Academic Leadership

Enhancing School Effectiveness
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-45348-4
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

This book provides contemporary knowledge on school effectiveness and proposes strategic interventions for enhancing it. It focuses on improving academic leadership for enhancing the effectiveness of schools and discusses how national education policies are helpful in providing a vision towards improving school effectiveness.

It highlights the role of teachers as academic leaders in the implementation of policy recommendations at school and classroom levels. It offers methods and mechanisms for academic leaders to measure the learning of students for school assessment. The author also discusses how academic leadership involves creating a vision and mission based on science and research data for the organisation, inspiring innovation and creative ideas, developing teamwork, and a safe environment for staff to express their views. While providing an understanding of school as an organization, the volume outlines its management functions such as processes and quality of planning, management of curriculum, learner evaluation, institutional networks, and human resource management, among others. The volume is a guidebook for training and capacity building for school-level practitioners and leaders in education management.

Embedded with real-life cases and episodes, this volume will be of interest to teachers, students, and practitioners of education, management, and education management. It will also be useful for academicians, educationalists, practitioners, management professionals, educational leaders, and policymakers.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukhopadhyay, Marmar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Prof Vinayagum Chinapah. Preface. 1: School Effectiveness: An Introduction. 2: Understanding Academic Leadership. 3: Discovering the Leader in You 4: School-based Educational Policy Implementation Model (SEPIM) 5: Understanding School as an Organisation 6: Developing School as a Learning Organization 7: Leading Professional Learning 8: Nurturing and Leading the Leaders 9: Resource Planning and Management 10: Networking for Organizational Learning 11: Reorienting Administrative Management for School Effectiveness 12: Student Services and Parental Involvement for School Effectiveness 13: School Effectiveness Audit 14: Towards Quality Culture and Graduation in Leadership

Über Autor(innen)

Marmar Mukhopadhyay is Chairman of Educational Technology and Management Academy, Gurgaon, India. He represents a unique blend of experience in educational management as a researcher, trainer, institution builder, and author spread over more than four decades. He completed twenty research and consultancy assignments commissioned by agencies like UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, USAID, British Council, COL, etc. Marmar has trained a few thousand Heads of academic institutions from India and more than fifty other countries. He has served in academic leadership positions (as a Head) in two major Indian national institutions, and in international organizations like ICDE and IMAGE. Three of his notable publications include Total Quality Management in Education, Quality Management in Higher Education and Leadership for Institution Building in Education.