Leading and Managing Education: International Dimensions / Edition 1

by Nicholas H Foskett, Jacky Lumby

Overview

This accessible book provides a critical review of educational leadership and management from an international perspective. The book covers a series of key themes in educational leadership, drawing on a wide range of examples, including: learners and learning; people and communities in education; managing strategy and resources; learning futures and the changing challenges for educational leaders.Contents:Educational Management and Leadership: The International Dimension \ Learning and Teaching \ Learner Outcomes \ Managing for Quality \ Managing People in Education \ People and Performance \ Managing External Relations \ Interfacing with the Community \ Strategy and Planning \ Managing Resources \ Institutional Management of Resources \ Widening Participation \ Achieving a Learning Organization \ Leadership

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761972037
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/14/2003
Series:	Centre for Educational Leadership and Management
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nick Foskett - University of Southampton.

Jacky Lumby (Ph.D. University of Leicester) is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. She has taught and led in a range of educational settings, including secondary/high schools, community and further/technical education. She has also worked for a Training and Enterprise Council, with a regional responsibility for developing leaders across the public and private sectors. She has researched and published widely on educational policy, leadership and management in schools and colleges, in the UK and internationally. Her work on leadership encompasses a range of perspectives, including diversity issues, comparative and international perspectives and leading upper secondary education. She has co-edited International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders (2008). Her most recent book is, with Marianne Coleman, Leadership and Diversity: Challenging Theory and Practice in Education (2007). She is co- editor of the journal International Studies in Educational Administration and a member of the Council of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
The International Patterns in Educational Management and Leadership
PART TWO: LEARNERS AND LEARNING
Learning and Teaching
Managing Learner Outcomes
A Passion for Quality
PART THREE: PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES
Managing People in Education
People and Performance
Managing External Relations
Managing Parental and Community Links
PART FOUR: STRATEGY AND RESOURCES
Strategy and Planning
Managing Resources for Education
Managing Resources at the Institutional Level
PART FIVE: LEARNING FUTURES
Widening Participation
Achieving a Learning Organization
PART SIX: LEADERSHIP
Leadership

Editorial Reviews

‘Foskett and Lumby's book forms an important and a timely contribution to comparative international studies of educational leadership…. In challenging a range of deeply embedded suppositions about leading and managing in education the authors remind us regularly that the mightiest task of even the most accomplished transformational leader, or radical government policy, is to transform values, attitudes and professional culture. So this exposition of similarities and contrasts in practices makes a useful contribution to the literature on educational leadership in this country and beyond' - David Wood, Journal of Inservice Education

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