The book focuses on leadership and management perspectives using a competency and knowledge approach. It provides a clear framework which enables school leaders to develop and reflect upon their own skills. This book includes key chapters on: understanding leadership and management competencies reengineering, future thinking and strategic planning leadership and effective team skills marketing, finance and information systems managing change and quality Among the contributors are Brian Caldwell and John West-Burnham. Contributors Co-editors Brent Davies, Professor and Director of the International Educational Leadership and Management Centre at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside; Linda Ellis

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction Section A Chapter 2 Rethinking the educational context - a reengineering approach Chapter 3 Reconceptualising the nature of self-managing schools Reassessing leadership and management competencies: Chapter 4 Understanding competence and competency Chapter 5 Determining and developing competencies in schools Chapter 6 Establishing a development framework for this book Section B Developing a broad strategic perspective Chapter 8 Managing change Chapter 9 Leading and managing for quality Core Leadership and management functions: Chapter 10 Reflections on leadership in self-managing schools Chapter 11 Leading and managing staff for high performance Chapter 12 Managing learning and teaching Facilitating the leadership and management process Chapter 13 Managing school finance Chapter 14 Marketing school: strategic perspectives Chapter 15 Information management Section C Envisaging the Future: Chapter 16 Global educational trends and the expectations for the further reform of schools Chapter 17 Thinking in time: a gestalt for schools of the new millennium Index Contributors