Managing Autonomous Schools: The Grant-Maintained Experience - Softcover

Bush, Tony; Coleman, Marianne; Glover, Derek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853962023 ISBN 13: 9781853962028

Publisher: Paul Chapman Educational Publishing, 1993

Synopsis

′The book offers both teachers and governors a clear picture, grounded in research, of what it means in practice for school managers to choose the grant-maintained route′ - Teacher Development

This innovative book is based on independent research funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The authors examine the experience of the grant-maintained pioneers through a survey of the first 100 schools and through detailed case studies of five of them.

About this title

About the Author:

Tony Bush is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Nottingham, and previously held professorial positions at the universities of Leicester, Reading, Lincoln, and Warwick.   He is a vice-president and Council member of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) and was awarded the Society’s Distinguished Service Award in 2008.  He has been the editor of the Society’s international academic journal, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership (EMAL) since 2002. He is also a Fellow of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM). Tony has published more than 90 refereed journal articles, and 30 books, including his best-selling ‘Theories of Educational Leadership and Management’, which is now in its fourth edition and has been translated into several languages. His extensive international work includes consultancy, research external examining, and invited keynote presentations, in 22 countries on all six continents.

Review:

′The book offers both teachers and governors a clear picture, grounded in research, of what it means in practice for school managers to choose the grant-maintained route′ - Teacher Development

About this edition

• Publisher: Paul Chapman Educational Publishing
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1853962023
• ISBN 13: 9781853962028
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248