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Educational Leadership : Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism by Eric Hoyle; Mike Wallace; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Educational Leadership : Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism about?

This book explores the limits to rational management. The authors develop the idea of organizational irony as a central concept for analyzing and explaining management activity in a managerialist environment. Drawing on international research as well as their own extensive experience in educational organizations, the authors show that effectiveness is not necessarily the result of over-rationalistic approaches to educational management. Focusing on school leadership and management, authors Eric Hoyle and Mike Wallace suggest that major reforms have had limited success because the changes introduced have diverted school staff from their core task of promoting student learning. The result is dissatisfaction, frustration, and stress. The authors use the ironic perspective to show how practitioners respond by mediating the reforms.

Who reads Educational Leadership : Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism?

Author

Eric Hoyle; Mike Wallace; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Paul Chapman Publishing, a SAGE Publications Company, Customer Care, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243 (Toll Free); Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665 (Toll Free); e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.paulchapmanpublishing.co.uk/

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781446220078

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Education, Business