Leading Schools in Times of Change
Contributors: Christopher Day (Editor)
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780335205820
Subjects: Educational administration; Schools; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Administration - General; Education / Teaching; Educational change; Educational leadership; Great Britain; School management and organiza; School management and organization; Education
First sentence: The challenges posed by the changing demands made upon schools in the past 20 years have exercised the minds of many writers on educational leadership in a number of countries because, while it is broadly agreed that the quality of teaching strongly influences levels of pupil motivation and achievement, it has been consistently argued that the quality of headship matters in determining the motivation of teachers and the quality of teaching which takes place in the classroom (Fullan 1992a, b; Eraut 1994; Hargreaves 1994; Ofsted 1995; Sammons et al. 1995; Day et al. 1998).