Understanding decision-making in educational contexts : a case study approach

'Understanding Decision-Making in Educational Contexts' presents 'problem cases' confronting school leaders in real settings, and illustrates the multiple approaches that school leaders draw upon to navigate complex and challenging decision-making contexts. Although school leader...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Chitpin, Stephanie (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
SeriesTransforming education through critical leadership, policy and practice
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781800718197
DOI10.1108/9781800718173
Physical Description1 online resource (240 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Part I
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. What is decision-making?
  • Chapter 3. Educational leadership in performative times: high stakes testing in England
  • Chapter 4. Opportunities and challenges in leadership
  • Chapter 5. Great expectations: the achievement gap in English schools
  • Part II
  • Chapter 6. Inside an Ivy League High School: The problem of promise, passion and pain
  • Chapter 7. License revocation of teachers
  • Chapter 8. Attendance policy in action
  • Chapter 9. A tale of two learning theories
  • Chapter 10. Rights and freedoms educational standardization in the UK
  • Chapter 11. The nature of decision-making in school leadership: an epilogue.