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Informationen zum Autor John MacBeath is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge, Director of Leadership for Learning: the Cambridge Network and Projects Director for the Centre for Commonwealth Education. Until 2000 he was Director of the Quality in Education Centre at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. As well as his interest and research on leadership he has, for the last decade, worked with schools, education authorities and national governments on school self-evaluation. Five books on self-evaluation have been addressed mainly to a teacher and senior management readership. These include Schools Must Speak for Themselves, Self-Evaluation in European Schools, Self-evaluation: what's in it for schools? Self-evaluation in the Global Classroom and School Inspection and Self evaluation - all published by Routledge and now in twelve European languages. All of these books derive from collaboration with schools, with teachers and school students, the Global Classroom book being written mainly by school students from eight different countries. Issues in School Improvement, a CD-rom resource for schools in Hong Kong, contains many of these self-evaluation tools in both English and Chinese while a recent addition to self evaluation and inspection Hong Kong is an interactive website illustrating good practice in Hong Kong special, primary and secondary schools.He has acted in a consultancy role to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), UNESCO and ILO (International Labour Organisation), the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Prince's Trust, the European Commission, the Scottish Executive, the Swiss Federal Government, the Varkey Group in Dubai (Emirates) and the Hong Kong Education Department. He was a member of the Government Task Force on Standards from 1997-2001 and was awarded the OBE for services to education in 1997 Klappentext `This is a zippy read arising out of the international project "effective leadership in a time of change", which grapples with the nature and practice of leadership (as opposed to management or administration) in schools' - Times Educational Supplement Zusammenfassung `This is a zippy read arising out of the international project "effective leadership in a time of change"! which grapples with the nature and practice of leadership (as opposed to management or administration) in schools' - Times Educational Supplement Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Chresten Kruchov, John MacBeath and Kathryn Riley Seven Selected Heresies of Leadership - John MacBeath Time For a Change - John MacBeath, Leif Moos and Kathryn Riley The School Leader¿s View - Jenny Reeves, Leif Moos and Joan Forrest What Teachers, Parents, Governors and Pupils Want from Their Heads - Leif Moos, Pat Mahony and Jenny Reeves Expectations of School Leaders - Neil Dempster and Lloyd Logan An Australian Picture Some Comparative Learnings from the Study - Leif Moos and Neil Dempster Who Really Runs the School? - Pat Mahony, John MacBeath and Leif Moos Ethical Challenges in School Leadership - Neil Dempster and Pat Mahony Effective Leaders and Effective Schools - Kathryn Riley and John MacBeath Developing Effective School Leaders - Jenny Reeves and Neil Dempster Postscript - Angus MacDonald ...
List of contents
Introduction - Chresten Kruchov, John MacBeath and Kathryn Riley
Seven Selected Heresies of Leadership - John MacBeath
Time For a Change - John MacBeath, Leif Moos and Kathryn Riley
The School Leader's View - Jenny Reeves, Leif Moos and Joan Forrest
What Teachers, Parents, Governors and Pupils Want from Their Heads - Leif Moos, Pat Mahony and Jenny Reeves
Expectations of School Leaders - Neil Dempster and Lloyd Logan
An Australian Picture
Some Comparative Learnings from the Study - Leif Moos and Neil Dempster
Who Really Runs the School? - Pat Mahony, John MacBeath and Leif Moos
Ethical Challenges in School Leadership - Neil Dempster and Pat Mahony
Effective Leaders and Effective Schools - Kathryn Riley and John MacBeath
Developing Effective School Leaders - Jenny Reeves and Neil Dempster
Postscript - Angus MacDonald
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`This is a zippy read arising out of the international project "effective leadership in a time of change", which grapples with the nature and practice of leadership (as opposed to management or administration) in schools' - Times Educational Supplement
