International Journal of Educational Management: Volume 9 Issue 5

Business and management studies in higher education:: the challenge of academic legitimacy

Bruce Macfarlane

Critics argue that the core values of higher education, includingacademic freedom and intellectual detachment, conflict with the moreprosaic aims and ethos of business and…

Management education in Hong Kong: needs and challenges

Irene Hau‐Siu Chow

Examines Hong Kong′s current requirements in terms of managementtraining and development against the various challenges to be met inproviding for those needs. Much of the…

Teachers as managers: an exploration into teaching styles

Farhad Analoui

Teachers at all levels are also managers, some trained others not,yet they are expected to manage the most difficult and arguably the mostdemanding of professions – teaching. The…

Promoting reflective practice in initial teacher training

Anne Moran, John Dallat

Sets out to examine five school‐based initial teacher trainingschemes and to assess the most successful aspects of each. Aims inparticular to investigate the ways in which student…

Environmental scanning and the information‐gathering behaviour of headteachers

George Holmes, Gerard McElwee, Rhodri Thomas

Headteachers are increasingly required to be managerially focusedand operate in an uncertain environment. Argues that they are morelikely to be effective if they have access to…

Constraints on the effectiveness of schools and their principals

Donna M. Smith, Edward A. Holdaway

Explores the perceptions of junior high‐school principals aboutconstraints on their leadership effectiveness and the overalleffectiveness of their schools. Data were collected in…