Part 1: Overview 1. The management of schools: theory and practice Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives 2. Organization theory and the management of schools 3. Politics, power and the management of schools Part 3: Managerial Tasks in Schools 4. Achieving effective schools 5. The management of change 6. The management of school improvement 7. School self review 8. Instructional management 9. Staff appraisal Part 4: Selected Management 10. Coping with unionized staff in the comprehensive school: a framework for analysis 11. The selection and appointment of heads 12. Linking school and community: some management issues 13. School management and administration: an analysis by gender 14. The school and occupational stress 15. School management and nation building in a newly independent state Part 5: Management Training 16. Recent trends in management training for head teachers: a European perspective 17. Can educational management learn from industry? 18. Training for school management in the Third World: patterns and problems of provision 19. The National Development Centre for School Management Training 20. Interstudie SO: school management development in the Netherlands 21. The National Institute of Educational Management, Malaysia Part 6: Reflections 22. From leadership training to educational development: IMTEC as an international experience 23. lIP 66: source of an operating manual for educational administration on spaceship earth? Part 7: Bibliography and Biographical Notes