Leading People: Learning From People - Softcover

Bell, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335200745 ISBN 13: 9780335200740

Publisher: Open University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This text examines what actually happens, as well as what ought to happen, in the quest for best practice in education. It investigates the experiences of educators and teachers, in their continuous quest to improve the quality of learning and teaching provision. It provides case studies from a range of different educational settings in the UK and Australia which reveal how educational leaders and practitioners are handling new priorities and programmes for change in the late 1990s.

About this title

About the Author

Judith Bell has worked as a university lecturer, head of department and vice principal in colleges of further education, senior counsellor and course team writer at the Open University and as one of Her Majesty's Inspectors (twice), specialising in further and higher education. She has held honorary fellowships at the Universities of Lancaster, Warwick and Sheffield and now works as a writer and education consultant. She has written or edited seven books, mainly concerned with research methods and education management, including Doing Your Research Project Open University Press.Bernard T. Harrison is Professor and Dean of Education at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, having held the same positions in the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on topics relating to the teaching of English, leadership and the management of educational institutions. His recent books include The Literate Imagination (1994) and (with Judith Bell) Vision and Values in Managing Education (1995).

Review

"The value of this book is that, carefully and sensitivelyread, it challenges the prejudices of managerialists and anti-managerialists alike." - The Higher "It is a privilege, and even an indulgence, to be able to read a book about one's own job!Vice-Chancellors, Pro-Vice-Chancellors, Deans, senior administrators and head of departments areall provided with this possibility by Robin Middlehurst's book. Aspirants to any of these jobs (and thepressganged) should certainly read it! It serves as a primer and an analysis and-for the aspirants-a warning about how difficult many of these jobs have become. It should be compulsory reading! The author has written a book which is an ambitious, thoughtful and wise. She draws on past history, theory from a range of disciplines and experience of the present from her empirical work, and she is not afraid to look ahead to the future." - Educational Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335200745
• ISBN 13: 9780335200740
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192