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| About the book |
This new collection of readings draws together three major and interrelated priorities for the educational manager: developing and maintaining quality, using resources effectively, and establishing a strategic overview and direction for the organization. In explaining these three concerns, the book aims to help educational managers to improve their own practice, by encouraging critical reflection on management processes and on how conceptual frameworks and research evidence can contribute to more effective professional performance in schools and colleges. The collection has a strongly practical flavour, focusing on frameworks, ideas and approaches that teachers can test out and develop in their own professional contexts. It includes material based on a wide range of educational settings, enabling managers to transcend sector boundaries in their thinking and to draw on insights from other sectors. This volume forms part of the Leadership and Management in Education series. This four book series provides a carefully chosen selection of high quality readings on key contemporary themes in educational management: professional development, reflection on practice, leadership, team working, effectiveness and improvement, quality, strategy and resources. The series will be an important resource for classroom teachers and lecturers as well as those holding designated management posts in schools and colleges and will provide a valuable basis for professional development programmes. |
| About the authors |
Margaret Preedy is a lecturer in the Centre for Educational Policy and Management, School of Education, The Open University. Ron Glatter is Professor of Educational Management and Director of the Centre for Educational Management, School of Education, The Open University. Rosalind Levacic is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Educational Policy and Management, and author of Local Management of Schools: analysis and practice, published by Open University Press. |
| Table of contents |
Introduction managing quality, resources and strategy Part one: Developing quality Monitoring educational quality Quality and equality competing or complementary objectives? Continuous improvement and quality standards Using success criteria Making sense of change A framework for curriculum development, policy implementation and monitoring quality Organizing learning Balancing school and individual approaches to pupil behaviour Curriculum evaluation as review and development the curriculum leader's role in creating a community of enquiry Part two: Managing resources Managing resources in educational institutions Resourcing education Budget analysis and construction Allocating budgets for curriculum support Unit costing in colleges Part three: Strategic management How strategies develop in organizations Linking strategic planning with the budgetary process Strategy and management in the further education sector Strategic planning in schools The impact of development planning in primary schools Leading projects Scanning the market school strategies for discovering parental perspectives The practice of educational marketing in schools Educational leadership Index. |
