Lumby / Foskett Managing External Relations in Schools and Colleges

International Dimensions
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-1-4462-6520-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, WEB PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Centre for Educational Leadership and Management

`I was pleased to find that the work lived up to its title and covered both schools and college issues with equal thoroughness. This is a very readable, stimulating and valuable publication' - Mentoring & Tutoring This book explores all the major aspects of managing external relations in schools of all phases, as well as in colleges. The authors use empirical research evidence to analyze how schools and colleges can manage external relations to achieve productive and supportive relationships with their communities. They explore how a responsive philosophy and appropriate marketing can be adopted in order to ensure continuous development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lumby, Jacky

Foskett, Nicholas H

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface - Jacky Lumby and Nick Foskett
PART ONE: SETTING THE CONTEXT
The Vanishing Boundaries - Tony Bush
The Importance of Effective External Relations
Accountability in Education Systems - David Scott
Centralizing and Decentralizing Pressures
Strategy, External Relations and Marketing - Nick Foskett
Partnership, Alliances and Competition - Valerie Hall
Defining the Field
PART TWO: RELATING TO STAKEHOLDERS
Schools and the State - Keith Foreman
The State and Colleges - Jane Hemsley-Brown
Working with Governors - Peter Earley and Michael Creese
A Bridge to the Community?
Managing Relationships Between Schools and Parents - David Middlewood
Colleges and Customers - Peter Davies
Collaboration Between Schools - Margaret Preedy
Working with Employers and Business - Marianne Coleman
PART THREE: A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO EXTERNAL RELATIONS
Finding Your Place - Steve Waring
Sensing the External Environment
Achieving Responsiveness - Jacky Lumby
Communicating the Organization - Nick Foskett and Jane Hemsley-Brown

Über Autor(innen)

Foskett, Nicholas H
Nick Foskett - University of Southampton.

Lumby, Jacky
Jacky Lumby (Ph.D. University of Leicester) is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. She has taught and led in a range of educational settings, including secondary/high schools, community and further/technical education. She has also worked for a Training and Enterprise Council, with a regional responsibility for developing leaders across the public and private sectors. She has researched and published widely on educational policy, leadership and management in schools and colleges, in the UK and internationally. Her work on leadership encompasses a range of perspectives, including diversity issues, comparative and international perspectives and leading upper secondary education. She has co-edited International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders (2008). Her most recent book is, with Marianne Coleman, Leadership and Diversity: Challenging Theory and Practice in Education (2007). She is co- editor of the journal International Studies in Educational Administration and a member of the Council of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society.

Foskett, Nicholas H
Nick Foskett - University of Southampton.

Jacky Lumby (Ph.D. University of Leicester) is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. She has taught and led in a range of educational settings, including secondary/high schools, community and further/technical education. She has also worked for a Training and Enterprise Council, with a regional responsibility for developing leaders across the public and private sectors. She has researched and published widely on educational policy, leadership and management in schools and colleges, in the UK and internationally. Her work on leadership encompasses a range of perspectives, including diversity issues, comparative and international perspectives and leading upper secondary education. She has co-edited International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders (2008). Her most recent book is, with Marianne Coleman, Leadership and Diversity: Challenging Theory and Practice in Education (2007). She is co- editor of the journal International Studies in Educational Administration and a member of the Council of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society.