Description: This book is a unique resource which combines a teaching text with exemplary reports of small-scale research and a literature review conducted by international scholars. Part One gives the reader a framework for the critical analysis of any text and explains how to incorporate it into a literature review for a course assignment, dissertation or thesis. Part Two presents accounts of leading-edge research, offering the reader insights into important issues in the field of educational leadership, management and administration. The reader is invited to practise literature review skills by applying the critical analysis questions to each research report. Part Three is an exemplary critical literature review. It shows how a high quality literature review may be constructed and addresses a key issue in the field.
Brief description:
Mike Wallace is a Professor of Public Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. From 2009 to 2012 he was the Economic and Social Research Council's Strategic Adviser for Researcher Development. His research on managing change in the public services is reported in many books and academic journals. He is co-author, with Eric Hoyle, of the book Educational Leadership: Ambiguity, Professionals, and Managerialism (Sage, 2005), lead editor, with Michael Fertig and Eugene Schneller, of the book Managing Change in the Public Services (Blackwell, 2007), and lead co-author, with Michael Reed, Dermot O′Reilly, Jonathan Morris, Michael Tomlinson and Rosemary Deem, of the book Developing Public Service Leaders: Elite Orchestration, Change Agency, Leaderism, and Neoliberalization (Oxford University Press, 2023). His contribution to teaching at Cardiff centres on the design of postgraduate research programmes incorporating research methods training.
Review Quotes: This was an interesting book and in many ways I did like it. At the moment though I will not be adopting the book
--Mrs Mia Forss "drupal" (10/14/2009 12:00:00 AM)