Educational Management

Preface/Introduction/Setting the Scene/PART ONE: SCHOOLS AND SELF-MANAGEMENT/Modern Headship for the Rationally Managed School/Combining Cerebral and Insightful Approaches/Decentralization and Deregulation in Europe/Towards a Conceptual Framework/Continuities and Changes in Primary Headship/Primary Schools and the Nature of the Education Market Place/PART TWO: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/Understanding Leadership/Developing Headteachers/Stages of Headship/Promoting Continuing Professional Development for Teachers/An Achievable Target for School Leaders?/Headteachers' Knowledge Practice and Mode of Cognition/PART THREE: THEORY DEVELOPMENT/Combining Cultural and Political Perspectives/The Best of Both Conceptual Worlds?/Institutional Transformation and Educational Management/Gender and Education Management/Duel or Dialogue?/School Effectiveness and School Improvement/Critique of a Movement/Can Leadership Enhance School Effectiveness?/PART FOUR: RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT/Educational Administration Leadership and Management/Towards a Research Agenda/Overview of a Group of Research Projects with Relevance to School Management/Pedagogy Educational Management and the TTA Research Agenda/Researching and Constructing Histories of the Field of Educational Management