Strategic Leadership and Educational Improvement (Published in association with The Open University)

This book is an essential resource for providers and students of postgraduate level courses in educational management and leadership development for head teacher induction programs. It is also suitable for use on short courses and for practitioners occupying or aspiring to leadership roles in schools, colleges and other educational organizations.

This book is part of the three-volume series, Leading and Managing for Effective Education. The series provides high quality readings on key contemporary issues including:

• Leadership, values and contextual influences
• Leadership preparation
• Strategy and managing change
• Organizational effectiveness
• Improvement and accountability
• Leading and managing people and teams

`Strategic Leadership and Educational Improvement contains essays that will be invaluable to those seeking succinct guides to the subtle elements of school improvement′ - Tim Brighouse, Times Educational Supplement

′Severely practical, in that they are directed towards practitioners who are serious about their careers and are seeking structured professional development, yet grounded in cutting-edge theory and research, these ′readers′ or collections of articles, represent excellent value-for-money and can be recommended to those who with to have an authoritative source from which to update their knowledge in a particular filed yet have not the time to cover the complete corpus of core literature.′ - Educational Research

The editors have managed to balance powerful authors in an impressive survey of current thinking about education. Author: School Leadership & Management, February 2004