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Educational Leadership: Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism

Educational Leadership: Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism

Hardcover

General Education

ISBN10: 0761967427
ISBN13: 9780761967422
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: Jan 26 2006
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.48
Language: English

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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