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The use of headteachers' time: Leading professional or chief executive?
J. Laws,W.F. Dennison +1 more
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This article is published in Education 3-13.The article was published on 1991-06-01. It has received 11 citations till now.read more
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The Changing Role of the Primary-school Headteacher:
Rosemary Webb,Graham Vulliamy +1 more
TL;DR: Webb and Vulliamy as mentioned in this paper report on a study of 50 primary schools in England and Wales which sought to examine views of the changing role of the contemporary primary-school headteacher.
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Educational Management: An Agenda for the 1990s
TL;DR: Les Bell of the University of Warwick as discussed by the authors identifies the contemporary issues which could and should concern those in educational management who consider themselves as scholars and those who might think of themselves as practitioners.
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Preparation for Headship? The Role of the Deputy Head in the Primary School.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe some follow-up work to two city-wide surveys investigating the role of the deputy head in the primary school and address the implications for future training for deputies as preparation for headship.
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The Changing Role of the Primary School Head Reflections from the Front Line
TL;DR: The role of the primary school headteacher has undergone significant changes since the Education Reform Act (1988) as mentioned in this paper, and it is clear that there is now a much greater emphasis on the formal dimensions of management.
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The nature of managerial work
TL;DR: The Manager's Working Roles: A Survey of the Managerial Work of Five Chief Executives as discussed by the authors is a survey of the work of five chief executives in the 1990s.
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The work activity of school principals: an observational study
TL;DR: This article reported on continuous observations of the principals of a State High School, an Independent College and a Catholic College in Melbourne, Australia, for three weeks each, and found that the content and characteristics of their work were described in a set of propositions about the principalship.
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Neo-Taylorism in Educational Administration?:
TL;DR: The authors discusses a number of recent observational studies of school administrators' work patterns, and criticizes the inadequacy of the Tayloristic "time and motion" assumptions exhibited in their discourse.
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The State of the Art of School Administration: a review of facts and theory
TL;DR: The art of school administration and the state of the art are discussed in this article, with a focus on the art of action in the school, which is seen as an organization of different worlds or cultures, highlighting the theme of organizational looseness.