Managing Further Education: Learning Enterprise (Centre for Educational Leadership and Management)

Lumby, Jacky

ISBN 10: 0761965599 / ISBN 13: 9780761965596

Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001

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• Titolo: Managing Further Education: Learning Enterprise (Centre for Educational Leadership and Management)
• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0761965599
• ISBN 13: 9780761965596
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good
• Peso: 299,4 grammi

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Riassunto

The incorporation of the further education sector in 1993 was followed by a period of extreme turbulence. Colleges plunged into the complex task of managing huge organizations while under pressure from cuts in funding and a steady expansion in the number and range of students. While financial scandals may have attracted attention, the success of the further education sector in continuing to provide a vital educational service for millions of people has been less recognized.

Despite the significant contribution of the sector to education and training, practitioners struggle to find adequate research evidence on which to base reflection and practice. They need material relevant to the specific situation of managers working w

Informazioni sull?autore

Jacky Lumby (Ph.D. University of Leicester) is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. She has taught and led in a range of educational settings, including secondary/high schools, community and further/technical education. She has also worked for a Training and Enterprise Council, with a regional responsibility for developing leaders across the public and private sectors. She has researched and published widely on educational policy, leadership and management in schools and colleges, in the UK and internationally. Her work on leadership encompasses a range of perspectives, including diversity issues, comparative and international perspectives and leading upper secondary education. She has co-edited International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders (2008). Her most recent book is, with Marianne Coleman, Leadership and Diversity: Challenging Theory and Practice in Education (2007). She is co- editor of the journal International Studies in Educational Administration and a member of the Council of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society.