Leadership and Strategic Management in South African Schools

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Marianne Coleman, Tony Bush
Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003 - Business & Economics - 242 pages
"All South Africans must now unite and join hands and say we are one country, one nation, one people, marching together into the future." -- Nelson Mandela
Human resource development is a high priority if South Africa is to improve teaching and education management to meet present and future needs. Many teachers have only limited training and most principals and senior staff have received no specific preparation for their management roles. This series, Managing Schools in South Africa, seeks to fill that gap. It aims to develop material directly relevant to school management. It integrates the best of theory, research and practice drawn from the most appropriate international sources which is directly applicable to a wide range of South African schools.

The focus of this volume is leadership and strategic management. Its central purpose is to provide insights into effective strategic management as a major contribution towards educational transformation in South Africa. Aimed at managers wishing to enhance their knowledge in the field of educational management, it offers guidelines on important aspects of good school management.

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Contents

The Context of Education Management
1
List of Tables and Figures
15
The Management of Schools
21
Theory and Practice in Educational Management
43
15
63
Organisational Structure
65
Organisational Culture
87
Managing the Change Process
101
Theories of Leadership
155
Leadership and Roles
173
Table
176
Strategic Management and Planning
189
Table
192
Table
199
Figure
207
Development Planning
215

School Effectiveness and School Improvement
117
Table
123
Quality Assurance and Accountability
137
The development plan and action plans
227
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About the author (2003)

Marianne Coleman is senior lecturer in educational management at the University of Leicester School of Education.

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