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Education Leadership : Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism.
"This book is an excellent read about management and leadership in schools. I liked the elements that made up the ironic orientation (scepticism, pragmatism and contingency), recognizing them in my own experiences in higher education, and I liked the way in which the concept of irony was linked...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Sage Publications,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.