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Educational leadership : ambiguity, professionals and managerialism /

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 m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hoyle, Eric (Autor), Wallace, Mike, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 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