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Peer reviewedDavies, Brent – Educational Management & Administration, 2003
Reviews nature of strategy and strategic leadership in schools. Considers how leaders can map and reconceptualize the nature of strategy and develop strategic capabilities for longer-term sustainability. Questions hierarchical models of leadership. Highlights three characteristics of strategically oriented schools; suggests ways to improve art of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Vertical Organization
Peer reviewedWebb, Rosemary; Vulliamy, Graham – Educational Management & Administration, 1996
Documents the growing tension between primary heads' administrative and professional roles and between top-down and collegial management styles, based on qualitative data from a national sample of 50 Welsh and English schools. Highlights the 1988 Education Reform Act's emphasis on monitoring and quality assurance and headteachers' developing…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Collegiality, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHarper, Harriet – Educational Management & Administration, 2000
A research project examined what form of organizational structures have been adopted within British further-education colleges 5 years after their incorporation and removal from local-education authority control. Colleges are representing their structures as market models (alongside a clan culture), rather than Weberian bureaucracies. (Contains 29…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Colleges
