Organizing Public Education

Howard Stevenson is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publication Activities, and the Vice Provost for Harvard University Planning and Resources. A member and former chair of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, he has served as the School's Senior Associate Dean and Director of External Relations, chair of the Latin American Faculty Advisory Group, Senior Associate Dean and Director of Financial and Information Systems, and faculty chair of Executive Education's Owner/President Manager (OPM) Program. Professor Stevenson's research focuses on the life patterns that create enduring success, entrepreneurship and predictability. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 case studies, numerous articles, and nine books-including Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life (with L. Nash) and, Make Your Own Luck: 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business (with E. Shapiro). He has created several successful companies. Currently he is a director of Camp Dresser & McKee and Landmark Communications. He is a director of National Public Radio, a Trustee of the Massachusetts chapter of The Nature Conservancy, Mt. Auburn Hospital, and Trustee Emeritus of The Boston Ballet. He served as Director and President of The Sudbury Valley Trustees.

VOLUME ONE: ORGANIZING EDUCATIONAL POLICY The Global Challenge - M. Bottery Globalization and Its Impact on Education with Specific Reference to Education in South Africa - K.C. Moloi, S.J. Gravett and N.F. Peterson Gender Inequality and Education - Jill Blackmore Changing Local/Global Relations in a 'Post-Colonial' World and Implications for Feminist Research The Elusive Goal of Nation-Building - Yeow Tong Chia Asian/Confucian Values and Citizenship Education in Singapore during the 1980s C Chris Gifford et al Post-National Citizenship and Higher Education in the European Union C L.C. Chiang Trading on the West's Strength The Dilemmas of Transnational Higher Education in East Asia Neo-Liberalism, Higher Education and the Knowledge Economy - Mark Olssen and Michael Peters From the Free Market to Knowledge Capitalism The State, Privatization and Educational Policy - C. Torres A Critique of Neo-Liberalism in Latin America and Some Ethical and Political Implications Doing Things the 'Right' Way - Michael Apple Legitimating Educational Inequalities in Conservative Times Education - Gerald Grace and Martin Thrupp Commodity or Public Good? 20 Years on Transformative Pedagogy, Leadership and School Organization for the 21st Century Knowledge-Based Economy - Clive Dimmock and Jonathan Goh The Case of Singapore Building Social Capital in Professional Learning Communities - Bill Mulford Importance, Challenges and a Way forward Making Education Reform Happen - Philip Hallinger Is There an 'Asian' Way? Educational Reform - Eric Hoyle and Mike Wallace An Ironic Perspective 20 Years of Progress? English Education Policy 1988 to the Present - Geoff Whitty Strategic Planning and School Management - Les Bell Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing? Distributed Leadership - Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink Democracy or Delivery? VOLUME TWO: ORGANIZING THE GOVERNANCE OF EDUCATION Slouching towards Decentralization - M. Fernanda Astiz, Alexander Wiseman and David Baker Consequences of Globalization for Curricular Control in National Education Systems Education Decentralization and Accountability Relationships in Latin America - Emanuela di Gropello Persistent Preoccupations - Ron Glatter The Rise and Rise of School Autonomy and Accountability in England Educational Decentralization in Three Asian Societies - Esther Sui-chu Ho Japan, Korea and Hong Kong Privatizing Education, Privatizing Education Policy, Privatizing Educational Research - Stephen Ball Network Governance and the 'Competition State' Privatization Reform and Inequality of Educational Opportunity - Florencia Torche The Case of Chile Management Ideology - Rosemary Deem and Kevin Brehony The Case of New Managerialism in Higher Education Transnational Higher Education and Challenges for University Governance in China - Kok Chung Ong and David Chan Bureaucratic, Corporate/Market and Network Governance - Jill Blackmore Shifting Spaces for Gender Equity in Education The Changing Governance of Education - Stewart Ranson School