Educational Management : Strategy, Quality and Resources

This new collection of readings draws together three major and interrelated priorities for the educational manager: developing and maintaining quality, using resources effectively, and establishing a strategic overview and direction for the organization.
In explaining these three concerns, the book aims to help educational managers to improve their own practice, by encouraging critical reflection on management processes and on how conceptual frameworks and research evidence can contribute to more effective professional performance in schools and colleges.
The collection has a strongly practical flavour, focusing on frameworks, ideas and approaches that teachers can test out and develop in their own professional contexts. It includes material based on a wide range of educational settings, enabling managers to transcend sector boundaries in their thinking and to draw on insights from other sectors.

Margaret Preedy is a lecturer in the Centre for Educational Policy and Management, School of Education, The Open University. Ron Glatter is Professor of Educational Management and Director of the Centre for Educational Management, School of Education, The Open University. Rosalind Levacic is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Educational Policy and Management, and author of Local Management of Schools: analysis and practice, published by Open University Press.