Product Description
An educator's guide to school management-leadership skills (2nd edition)
Author: I van Deventer
Format: Physical Hardcopy
The constantly changing education landscape demands educators who will deliver learners to a South African society worthy of the highest ideals, learners who will, as adults, fulfil their life roles as citizens and as productive, well-adjusted human beings.
By acquiring the necessary management and leadership knowledge and skills, educators will be able to realise the ideal of building an education system that focuses on excellence, a system that is accessible to all and promotes the development of those entrusted to them. An educator’s guide to school management-leadership skills focuses on bringing education manager-leaders practical and school-based directives so that they can deliver quality education to our nation’s learners.
An educator’s guide to school management-leadership skills takes a holistic and integrated approach, set against the backdrop of international successes such as Finland’s road to education transformation according to the PISA tests. It focuses on the following:
An educator’s guide to school management-leadership skills is aimed at students and practitioners in the field of education.
Features:
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Developing excellence in schools
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Management-leadership tasks in complex school environments
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Managing and leading human resources
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Managing and leading financial, administrative and ICT matters in education
Contents:
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Section A Developing excellence in schools: management-leadership discourses in education
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Chapter 1 An international perspective on management-leadership towards education change: case Finland
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Chapter 2 Education management-leadership: a historical and future-orientated perspective
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Chapter 3 Managing and leading organisational change in schools
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Chapter 4 Manage and lead the organisational climate and culture of schools
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Chapter 5 Management-leadership for social justice and care in a diverse world
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Section B Management-leadership tasks in complex school environments
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Chapter 6 Education management-leadership tasks in schools
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Chapter 7 Visualising and planning skills as management-leadership tasks
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Chapter 8 Organising as a management-leadership task
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Chapter 9 Leading and directing people as management-leadership tasks
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Chapter 10 Control and accountability as management-leadership tasks
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SECTION C Managing and leading human resources: Staff, learners and community relationships
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Chapter 11 Human resource management and development: ensuring an effective staff
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Chapter 12 Establishing harmonious relationships in a school
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Chapter 13 Coping with organisational stress
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Chapter 14 Management-leadership for diversity in education: employment equity, fairness and non-discrimination
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Chapter 15 Managing and leading the pedagogic-instructional programme
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Chapter 16 Managing and leading learner behaviour
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Chapter 17 Management-leadership of school-community relationships
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Section D Managing and leading financial, administrative and ICT matters in education
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Chapter 18 Efficient financial management-leadership in schools
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Chapter 19 Getting administrative matters right: administrative and support staff
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Chapter 20 Managing and leading ICT integration in schools
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