Academic Leadership

This book provides contemporary knowledge on school effectiveness and proposes strategic interventions for enhancing it. It focuses on improving academic leadership for enhancing the effectiveness of schools and discusses how national education policies are helpful in providing a vision towards improving school effectiveness.

Autorentext

Marmar Mukhopadhyay is Chairman of Educational Technology and Management Academy, Gurgaon, India. He represents a unique blend of experience in educational management as a researcher, trainer, institution builder, and author spread over more than four decades. He completed twenty research and consultancy assignments commissioned by agencies like UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, USAID, British Council, COL, etc. Marmar has trained a few thousand Heads of academic institutions from India and more than fifty other countries. He has served in academic leadership positions (as a Head) in two major Indian national institutions, and in international organizations like ICDE and IMAGE. Three of his notable publications include Total Quality Management in Education, Quality Management in Higher Education and Leadership for Institution Building in Education.

Inhalt

Foreword by Prof Vinayagum Chinapah. Preface. **1: School Effectiveness: An Introduction. 2: Understanding Academic Leadership. 3: Discovering the Leader in You 4: School-based Educational Policy Implementation Model (SEPIM) 5: Understanding School as an Organisation 6: Developing School as a Learning Organization 7: Leading Professional Learning 8: Nurturing and Leading the Leaders 9: Resource Planning and Management 10: Networking for Organizational Learning 11: Reorienting Administrative Management for School Effectiveness 12: Student Services and Parental Involvement for School Effectiveness 13: School Effectiveness Audit 14**: Towards Quality Culture and Graduation in Leadership