Educational governance and administration
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Educational governance and administration
Allyn and Bacon, c1999
4th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
This text, which takes a problem-solving approach, emphasizes school governance and administration. It provides a balanced overview of the development of thought in educational administration, providing readers with a realistic view of the promises and pitfalls of professionalism in administration. The fourth edition contains a comprehensive discussion of financial and legal problems that serves as a background for discussion of issues. An important theme that runs throughout the text is how conflicting values influence educational governance and administration. The authors also include a realistic treatment of the nature of administrative work.
目次
Most chapters include "References." I.THE CONTEXT FOR SCHOOLING IN THE UNITED STATES.
1.Public Values and School Policy: The Roots of Conflict.
Defining the Context.
Policy Instruments.
Public Values and School Policy.
Competing Values and Images of Schooling.
Three Theories of Leadership.
The School as a Moral Community.
Appendix.
2.Issues Shaping School Policy and Administration.
School Autonomy and Governmental Control.
Legislated Learning and Bureaucratic Teaching.
Balancing Democratic and Professional Authority.
Different Theories of Change.
Maintaining Public Confidence.
Managing Public Confidence.
3.Demographics and the Challenge to Education in the United States.
Persistent Problems.
Equality and Equity.
Population Changes.
Educational Attainment and Achievement.
Questions for Education.
A Viewpoint.
II.INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION.
4.Educational Administration: An Overview.
Policy and Policy in Use.
Administration Defined.
Critical Responsibilities of Administrators.
Evaluating Administrators.
Dimensions and Measures of School Effectiveness.
Critical Administrative Processes.
Critical Administrative Skills.
Educational Administration as Educational Leadership.
Managerial, Political, and Educational Roles.
Qualitative Aspects of Leadership
The Substance of Leadership in Education.
5.Educational Administration as an Emerging Profession.
Background.
Recent Pressures to Reform.
The Dark Side of Professionalism.
The Changing Focus.
Pursuing a Knowledge Base.
Women in Administration.
Women and the School Principalship.
Appendix.
6.The Development of Thought in Educational Administration.
Models of Administrative Practice.
Setting the Stage: Managers of Virtue.
Major Strands of Thought in Administration.
Educational Administration as an Applied Science.
A Reflective-Practice Perspective.
Educational Administration as a Moral Craft.
7.Theories and the Practice of Educational Administration.
Theory and Practice.
Challengers.
What Is to Be Learned?
8.Administrative Work, Roles, and Tasks.
The Work-Activity School.
The Nature of Managerial Work: Mintzberg.
Variation in Administrators' Work.
Characteristics of Administrative Work.
Time as a Scarce Resource.
III.A CULTURAL VIEW OF SCHOOLING AND ADMINISTRATION.
9.The Everyday Life of Students and Teachers in Schools.
The Concept of Culture.
Student Life in Schools.
Teacher Life in Schools.
Reforms and Teachers' Lives.
10.The Everyday Life of the School Principal.
Ed Bell and His School.
Portraits of Good High School Principals.
Principals as Instructional Leaders.
What Should Principals Do?
What Should Principals Not Do?
11.The Everyday Life of the School Superintendent.
Historical Overview of the Superintendency.
Superintendents and Conflict.
The Future of the Superintendency.
References.
IV.INTRODUCTION TO GOVERNANCE IN EDUCATION.
12.The School as a Political Organization.
The Four Values Revisited.
Reconciling Interests: The Problem of Collective Choice.
A Closer Look at Policy.
Influence, Power, and Authority Patterns.
Community Power Structure.
The Interests of Students and Parents.
Teachers and Their Organizations.
Minority Interests.
Business Interests.
Other Education Interests.
The Role of the Public.
13.Policy Making in the Local School District.
The Locus of Authority at the Local Level.
Policymakers at the Local Level.
School-Board Politics.
Three Versions of the Policy Process.
Collective Bargaining.
Site-Based Management.
14.The Influence of the Federal Government.
The Early History of Federal Involvement.
The Federal Role After World War II.
Categorical Aid for Economic and Social Problems.
Exit Equity, Enter Excellence.
Presidential Politics and School Reform.
The Federal Education Establishment Today.
15.The New State Role in Education.
What Makes State Education Policy?
The Emergence of a New State Role.
Interest Groups at the State Level.
Federal, State, and Local Relations.
The Centralization-Decentralization Issue.
V.LEGAL AND FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS.
16.Public Schools and the Law.
Understanding the Legal System.
Sources of School Law.
Administrative Responsibility.
State and Federal Judicial Structures and Jurisdiction.
Litigation and Preventive Law.
17.Legal Considerations in Public-School Administration.
Legal Sources and Specializations.
State Legal Considerations.
Torts (Negligence).
Contracts.
Limitations of Authority by the Federal Constitution.
Legal Standards of Liability.
Developing a Policy Regarding Sexual Misconduct amoung Students.
18.School Finance: Funding Schools for Excellence.
Revenue Generation and Distribution.
Income, Sales, and Property Taxes.
Criteria for Evaluating Taxes.
Nontax Sources of Revenue.
Distribution of State Revenues.
Constitutional Challenges to Funding Public Education: Three Waves of School Finance Litigaton.
Striving for Equity and Excellence: Financing Schools in the Twenty-First Century.
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