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This book offers a unique record of the realities of parental
choice and competitive pressures on schools. On the basis of
research involving thousands of parents and eleven secondary
schools monitored over several years, it sets out: * empirical
findings on parents' preferences and experience of choice, how
schools respond to competitive pressures, and local dynamics of
quasi-markets * theoretical implications for understanding
quasi-markets in education and the public interest * implications
for educational policy, if schools are to be more responsive and
inequalities lessened The book provides insights into whether
pressures for choice and diversity are in the greater public
interest, or if they benefit only the few, and suggests a notion of
the public-market as a model for analysing public services.
This volume provides a unique insight into current understanding of a range of issues central to any analysis and evaluation of market-like systems in schooling, including: * Diversity and hierarchy amongst schools * Parental criteria for choosing schools * The differential impact on advantaged and disadvantaged families * National and international variations in educational policies * Rules and practices concerning school admissions Implications for future research and for educational policy are highlighted and the final chapter provides an overview of key themes and issues. This book will interest all those involved in educational policy, researchers, students, headteachers and other senior managers in schools.
This book offers a unique record of the realities of parental
choice and competitive pressures on schools. On the basis of
research involving thousands of parents and eleven secondary
schools monitored over several years, it sets out: * empirical
findings on parents' preferences and experience of choice, how
schools respond to competitive pressures, and local dynamics of
quasi-markets * theoretical implications for understanding
quasi-markets in education and the public interest * implications
for educational policy, if schools are to be more responsive and
inequalities lessened The book provides insights into whether
pressures for choice and diversity are in the greater public
interest, or if they benefit only the few, and suggests a notion of
the public-market as a model for analysing public services.
`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.
`Researchers interested in various aspects of college leadership
and management will find this book a convenient and scholarly
introduction to related research in the school sector' - Further
Education Development Agency, College Research Journal `Educational
management has become an important academic subject. The
contributors to this volume have gauaranteed its survival as such
by undertaking this review in order that they and others working in
the field may take account of a range of agendas and initiatives.
The outcome must be a fresh stance and a new sense of direction to
enable a study of educational managment to meet the needs of
teachers and their schools in the new millennium' - Educational
Research Educational Management brings together important original
contributions from leading thinkers in the field. Edited by some of
the key figures in educational management today, chapters examine
the following key areas: Has self-management achieved the success
predicted for it?; What should be the nature of professional
development for educational leaders?; to what extent can education
benefit by drawing from practice in business and industry?; can
theory inform management practice in education?; how can research
contribute to educational improvement?; how can leaders help
improve classroom practice? Educational Management is one of the
major outcomes of the ESRC ( Economic and Social Research Council)
seminar series which aimed to redefine educational management in
the light of the many developments in policy, practice, theory and
research since the subject became established in the 1970s.
`This reader is certainly worth a place in any consultant's
start-up kit, and offers useful refreshment for all but the most
expert' - Education Systems The articles in this book outline the
main principles of reflective practice and consultancy, and relate
them to a view of management as concerned with a constant process
of reviewing and improving practice. The book explores a number of
research strategies including case studies, surveys and action
research, and provides a wide range of techniques for planning,
data collection, data analysis and presentation, bearing in mind
the different audiences and purposes an investigation might serve.
This book is the companion volume to Educational Management in
Action: a collection of case studies (edited by Megan Crawford,
Lesley Kydd and Susan Parker). It is one of the two course readers
for The Open University Course E828 Educational Management in
Action.
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