| School Leadership and Administration: Adopting a Cultural Perspective Contributor(s): Walker, Allan (Author), Dimmock, Clive (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415932939 ISBN-13: 9780415932936 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2002 Annotation: Globalization has enabled educational theory, policy, and practice to cross national boundaries with unprecedented ease, thus encouraging administrators around the world to share strategies and methods. Yet scholarly accounts of globalization often fail to recognize the importance of the indigenous cultures that interact with and mediate globalizing forces. Allan Walker and Clive Dimmock argue that a consideration of local culture is vital to any understanding of educational leadership, administration, and organization. In keeping with this demand, the essays collected in "School Leadership and Administration" highlight sociocultural influences upon schooling in East and Southeast Asia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and beyond. Taken together, these studies develop a cross-cultural approach to school administration, and provide a needed comparative dimension to the field. While much scholarship within international education has worked to establish paradigms for school structure and organization, this collection pays overdue attention to the contexts within which these models are interpreted and used. In this way, "School Leadership and Administration" constitutes the first foray into the uncharted terrain of comparative educational administration and leadership. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Leadership - Education | Administration - General - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 371.2 |
| LCCN: 2002017899 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.2" W x 9.46" (1.26 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This text calls for a broader approach to comparative educational administration: one which uses culture as the principle means of analysis. The articles collected by Allan Walker and Clive Dimmock detail the educational practices and outcomes of other systems while taking into account the mediating influence of culture. In this way, these essays stress the specific aspects of the cultures studied, and map out common ground for the study of administrators' values, beliefs, and actions. |