Organizing Public Education

Howard Stevenson is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publication Activities, and the Vice Provost for Harvard University Planning and Resources. A member and former chair of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, he has served as the School’s Senior Associate Dean and Director of External Relations, chair of the Latin American Faculty Advisory Group, Senior Associate Dean and Director of Financial and Information Systems, and faculty chair of Executive Education’s Owner/President Manager (OPM) Program. Professor Stevenson’s research focuses on the life patterns that create enduring success, entrepreneurship and predictability. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 case studies, numerous articles, and nine books—including Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life (with L. Nash) and, Make Your Own Luck: 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business (with E. Shapiro). He has created several successful companies. Currently he is a director of Camp Dresser & McKee and Landmark Communications. He is a director of National Public Radio, a Trustee of the Massachusetts chapter of The Nature Conservancy, Mt. Auburn Hospital, and Trustee Emeritus of The Boston Ballet. He served as Director and President of The Sudbury Valley Trustees.

• VOLUME ONE: ORGANIZING EDUCATIONAL POLICYThe Global Challenge - M. BotteryGlobalization and Its Impact on Education with Specific Reference to Education in South Africa - K.C. Moloi, S.J. Gravett and N.F. PetersonGender Inequality and Education - Jill Blackmore Changing Local/Global Relations in a ′Post-Colonial′ World and Implications for Feminist ResearchThe Elusive Goal of Nation-Building - Yeow Tong ChiaAsian/Confucian Values and Citizenship Education in Singapore during the 1980s C Chris Gifford et alPost-National Citizenship and Higher Education in the European Union C L.C. Chiang Trading on the West′s StrengthThe Dilemmas of Transnational Higher Education in East AsiaNeo-Liberalism, Higher Education and the Knowledge Economy - Mark Olssen and Michael Peters From the Free Market to Knowledge CapitalismThe State, Privatization and Educational Policy - C. TorresA Critique of Neo-Liberalism in Latin America and Some Ethical and Political ImplicationsDoing Things the ′Right′ Way - Michael Apple Legitimating Educational Inequalities in Conservative TimesEducation - Gerald Grace and Martin ThruppCommodity or Public Good? 20 Years onTransformative Pedagogy, Leadership and School Organization for the 21st Century Knowledge-Based Economy - Clive Dimmock and Jonathan Goh The Case of SingaporeBuilding Social Capital in Professional Learning Communities - Bill MulfordImportance, Challenges and a Way forwardMaking Education Reform Happen - Philip Hallinger Is There an ′Asian′ Way? Educational Reform - Eric Hoyle and Mike WallaceAn Ironic Perspective20 Years of Progress? English Education Policy 1988 to the Present - Geoff Whitty Strategic Planning and School Management - Les Bell Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing? Distributed Leadership - Andy Hargreaves and Dean FinkDemocracy or Delivery? VOLUME TWO: ORGANIZING THE GOVERNANCE OF EDUCATIONSlouching towards Decentralization - M. Fernanda Astiz, Alexander Wiseman and David BakerConsequences of Globalization for Curricular Control in National Education SystemsEducation Decentralization and Accountability Relationships in Latin America - Emanuela di GropelloPersistent Preoccupations - Ron Glatter The Rise and Rise of School Autonomy and Accountability in EnglandEducational Decentralization in Three Asian Societies - Esther Sui-chu HoJapan, Korea and Hong KongPrivatizing Education, Privatizing Education Policy, Privatizing Educational Research - Stephen Ball Network Governance and the ′Competition State′Privatization Reform and Inequality of Educational Opportunity - Florencia TorcheThe Case of ChileManagement Ideology - Rosemary Deem and Kevin BrehonyThe Case of New Managerialism in Higher EducationTransnational Higher Education and Challenges for University Governance in China - Kok Chung Ong and David ChanBureaucratic, Corporate/Market and Network Governance - Jill BlackmoreShifting Spaces for Gender Equity in EducationThe Changing Governance of Education - Stewart Ranson School Governing