School Administration: Persistent Dilemmas in Preparation and Practice

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• I Understanding Educational Dilemmas 1
• 1: Reforming the Practice of Educational Administration Through Managing Dilemmas 3
• 2: Managing Dilemmas In Education: The Tightrope Walk of Strategic Choice in Autonomous Institutions 18
• Conclusion 28
• Notes 29
• 3: Persistent Dilemmas In Administrative Preparation and Practices in Underdeveloped and Developing Countries 30
• Conclusion 42
• Acknowledgment 44
• II Societal and Ethical Dilemmas in School Administration 45
• 4: Administering for Diversity: Dilemmas in Multiethnic Schools 47
• Conclusion 61
• Notes 62
• 5: Suspended Morality and the Denial of Ethics: How Value Relativism Muddles the Distinction Between Right and Wrong in Administrative Decisions 63

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• I Understanding Educational Dilemmas 1
• 1: Reforming the Practice of Educational Administration Through Managing Dilemmas 3
• 2: Managing Dilemmas In Education: The Tightrope Walk of Strategic Choice in Autonomous Institutions 18
• Conclusion 28
• Notes 29
• 3: Persistent Dilemmas In Administrative Preparation and Practices in Underdeveloped and Developing Countries 30
• Conclusion 42
• Acknowledgment 44
• II Societal and Ethical Dilemmas in School Administration 45
• 4: Administering for Diversity: Dilemmas in Multiethnic Schools 47
• Conclusion 61
• Notes 62
• 5: Suspended Morality and the Denial of Ethics: How Value Relativism Muddles the Distinction Between Right and Wrong in Administrative Decisions 63
• Conclusion 73
• 6: Imagination and Character in Educational Administration 75
• III Organizational Dilemmas in School Administration 87
• 7: Monetary Incentives and the Reform of Teacher Compensation: A Persistent Organizational Dilemma 89
• Conclusions 98
• Note 100
• 8: Performance Related Pay and Professional Development 101
• Conclusion 110
• 9: Equity and Efficiency: Tensions in School-Based Management in England and Wales 111
• Conclusion 122
• Notes 123
• IV Role Dilemmas of School Leaders 125
• 10: Principals' Dilemmas: Intraorganizational Demands and Environmental Boundary Spanning Activities Jack Y. L. Lam 127
• Conclusion 136
• 11: New Principals' Experiences With Leadership: Crossing the Cultural Boundary 137
• Conclusion 144
• 12: The Dilemmas of Exercising Political Leadership in Educational Policy Change 146
• V Dilemmas in The Professional Development of School Administrators 165
• 13: Problem-Based Learning as an Approach to the Professional Development of School Leaders: A Case Study 167
• 14: Boundary Mentoring: A Solution to the Persistent Dilemma of How to Educate School Administrators 177
• Conclusion 195
• Acknowledgments 196
• Notes 196
• 15: The Need for Mentoring in a Developing Country 197
• Conclusion 204
• VI Dilemmas of Shared Leadership in Decentralized Schools 205
• 16: Reframing Educational Leadership in the Perspective of Dilemmas 207
• Conclusion 224
• Notes 225
• 17: Devolution and the Changing Role of the Principal: Dilemmas and a Research Agenda 226
• Conclusion 246
• 18: Knowledge-In-Use: Reconceptualizing the Use of Knowledge in School Decision Making 247
• Conclusion 254
• Acknowledgment 255
• References 257
• Index 287
• About the Contributors 293