Educational management in managerialist times

"... will stir a lot of debate and be seminal to debates about the direction of education management for some time to come." Mike Bottery, Hull University

This important and provocative book is not another 'how to' educational management text. Instead it offers a critical review of the extensive educational management literature itself.

The main concern of the authors is that educational management texts do not do enough to encourage school leaders and teachers to challenge social inequality or the market and managerial reforms of the last decade. They demonstrate this problem through detailed analyses of texts in the areas of educational marketing, school improvement, development planning and strategic human resource management, school leadership and school change.

For academics and students, Education Management in Managerialist Times offers a critical guide to existing educational management texts and makes a strong case for redefining educational management along more socially and politically informed lines. The book also offers practitioners alternative management strategies intended to contest, rather than support, managerialism, while being realistic about the context within which those who lead and manage schools currently have to work.

This controversial new title brings a new insight to the educational management debate.

Part one: Background

Introduction
what's wrong with education management?
The market, neo-liberalism and the new managerialism
Inequality, education reform and the response of education management writers
Reading the textual apologists

Part two: The textual apologists

Educational marketing
School improvement
School development planning and strategic human resource management
School leadership
School change

Part three: Conclusion

Education management
where to now?
References
Index.