Creating an Excellent School

by Beare, Hedley; Caldwell, Brain; Millikan, Ross

• ISBN13: 9780415047173
• ISBN10: 041504717X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
Foreword	ix
Preface: Why this Book is Necessary	xi
The Movement to Create Excellent Schools	1	(22)
From School Effects to Effective Schools: the movement from Coleman to Edmonds	1	(10)
Measuring effectiveness	11	(3)
Case studies	14	(1)
The characteristics of good schools	15	(1)
Conservatism about schooling	15	(1)
The notion of culture	16	(3)
Towards excellence in organisations	19	(4)
Educational Administration Theory Since 1975	23	(19)
A new diversity of approaches	26	(2)
New paradigms	28	(2)
Education as a loosely coupled system	30	(1)
Culture and metaphor	31	(1)
New tools of analysis	32	(2)
Policy studies	34	(1)
Corporate planning and programme budgeting	35	(3)
School councils	38	(1)
The role of the head of school	39	(1)
The way forward	39	(3)
Re-conceptualising the School	42	(20)
Expectations for schooling	43	(4)
Are we aiming too high?	47	(3)
Mastery learning	50	(3)
Vertical curriculum	53	(1)
Flexible school day/week	54	(3)
Flexitime employment of teachers	57	(1)
Community support personnel	58	(2)
Total educational development	60	(2)
Coming to Terms with Administrative Structures	62	(37)
The essential task of schools - teaching and learning	62	(7)
New organisational structures: corporate management	69	(9)
Corporate management structures in education	78	(2)
The functional design	80	(3)
Structural overlays	83	(2)
The operational domain	85	(1)
The projects and planning domain	86	(1)
The professional service domain	87	(1)
The political domain	88	(1)
Education as a loosely coupled system	89	(8)
Conclusion	97	(2)
Leadership	99	(26)
Leader and leadership defined	100	(2)
Leadership traits and theories: part of the picture	102	(1)
Traits of leaders	102	(1)
Theories of leadership	103	(2)
A decade of study: the larger picture	105	(1)
Emerging generalisations	106	(10)
Vision in school leadership: guidelines and illustrations	116	(1)
The nature of vision	117	(1)
Guidelines - 1	118	(1)
Illustration - 1	119	(1)
Communicating the vision	120	(1)
Symbolic leadership	120	(1)
Guidelines - 2	120	(1)
Illustration - 2	121	(2)
Summary	123	(2)
A Model for Managing an Excellent School	125	(26)
Management of change	126	(7)
The recommended model	133	(4)
Guidelines and illustrations	137	(12)
Summary	149	(2)
Focus on Learning and Teaching	151	(21)
New patterns of management in education	152	(1)
A model for instructional leadership	153	(7)
Developing capability at the school level	160	(5)
Approaches to learning and teaching in the future	165	(2)
A vision for the twenty-first century	167	(3)
Conclusion	170	(2)
How to Enhance School Culture	172	(29)
Culture	175	(5)
School culture: conceptual intangible foundations	180	(6)
An agenda for action: tangible expressions and symbolism	186	(13)
Coda	199	(2)
Performance Indicators and Accountability	201	(25)
Objectives	201	(3)
The Dror model for evaluation of public policy	204	(7)
Audience	211	(5)
Accountability in context	216	(10)
Projecting a Public Image About the School	226	(26)
Defining the terms	230	(2)
Identifiers of image	232	(5)
Consistent professional behaviour	237	(1)
Institutional training	238	(2)
Product diversity and customer choice	240	(2)
Capitalising on the privatisation rhetoric	242	(2)
Networking, or using the grapevine	244	(1)
Market research	245	(2)
Using the media; and education's own printing press	247	(1)
The symbolic aspects of policy	248	(1)
Names and titles	249	(1)
Education's public face	250	(2)
Excellent Schools: Putting it All Together	252	(13)
Bibliography	265	(18)
Index	283