The New Management and Governance of Education

Transformational Leadership within Secondary Schools in England. A Panacea for Organizational Ills?

“…For example, outside the school, principals find it difficult to engage parents in decision-making in contexts where schools draw pupils from socially deprived catchment areas. This supports findings in a study carried out during a previous era of New Public Management 1993-96, which discussed such difficulties (Ranson et al 1999). For others inside the school, such as deputy and assistant principals, roles are shaped by historical antecedents that position them as managers of pastoral care or of the curriculum and the operational demands of these render them unable, even if they were willing, to enact leadership.…”

Networking in comparative context

“…Those in Europe have, if anything, pressed the issue even more (Klijn 1996;Kickert et al 1997;Bogason and Toonen 1998;European Commission 2001), with particular emphasis on international governance and the emerging European Union (for instance Kohler-Koch and Eising 1999;Pierre and Peters 2000;Nicolaidis and Howse 2001). In the UK a burgeoning literature based on collaboration and partnership has developed (Lowndes and Skelcher 1998;Clapham et al 2000;Ranson et al 1999;Stoker 1999;Sullivan and Skelcher 2002;Lowndes and Sullivan 2004), predominately focused on networks rather than networking or network behaviour (see Walker et al in press, for a critique).…”

Modernising governance: The impact on policy and research communities in the United Kingdom

“…Under the Conservatives in the 1980s and early 1990s, the social democratic settlement of the post-war era was replaced with a neoliberal consumer democracy (Ranson et al, 1999). Increasing public choice was central to the various educational reforms introduced which effectively restructured power and responsibility in education.…”