基本説明
Draws on an OECD survey that sets out to identify innovation and good practice in school management in nine countries: Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the USA.
Full Description
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 Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the book analyzes issues such as decentralization, testing, external assessment and privatization in the education systems of nine of the world's most industrialised countries: the USA, UK, Japan, Mexico, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Greece and Hungary. It contrasts different school management models in these countries and goes on to identify innovation and best practice designed to tackle such concerns as declining professional morale, premature retirements and teacher shortages.
This book provides a unique insight into what is really happening in school leadership and management, and will be of great interest to school leaders, academics, researchers and policy makers.
Contents
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