Policy Leadership and Professional Knowledge in Education

Preface/Records of Achievement/A Critical and Historical Review/PART ONE: TEACHERS/Teachers in Organizations/Devolution and Teachers' Work/The Underside of a Complex Phenomenon/Micropolitics of Educational Organizations/Leadership for a New Century/Authenticity Intentionality Spirituality and Sensibility/The Characterisation and Development of Professional Expertise in Education Management and in Teaching/PART TWO: THEORY/Educational Managers' Knowledge/The Quest for Useful Theory/Research in Educational Administration in Britain/Re-forming and Re-valuing Educational Administration/Whence and When Cometh the Phoenix?/Justifying Educational Administration/The Salvation of Educational Administration/Better Science or Alternatives to Science?/Towards the Learning Society/PART THREE: POLICY/Education Policy (1972-97)/The Emergence of the `Independent' School/Governing Schools/Has the Taylor Report Got the Balance Right?/Education - Going National?/Privatization/School Autonomy/Myth or Reality - Developing an Analytical Taxonomy/The Equity Consequences of Educational Reform /PART FOUR: LEADERSHIP/Challenges and Dilemmas/A Journey through Twenty-Five Years of Leader-Watching/Research Report/The Professional-as-Administrator: The Case of the Secondary School Head/Managing the Secondary School in the 1990s/A New View of Headship/From Transactions to Transformations/A New World Order in the Study of Leadership?/Context and Capability in Educational Management