Bodies in South African Schools - Jan HeystekUnder Pressure to Enhance Democratization and Improve QualityThe New Enterprise Logic of the Academy Programme - Brian CaldwellJoining up the Dots - Ron Glatter Academies and System CoherenceRace, Charter Schools and Conscious Capitalism - Kristen Buras On the Spatial Politics of Whiteness as Property (and the Unconscionable Assault on Black New Orleans)Improving Schools and Raising Standards - Pam SammonsThe Impact of Standards-Based Educational Reforms in England Governing Education through Data in England - Jenny OzgaFrom Regulation to Self-EvaluationVOLUME THREE: ORGANIZING EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENTEducational Management - Tony Bush Theory and PracticeDeveloping Comparative and International Educational Leadership and Management - Clive Dimmock and Allan WalkerA Cross-Cultural ModelLeading Organizational Culture - Jacky Lumby Issues of Power and EquityTowards the Third-Wave School Leadership - Yin Cheng Leading with a Moral Purpose - Paul BegleyThe Place of EthicsPower, Risk and Utility - Jacky Lumby and Nick Foskett Interpreting the Landscape of Culture in Educational LeadershipLeadership as a Subversive Activity - John MacBeath Educational Leadership - Saeeda Shah An Islamic PerspectiveThe Principalship in Developing Countries - Izhar Oplatka Context, Characteristics and RealityPrincipled Principals? Values-Driven Leadership: Evidence from 10 Case Studies of ′Outstanding′ School Leaders - Anne Gold et al Meeting the Challenges of Cultural Leadership - Philip HallingerThe Changing Role of Principals in ThailandCulture, Societal Culture and School Leadership - Peter Ribbins and Junhua Zhang A Study of Selected Head Teachers in Rural ChinaPassionate Rationalism - Gabriele Lakomski and Colin EversThe Role of Emotion in Decision-MakingSchool Leaders′ Influences on Student Learning - Kenneth Leithwood et alThe Four PathsDesigner Leadership - Peter Gronn The Emerging Global Adoption of Preparation StandardsLearning to Be Political - Gary Crow and Dick WeindlingNew English Head Teachers′ RolesDistributed Leadership - James SpillaneThe Tyranny of Bureaucracy - Tanya Fitzgerald Continuing Challenges of Leading and Managing from the MiddleDistributed Leadership in Higher Education - Richard Bolden, Georgy Petrov and Jonathan GoslingRhetoric and RealityA Case Study in Leading Schools for Social Justice - Howard Stevenson When Morals and Markets CollideVOLUME FOUR: ORGANIZING PERFORMANCE, PROFESSIONALISM AND PEDAGOGYLearning-Centred Leadership - Geoff SouthworthConstructivist Leadership - Linda Lambert Teachers as Leaders in a Knowledge Society - Dorothy Andrews and Frank Crowther Encouraging Signs of a New ProfessionalismReflections on the NCSL from an Historical Perspective - Ray Bolam Policy and Workforce Reform in England - Helen GunterTeacher Incentives and Performance - Rosalind Leva?i? An Application of Principal-Agent TheoryPerformativity and Identity - Jacky Lumby Mechanisms of ExclusionThe Teacher′s Soul and the Terrors of Performativity - Stephen Ball What′s so Important about Teachers′ Working Conditions? The Fatal Flaw in North American Educational Reform - Nina Bascia and Cindy RottmannCommitted for Life? Variations in Teachers′ Work, Lives and Effectiveness - Christopher DayRestructuring Teachers′ Work and Trade Union Responses in England - Howard StevensonBargaining for Change? ′Collaborative′ and ′Democratic′ Professionalisms - Geoff Whitty and Emma Wisby Alternatives to ′Traditional′ and ′Managerialist′ Approaches to Teacher Autonomy? Teacher Professionalism and Continuing Professional Development - Les Bell and Ray Bolam Contested Concepts and Their Implications for School LeadersSustainable Professional Learning Communities - Andy HargreavesDusting off the Phoenix - Valerie HallGender and Educational Management Revisited ′Zealotry or Nostalgic Regret′? Women Leaders in Technical and Further Education in Australia: Agents of Change, Entrepreneurial Educators or Corporate Citizens - Jill Blackmore and Judyth Sachs Contesting the Orthodoxy of Teacher Leadership - Tanya Fitzgerald and Helen GunterAcademic housework? Women Professors at the University of New Zealand 1911-1961 - Tanya Fitzgerald Creating a School Environment for the Effective Management of Cultural Diversity - B.R. Grobler et al