The ethics of educational management : personal, social and political perspectives on school organization

Author(s)

• Bottery, Mike

Bibliographic Information

The ethics of educational management : personal, social and political perspectives on school organization

Mike Bottery

（Education management series）

Cassell, 1992

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

"They lower their heads to pull the cart instead of raising their heads to look at the road." --t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Education has increasingly turned to business for its management theory and in this work, Mike Bottery questions the appropriateness of this relationship. He looks at what education has to learn from business, but also at the limitations which can be imposed by importing too literally ideas from business to education. The book views education as fundamentally concerned with the development of caring, responsible, informed and critical citizens, and argues that the management of schools must be structured to achieve these aims. This being the case, it is not enough to adopt in a wholesale manner the theories or other disciplines like business management, nor can such concerns as effectiveness and efficiency be the major preoccupation. Instead, it argues, education management must be based on personal, social and political concerns. This work is aimed at those involved in the local management of schools, those running and attending courses on school management, teachers, policy-makers and politicians.

Table of Contents

• Is value-free management possible?
• the legacy of scientific management
• the rationality of the bureaucrat
• the education of dissent
• educational management and the market place
• the education of business management
• education management in cross-cultural perspective - UK, USA and Japan
• leadership theory and headship in the 1990s
• the ethics of teacher participation
• children, the management of schools and political literacy
• the democratic school.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA27690220
• ISBN:
  • 0304324094
  • 0304324299
• LCCN: 92140974
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: 202 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : LB2900.5
  • DC20 : 371.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : School management and organization -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : School administrators -- Professional ethics -- Great Britain
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA18237615