Educational Management

Tony Bush is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Nottingham, and previously held similar posts at the universities of Leicester, Reading, Lincoln and Warwick. He is President of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) and was presented with the Society's Distinguished Service Award in 2008. He is also a Fellow of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM). He has an established international profile, with research, consultancy, or invited keynote presentations in 22 countries on all six continents. He has published extensively on many aspects of educational leadership and management, and has been editor of the leading ISI-listed international journal, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership, since 2002. His other recent books include Leading and Managing People in Education (with David Middlewood), and The Principles of Educational Leadership and Management (with Les Bell and David Middlewood). 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)

Preface - Tony Bush et al Introduction - Tony Bush Setting the Scene PART ONE: SCHOOLS AND SELF-MANAGEMENT - Ron Glatter Modern Headship for the Rationally Managed School - Rosalind Levacic et al Combining Cerebral and Insightful Approaches Decentralization and Deregulation in Europe - Peter Karstanje Towards a Conceptual Framework Continuities and Changes in Primary Headship - Geoff Southworth Primary Schools and the Nature of the Education Market Place - Les Bell PART TWO: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Ray Bolam Understanding Leadership - Peter Ribbins Developing Headteachers Stages of Headship - Dick Weindling Promoting Continuing Professional Development for Teachers - Agnes McMahon An Achievable Target for School Leaders? Headteachers' Knowledge, Practice and Mode of Cognition - Michael Eraut PART THREE: THEORY DEVELOPMENT - Peter Ribbins Combining Cultural and Political Perspectives - Mike Wallace The Best of Both Conceptual Worlds? Institutional Transformation and Educational Management - Chris James Gender and Education Management - Valerie Hall Duel or Dialogue? School Effectiveness and School Improvement - Janet Ouston Critique of a Movement Can Leadership Enhance School Effectiveness? - Philip Hallinger and Ronald Heck PART FOUR: RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT - Les Bell Educational Administration, Leadership and Management - Ray Bolam Towards a Research Agenda Overview of a Group of Research Projects with Relevance to School Management - Mike Wallace and Dick Weindling Pedagogy, Educational Management and the TTA Research Agenda - Philippa Cordingley Researching and Constructing Histories of the Field of Educational Management - Helen Gunter

`It is rich in coverage and in depth. The language is comprehensible to educators, managers and researchers.... Overall, it is a good piece, a preferred addition for libraries. The editors deserve full acknowledgement for the effort put in to give shape to the volume' - Journal of Educational Planning and Administration `Educational management has become an important academic subject. The contributors to this volume have gauaranteed its survival as such by undertaking this review in order that they and others working in the field may take account of a range of agendas and initiatives. The outcome must be a fresh stance and a new sense of direction to enable a study of educational managment to meet the needs of teachers and their schools in the new millennium' - Educational Research `Researchers interested in various aspects of college leadership and management will find this book a convenient and scholarly introduction to related to research in the school sector' - Further Education Development Agency, College Research Journal