. These books will be invaluable for teachers, students teachers, administrators and advisers throughout education. This book is quite different from existing 'Western' books on school effectiveness. It describes and analyses the way in which schools operate in developing countries and also tries to explain why they are as they are. Examining them at three levels - the macro, the meso and the micro - the authors use a theoretical framework that they have termed 'post-bureaucracy.' The book has four interlinked sections. First the authors examine the existing economic and theoretical contexts around school effectiveness, including an analysis of the causes of economic crisis and its impact on school management. In the second section the analysis of schools as bureaucratic facades is proposed.; The reality of school life, from which any theory of school effectiveness must derive, is illustrated by an ethnographic account of the job of the head

General

Imprint:	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	February 2006
Authors:	Clive Harber • Lynn Davies
Dimensions:	244 x 169 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8264-7910-5
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > General
LSN:	0-8264-7910-3
Barcode:	9780826479105

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