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The Principles and Practice of Educational Management Tony Bush

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The Principles and Practice of Educational Management by Tony Bush


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Summary

Providing an overview of all major topics within the field of educational management, with newly commissioned material from major authors, this book reviews relevant theory, explains relevant research and provides an unrivalled overview of educational management from an international perspective.

The Principles and Practice of Educational Management Summary

The Principles and Practice of Educational Management by Tony Bush

`The adoption of Principles and Practice of Educational Management as a course reader for the educational MBA should ensure it is successful. Though, as a thoroughly admirable book in it own right it deserves a much wider readership. Masters students as well as educational leaders, governors, senior managers and administrators in a wide variety of establishments stand to gain a great deal from it' - Tony Rea, Escalate

Providing an overview of all major topics within the field of educational management, with newly commissioned material from major authors, this book reviews relevant theory, explains relevant research and provides an unrivalled overview of educational management from an international perspective.

It includes the following sections:

- The Context of Educational Management

- Leadership and Strategic Management

- Human Resource Management

- Managing Learning and Teaching

- Managing Finance and Resources

- Managing External Relations

- Managing Quality in Education.

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`Masters students as well as educational leaders, governors, senior managers and administrators in a wide variety of establishments stand to gain a great deal from it' - Tony Rea, Escalate

About Tony Bush

Tony Bush is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Nottingham, and previously held professorial positions at the universities of Leicester, Reading, Lincoln, and Warwick. He is a vice-president and Council member of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) and was awarded the Society's Distinguished Service Award in 2008. He has been the editor of the Society's international academic journal, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership (EMAL) since 2002. He is also a Fellow of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM). Tony has published more than 90 refereed journal articles, and 30 books, including his best-selling `Theories of Educational Leadership and Management', which is now in its fourth edition and has been translated into several languages. His extensive international work includes consultancy, research external examining, and invited keynote presentations, in 22 countries on all six continents. Les Bell is Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership at the Universities of Leicester and Lincoln. He trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths College, London and taught in both primary and secondary schools. He joined the Education Department at Coventry College of Education and subsequently became a member of the Education Department at the University of Warwick. He has held posts at the Universities of Warwick, Liverpool John Moores, Lincoln and Leicester. He has written and researched extensively on educational management and leadership, particularly on ambiguity theory, strategy and change management, leading schools in challenging circumstances, new developments in educational leadership and the formulation and implementation impact of government policy and its impact on schools. He is co-editor, with Howard Stevenson, of Organizing Public Education - a four volume collection in the Major Works series. London, Sage His latest publications Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstance: Strategies for Success. London. Bloomsbury Press (2016), (with Phil Smith) and Agency, Structure and the NEET Policy Problem: The Experiences of Young People. London. Bloomsbury (2017) (with Ian Thurlby-Campbell)

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE CONTEXT OF EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT The Policy Context - Les Bell and Tony Bush Educational Management - Tony Bush Theory and Practice Autonomy and Self-Management - Brian J Caldwell Concepts and Evidence PART TWO: LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT Leadership and Strategy - Yin Cheong Cheng School Leadership in Context - Societal and Organisational Cultures - Clive Dimmock and Allan Walker Vision and Strategic Planning - Jacky Lumby PART THREE: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Professional Development and Professionalism - Ray Bolam Appraisal and Performance Management - David Middlewood Managing for Equal Opportunities - Marianne Coleman PART FOUR: MANAGING LEARNING AND TEACHING Managing the Curriculum for Student Learning - Margaret Preedy Monitoring and Evaluating Learning - Ann R J Briggs PART FIVE: MANAGING FINANCE AND RESOURCES Efficiency, Equity and Autonomy - Rosalind Leva[ac]ci[ac]c Resource Acquisition and Allocation - Lesley Anderson PART SIX: MANAGING EXTERNAL RELATIONS Governance, Autonomy and Accountability in Education - Ron Glatter Marketing - Nick Foskett New Partnerships for Improvement - Les Bell PART SEVEN: MANAGING QUALITY IN EDUCATION Managing Change to Improve Learning - Hugh Busher External Evaluation and Inspection - Brian Fidler Understanding Quality - John West-Burnham

Additional information

GOR003449045
9780761947929
0761947922
The Principles and Practice of Educational Management by Tony Bush
Used - Very Good
Hardback
SAGE Publications Inc
2002-06-07
332
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