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Download full textWallace, Mike; Hall, Valerie – 1994
This paper discusses the concept of a dual cultural and political perspective for analyzing interaction. It also illustrates how this dual perspective can explain how senior management teams (SMTs) operate in English secondary schools, in which senior faculty profess commitment to teamwork. Methodology included: (1) case studies of six secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interaction, Interprofessional Relationship, Leadership
Boyle, R.; Boyle, T.; Brown, M. – 1999
This paper examines whether the delegating of whole-school decision making reaches to, involves, and empowers the middle-management level. It looks for evidence of alternative models of management for decision making and identifies commonalities between the perceptions and the practices of headteachers and middle managers. The research for the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBennett, Nigel – School Leadership & Management, 1999
The five papers in this special section explore basic middle-management issues at the secondary level in various countries, including subject leader/department heads' range of responsibilities and effects of school cultures. New training standards demand a blending of line management, accountability, leadership, followership, and collegial…
Descriptors: Accountability, Collegiality, Departments, Foreign Countries
Davies, Brent; Ellison, Linda – 1991
This paper discusses the recent implementation in England of school improvement reforms based on school choice and in particular on a system of school-based management whereby total financial control is vested in individual schools. The first section briefly describes the financial structure of the English educational system, followed by an…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Finance Reform
Nkata, James L.; Thody, Angela M. – 1995
This paper investigates the challenges that Uganda and England have faced in beginning to reestablish community participation in the governance of education. It investigates starting points for the possible development of school-governance systems in both countries. Outlined first are the formats for community involvement that have been adopted in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Advisory Committees, Centralization, Community Involvement
Harris, Alma – 2002
This paper takes a distributed perspective on leadership practice in schools. Drawing upon empirical evidence from two contemporary studies of successful school leadership and the international research base concerning distributed leadership, the paper argues that leadership practice is a distributed entity that is mediated through human…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Educational Improvement