Governing Bodies in South African Schools - Jan Heystek Under Pressure to Enhance Democratization and Improve Quality The New Enterprise Logic of the Academy Programme - Brian Caldwell Joining up the Dots - Ron Glatter Academies and System Coherence Race, Charter Schools and Conscious Capitalism - Kristen Buras On the Spatial Politics of Whiteness as Property (and the Unconscionable Assault on Black New Orleans) Improving Schools and Raising Standards - Pam Sammons The Impact of Standards-Based Educational Reforms in England Governing Education through Data in England - Jenny Ozga From Regulation to Self-Evaluation VOLUME THREE: ORGANIZING EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT Educational Management - Tony Bush Theory and Practice Developing Comparative and International Educational Leadership and Management - Clive Dimmock and Allan Walker A Cross-Cultural Model Leading Organizational Culture - Jacky Lumby Issues of Power and Equity Towards the Third-Wave School Leadership - Yin Cheng Leading with a Moral Purpose - Paul Begley The Place of Ethics Power, Risk and Utility - Jacky Lumby and Nick Foskett Interpreting the Landscape of Culture in Educational Leadership Leadership as a Subversive Activity - John MacBeath Educational Leadership - Saeeda Shah An Islamic Perspective The Principalship in Developing Countries - Izhar Oplatka Context, Characteristics and Reality Principled Principals? Values-Driven Leadership: Evidence from 10 Case Studies of 'Outstanding' School Leaders - Anne Gold et al Meeting the Challenges of Cultural Leadership - Philip Hallinger The Changing Role of Principals in Thailand Culture, Societal Culture and School Leadership - Peter Ribbins and Junhua Zhang A Study of Selected Head Teachers in Rural China Passionate Rationalism - Gabriele Lakomski and Colin Evers The Role of Emotion in Decision-Making School Leaders' Influences on Student Learning - Kenneth Leithwood et al The Four Paths Designer Leadership - Peter Gronn The Emerging Global Adoption of Preparation Standards Learning to Be Political - Gary Crow and Dick Weindling New English Head Teachers' Roles Distributed Leadership - James Spillane The Tyranny of Bureaucracy - Tanya Fitzgerald Continuing Challenges of Leading and Managing from the Middle Distributed Leadership in Higher Education - Richard Bolden, Georgy Petrov and Jonathan Gosling Rhetoric and Reality A Case Study in Leading Schools for Social Justice - Howard Stevenson When Morals and Markets Collide VOLUME FOUR: ORGANIZING PERFORMANCE, PROFESSIONALISM AND PEDAGOGY Learning-Centred Leadership - Geoff Southworth Constructivist Leadership - Linda Lambert Teachers as Leaders in a Knowledge Society - Dorothy Andrews and Frank Crowther Encouraging Signs of a New Professionalism Reflections on the NCSL from an Historical Perspective - Ray Bolam Policy and Workforce Reform in England - Helen Gunter Teacher Incentives and Performance - Rosalind Leva?i? An Application of Principal-Agent Theory Performativity and Identity - Jacky Lumby Mechanisms of Exclusion The Teacher's Soul and the Terrors of Performativity - Stephen Ball What's so Important about Teachers' Working Conditions? The Fatal Flaw in North American Educational Reform - Nina Bascia and Cindy Rottmann Committed for Life? Variations in Teachers' Work, Lives and Effectiveness - Christopher Day Restructuring Teachers' Work and Trade Union Responses in England - Howard Stevenson Bargaining for Change? 'Collaborative' and 'Democratic' Professionalisms - Geoff Whitty and Emma Wisby Alternatives to 'Traditional' and 'Managerialist' Approaches to Teacher Autonomy? Teacher Professionalism and Continuing Professional Development - Les Bell and Ray Bolam Contested Concepts and Their Implications for School Leaders Sustainable Professional Learning Communities - Andy Hargreaves Dusting off the Phoenix - Valerie Hall Gender and Educational Management Revisited 'Zealotry or Nostalgic Regret'? Women Leaders in Technical and Further Education in Australia: Agents of Change, Entrepreneurial Educators or Corporate Citizens - Jill Blackmore and Judyth Sachs Contesting the Orthodoxy of Teacher Leadership - Tanya Fitzgerald and Helen Gunter Academic housework? Women Professors at the University of New Zealand 1911-1961 - Tanya Fitzgerald Creating a School Environment for the Effective Management of Cultural Diversity - B.R. Grobler et al