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This book explores the limits to rational management. The authors develop the idea of organizational irony as a central concept for analyzing and explaining management activity in a managerialist environment. Drawing on international research as well as their own extensive experience in educational organizations, the authors show that effectiveness is not necessarily the result of over-rationalistic approaches to educational management. Focusing on school leadership and management, authors Eric Hoyle and Mike Wallace suggest that major reforms have had limited success because the changes introduced have diverted school staff from their core task of promoting student learning. The result is dissatisfaction, frustration, and stress. The authors use the ironic perspective to show how practitioners respond by mediating the reforms.
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Educational Leadership: Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism
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Author details Eric Hoyle is Emeritus Professor and Senior Fellow in the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol. His major interests are in organization theory, the professions and professional development. He is author of The Politics of School Management and (with Peter John) Professional Knowledge and Professional Practice. Mike Wallace is a Professor of Education in the Department of Education, University of Bath. His research interest is in the management of change in education and other public services. He is author (with Keith Pocklington) of Managing Complex Educational Change and editor (with Louise Poulson) of the teaching text Learning to Read Critically in Educational Leadership and Management.
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Education Leadership: Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism
Eric Hoyle and Mike Wallace
Sage Publications London · Thousand Oaks · New Delhi
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© Eric Hoyle and Mike Wallace 2005 First published 2005 Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form, or by any means, only with prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with terms of licenses issued by the Copyright Licensing agency. Enquires concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd I Oliver’s Yard 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP SAGE Publications Inc. 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd B-42, Panchsheel Enclave Post Box 4109 New Delhi 110 017 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-7619-6742-7 (cased) ISBN 0-7619-6743-5 (paperback) Library of Congress Control Number: 2005904555 Typeset by Pantek Arts Ltd, Maidstone, Kent Printed on paper from sustainable resources Printed by Gopsons Papers Ltd, India
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Contents
List of tables Preface Acknowledgements
vi vii xii
Part One The Nature of Irony
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Chapter 1 Introducing the ironic perspective Chapter 2 Endemic ambiguities: the preconditions of irony Chapter 3 The ambiguities of policy implementation
1 21 49
Part Two Irony and Managerialism
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Chapter 4 From management to managerialism Chapter 5 A solution in search of a problem
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Part Three The Rhetoric of Managerialism and Leadership
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Chapter 6 The myth of transformation Chapter 7 Transmissional leadership for p