Educational Leadership and Change: An International Perspective

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Contents Foreword ix Angela Thody Preface xi Bill Mulford Contributors xiii Introduction 1 Section A Setting the Scene 1 The Evolution of Change and the New Work of the Educational 15 Leader Michael G. Fullan 2 School-Based Management: Will it Fly? 29 Larry E. Sackney and Dennis J. Dibski 3 The Self-Managing School: A Matter of Being and of Becoming 43 Allan K. Beavis 4 Thinking About School Restructuring: A Case and Some 59 Observations From Research in Progress Richard Elmore vi Contents 5 Management of Educational Innovations: The 'Six-A' 69 Process Model Alex Fung 6 The Neglected Dimension: Cultural Comparison in Educational 87 Administration Cheng Kai-Ming Section B Devolving Responsibility to Schools 7 School-Community Relations: The Principal's Role 105 Akhila Nand Sharma 8 Roles and Functioning of Boards of Governors of 115 Provincial High Schools in Papua New Guinea Api C. Maha 9 Challenges of the Future to School-Based Management - 131 The Indian Context C.L. Sapra 10 School Management Initiative in Hong Kong - 141 The Devolution of Power to Schools, Real or Rhetoric? Wong Kam-Cheung 11 Parental Choice and School Decision Making: 155 Operating in a Market-like Environment Ron Glatter and Philip Woods 12 Educative School Executive Teams and the Productivity of 173 Schools: An Applied Research Project Proposal R.l.S. Macpherson 13 Three Possibilities for Progress in Educational Administration: 187 Reform, Techno-Science Rationality, Research Brian O. Cusack Section C Preparing School Leaders 14 The Teaching Professional in an Uncertain World 201 Eric Hoyle Contents vii 15 Professional Leadership and Quality Education 213 Neville H. Fry 16 A Professional Council for Teachers 225 Tom Bone 17 School Principals - Entrepreneurial Professionals 233 Hugh O. Jenkins 18 Training of Educational Administrators in China 247 Jiang Ming 19 The Professional Training and Development of Educational 255 Managers in the Republic of South Africa Louis P. Calitz 20 Some Theoretical and Practical Implications of an Assessment 269 and Development Centre for Headteachers Geoffrey Lyons ...