Managing Education The Purpose and Practice of Good Management in Schools

The 1988 Education Reform Act meant that schools had to manage themselves in ways which satisfied the world outside the school gates. Governors become more powerful, parents took on a greater influence and employers were given new rights. This book discusses the total management of schools as they respond to these new imperatives. It examines the responsibilities of Teachers, Head Teachers and Principals as they shape and execute their management plans. Against the background of a compulsory National Curriculum, the book also examines the management of the diverse pressures within the curriculum itself.

PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Education, its manager and the public2. Managers of development and change: the shift from expecting to requiring3. Training4. Corporate management5. Marshalling attitudes6. Managing connections within education7. Lessons from the past8. Managing the new9. New training for new management10. Responding to alternatives11. New demands on management12. New responses from management13. Responsibility and self-justificationEnd NoteReferences Index

Joslyn Owen