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Educational Reform: An Ironic Perspective
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Hoyle, Eric; Wallace, Mike – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2007
This article adopts "irony" as a frame for understanding some of the consequences of the reform movement in the UK. A distinction is drawn between the ironies that are endemic in all organizations and rooted in ambiguities and dilemmas, and the ironies that specifically flow from the disjunction between central policies and the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Educational Leadership: Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism
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Hoyle, Eric; Wallace, Mike – Paul Chapman Publishing, 2005
Irony has been selected as the organizing concept of this book because it offers a link between the authors' five main concerns. Their first concern is to bring to the fore a perspective on organizations that has existed for some time but has remained marginal to the prescriptive leadership and management literature. The second concern is to…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Figurative Language, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change