Tony Bush & Marianne Coleman 
Leadership and Strategic Management in Education [EPUB ebook] 

`This is one of very few texts to give recognition to the difficulties in large institutions and to give practical advice about the degree to which collegiality can be built into strategic planning. The authors provide an overview of all aspects of leadership within education, giving ample references within each section for more detailed study′ –
Mentoring and Tutoring

`The book would constitute a good starting-point for anyone wishing to understand contemporary developments in educational management′ – Educational Research

Leadership and strategic management are both issues of central importance in raising achievement in schools and colleges and thus are at the heart of the educational debate today.

This book is concerned with such major issues as: the nature of strategic management in education; the importance of vision, and mission; styles of leadership; models of educational management; and the purposes of strategic management, which here are equated with the effectiveness and improvement of the institution.

It will be invaluable for students of educational management, such as those following masters degrees. It is also directly relevant to teachers and lecturers and schools of all phases and in further education colleges, particularly those who have, or aspire to, management responsibilities.

The textbook is designed to be used either to accompany a taught course, or for self-study via distance-learning, thus practical and reflective activities are included.

Spis treści

PART ONE: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN EDUCATION

Leadership and Management

What Is Educational Management?

The Purpose of Educational Management

The Context of Educational Management

Strategy and Self-Management

PART TWO: VISION, MISSION AND STRATEGY

Vision

Mission

Strategy

PART THREE: LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT

Leadership and Management

Theory and Practice

Transformational and Transactional Leadership

Educational Leadership

The Moral and Ethical Dimensions of Leadership

Leadership of the Autonomous School or College

Strategic Leadership

Gender in Educational Leadership

Leadership and Roles

PART FOUR: ORGANISATIONAL THEORY AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

The Theory/Practice Divide

The Relevance of Theory to Good Practice

The Nature of Theory in Educational Management

Models of Educational Management

Organizational Culture

Organizational Culture and Strategic Management

Conceptual Pluralism

Using Theory to Improve Practice

PART FIVE: THE PURPOSE OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

The Concept of Effectiveness

The Concept of Improvement

The Concept of Quality

Origins of TQM and Its Application to Education

Re-Engineering

PART SIX: STRATEGIC AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING IN EDUCATION

Who is Involved in Strategic Planning?

Development Planning

Management Style and Development Planning

Development Planning, Improvement and Effectiveness and Change

PART SEVEN: MANAGING STRATEGIC CHANGE

O autorze

Marianne Coleman is Reader Emerita in Educational Leadership at University College London, Institute of Education. Before a career in higher education at the University of Leicester and the Institute of Education she was a secondary school teacher and an advisory teacher in an LEA. Now retired, she continues to research and write focusing on her interest in gender and leadership and wider issues of diversity and social justice. She has recently co-authored a book on ageing and is a trustee of the Nurture Group Network, an educational charity which supports children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.