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Managing Effective Relationships in Education



March 2012 | 224 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
'This is an important book and essential reading for all leaders in education. Carol Cardno expertly shows how effectiveness can be enhanced when complex problems are openly, collaboratively and trustingly resolved. This book offers a refreshing insight into the complexities of being a leader and exercising effective leadership in modernised organisations'

-Professor Tanya Fitzgerald, La Trobe University, Melbourne

Combining a theoretical and a practical approach, this book provides a guide to educational administration, management and leadership across sectors. The author focuses on two particular topics: organisational learning and dilemma management. More specifically, the author looks at how to bring about productive relationships in order to solve complex problems.

By drawing attention to particular sets of theory and practice, Cardno presents seminal and recent research that can be applied to practice in an original way. The author demonstrates that effectiveness is enhanced when complex problems are resolved collaboratively and trustingly. Productive relationships are shown to rely on openness and dialogue.

This book will stimulate and support practising and aspiring educational leaders at all levels and in all types of educational organisations. Students, practitioners and researchers in the early childhood, school and tertiary sectors will find this book to be indispensable.

Dr Carol Cardno is Professor of Educational Management and until recently was Head of the School of Education at Unitec Institute of Technology. She has held several school management positions and was principal of Waitakere College before establishing an Educational Management Centre at Unitec in 1991.

 
Introduction
 
Concepts of Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
 
The Leadership of Teaching and Learning
 
Organisational Learning in a Learning Organisation
 
Managing Dilemmas through Productive Dialogue
 
Managing and Developing Professional Performance
 
Managing Decision-Making Collaboratively
 
Productive Teamwork
 
Strategic Leadership and Management

'This is an important book and essential reading for all leaders in education. It skilfully weaves together theory and practice and presents a demanding curriculum for leadership learning. Drawing on her own extensive work as an educational professional and leading academic, Carol Cardno expertly shows how effectiveness can be enhanced when complex problems are openly, collaboratively and trustingly resolved. This book offers a refreshing insight into the complexities of being a leader and exercising effective leadership in modernised organisations' -

Professor Tanya Fitzgerald, La Trobe University, Melbourne


'Arguing that theory is demanding, but essential, in resolving the most complex of problems, the author writes an essential book for all leaders in education...An englightening and empowering read, well worth the effort'
-Martine Horvath, Early Years Eductor

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Chapter 1


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