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Educational Leadership: Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism

By Mike Wallace , Eric Hoyle

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0761967435, 9780761967439, 0761967427, 9780761967422, 9781847877185
Open Library ID
OL10907829M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
599 kB (613488 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
224\225
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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