Educational leadership [[electronic resource] ] : ambiguity, professionals and managerialism / / Eric Hoyle and Mike Wallace

• Autore: Hoyle Eric
• Pubblicazione: London, : SAGE, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 212 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.2011
• Soggetto topico: School management and organization; Educational leadership
• Altri autori: WallaceMike <1950->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-207) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Prefeace; Acknowledgements; Part I: The Nature of Irony; Chapter 1 - Introducing the ironic perspective; Chapter 2 - Endemic ambiguities: the preconditions of irony; Chapter 3 - The ambiguities of policy implementation; Part II: Irony and managerialism; Chapter 4 - From management to managerialism; Chapter 5 - A solution in search of a problem; Part III: The rhetoric of managerialism and leadership; Chapter 6 - The myth of transformation; Chapter 7 - Transmissional leadership for political transformation ; Part IV: The ironic response and the future of managerialismChapter 8 - Patterns of ironic response; Chapter 9 - The ironic orientation and professional practice; Chapter 10 - Temperate leadership and management: living with irony; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The authors develop the idea of organizational irony as a concept for analyzing management activity in a managerialist environment. Using international research as well as their own experience, they show that effectiveness is not necessarily the result of over-rationalist approaches to educational management.
• Titolo autorizzato: Educational leadership
• ISBN: 0-7619-6742-7; 1-281-25094-5; 9786611250942; 1-84787-718-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777048003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II