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Managing and Leading Schools as Learning Organizations
by John Heywood
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20th March, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-906018-88-7
Price: €25
In the last thirty years policy makers world-wide have demanded greater accountability from schools and in some cases micromanagement has led to the deprofessionalization of teaching.
Management systems have been put in place and demands for leadership from principals and teachers have been made. This text considers the problems that individuals and organizations have as they interact and respond to continuing pressures for change. It is placed in the contexts of the obligations that professionals have to create schools as organizations for learning, as places for reflection and inquiry, and as creators of education’s future.
About the Author
John Heywood is a Professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin and formerly Professor and Head of the Department of Teacher Education in the University. Before coming to Ireland he lectured in management subjects in the Engineering Faculty of the University of Liverpool.
His current interests are in education for the professions particularly teaching, engineering and management. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management. He was for many years a member of the Secondary Teacher Registration Council. In 2005 he received the annual award for the outstanding research publication from the Division for the Professions of the American Educational Research Association.
In 2007 he was elected to the Academy of Fellows of the American Society for Engineering Education, and in 2008 was named a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Foundation of the Rotary International.
He has for many years championed the cause of teacher leadership and management.
