Fundamental concepts of educational leadership and management
/ Taher A. Razik, Austin D. Swanson
- 3rd ed.
- Boston : Allyn & Bacon, 2010
- xxiii, 408 p.
Part I. The context of educational leadership. The imperative for education reform -- The power of systems thinking for educational change -- Schools as organizational systems -- -- Part II. Schools as learning organizations. Leadership for learning organizations -- Human relations : the base for educational leadership -- Communication : the breath of organizational life -- -- Part III. Values, analysis, and information. The impact of personal values on an organization's decision outcomes -- Evaluation in education -- The role of information technology -- -- Part IV. Decision making. Educational policy formulation in a mixed economy -- District- and school-based decision making : strategy formation and planning -- The allocation of resources for education adequacy, equity, and efficiency -- -- Part V. Implementation of systemic change. Systemic change -- Educational leadership in a flat world.