Policy, Leadership and Professional Knowledge in Education

Michael Strain, University of Ulster, Janet Ouston, Institute of Education, University of London ands Valerie Hall, University of Bristol

Preface - Tim Simkins Records of Achievement - Michael Strain A Critical and Historical Review PART ONE: TEACHERS Teachers in Organizations - Janet Ouston Devolution and Teachers' Work - John Smyth The Underside of a Complex Phenomenon Micropolitics of Educational Organizations - Eric Hoyle Leadership for a New Century - Narottam Bhindi and Patrick Duignan Authenticity, Intentionality, Spirituality and Sensibility The Characterisation and Development of Professional Expertise in Education Management and in Teaching - Michael Eraut PART TWO: THEORY Educational Managers' Knowledge - Michael Strain The Quest for Useful Theory Research in Educational Administration in Britain - George Baron Re-forming and Re-valuing Educational Administration - Thomas Greenfield Whence and When Cometh the Phoenix? Justifying Educational Administration - Colin Evers and Gabriele Lakomski The Salvation of Educational Administration - Peter Gronn and Peter Ribbins Better Science or Alternatives to Science? Towards the Learning Society - Stewart Ranson PART THREE: POLICY Education Policy (1972-97) - Bill Dennison The Emergence of the `Independent' School Governing Schools - Alan Barnes and Stephen Humble Has the Taylor Report Got the Balance Right? Education - Going National? - Dudley Fiske Privatization - Richard Pring School Autonomy - Brent Davies and Guilbert Hentschke Myth or Reality - Developing an Analytical Taxonomy The Equity Consequences of Educational Reform - Tim Simkins PART FOUR: LEADERSHIP Challenges and Dilemmas - Valerie Hall A Journey through Twenty-Five Years of Leader-Watching Research Report - Meredydd Hughes The Professional-as-Administrator: The Case of the Secondary School Head Managing the Secondary School in the 1990s - Peter Ribbins and Brian Sherratt A New View of Headship From Transactions to Transformations - Peter Gronn A New World Order in the Study of Leadership? Context and Capability in Educational Management - Ron Glatter

`For those who want to wallow in the past - this is a comfortable book that sets one's own experiences in context. For those who will still be working into the next century, here are the issues we must face as leaders. For those PhD and EdD students seeking topics to research, there are all the controversial issues here that still need investigation and it has a stunning list of references - a roll call of all the great and the good in the last 25 years of educational administration' - International Studies in Educational Administration