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Modernizing leadership through private participation: a marriage of inconvenience with public ethos?

What distinctive leadership changes does the private sector bring to the running of public sector educational services? This paper contributes to an understanding of the issues raised by this question by studying the senior management of a private company running services for an English local education authority. The paper explores evidence of modernizing leadership, as well as the extent to which a traditional public ethos is sustained or re‐interpreted within modernization. Analysis is based principally on interviews with senior management, but is also informed by the larger data set collected as part of the case study of this public‐private partnership. The paper suggests that modernizing leadership, as understood in terms of the dominant policy discourse, is not found in its pure form, but is modified by a continuing orientation to an older public ethos. A model is proposed—an adaptive public service model of leadership—which reflects the style of leadership forged by senior management. Issues, dangers, paradoxes, and contradictions inherent in the model and the practice it represents are highlighted. The model is not put forward as an ideal to follow, but as a means of highlighting the issues that arise where modernization and older ideals of public service encounter each other.     

Delivering an MBA Management Consulting Experience

This article reports on an innovative MBA elective consulting course that attempts to address how to better prepare inexperienced MBA students for a competitive job market. This article is a best practice paper designed to provide insights and encouragement to educators.     

Leading authentically at the cross-roads of culture and context

This article explores the difficulties Hong Kong school leaders face in leading authentically and suggests that a key to seeking this authenticity lies in ongoing learning in context. It is divided into three sections. The first section describes the crossroads of reform and culture in Hong Kong schools by illustrating the tension between traditional values and modern reform demands. It concludes that the environment within which Hong Kong leaders lead is best characterized by hybridity and that this makes becoming authentic both important and difficult. The second section asserts that being an authentic leader is not a matter of adopting a model, a series of actions or even a set of beliefs, but is about engaging in a continual learning process. Some of what we know about leadership learning is discussed, as is the importance of accounting for cultural variation when designing learning approaches. The third section outlines and describes a set of generic leadership learning gateways designed to guide the development of authenticity. These gateways underpin a new programme implemented in Hong Kong which consciously aims to allow principals to construct authenticity.

PUKHA: a new pedagogical experience

Society needs responsible leaders and entrepreneurs. CDIO (conceive, design, implement and operate) is a framework for engineering education based on outcomes, more than on contents, that has been adopted by a growing number of engineering educational institutions for producing the next generation of engineering leaders. In order to support engineering students to become entrepreneurs and to bear other concerns than merely technical on today's rapid changing world, the authors believe the CDIO syllabus needs to be improved, and therefore propose a pre requisite to a useful CDIO perspective: IdEF, standing for Identify, Evaluate and Formulate real problems and needs. Based on this concept, this paper describes a new pedagogical project framework (PUKHA - to project, to undertake, to know how to achieve). Within PUKHA projects, more than 300 students have trained and checked their will, risk, responsibility, communication, leadership and entrepreneurship over the last three years.     

Invisible barriers: the career progress of women secondary school principals in Greece

This paper examines the career progress of female principals in Greek secondary schools and the under‐representation of women in management positions. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with six women principals in Athens, the paper considers the factors affecting women's participation in school management. The findings demonstrate that women are greatly under‐represented in secondary school management positions. The main reasons for this disadvantage are personal factors, covert discrimination, gender stereotypes and constraints experienced through their socially defined roles.     

绩效导向的教育信息化评价模型的构建

教育信息化建设的根本目标在于支撑和引领教育改革与发展,从而带动教育现代化的实现。立足于教育信息化建设的总体目标和价值追求,开展以绩效为导向的教育信息化评价是促进教育信息化可持续发展的关键。针对教育信息化评价的系统复杂性这一现实难题,该研究依据绩效理论和元建模技术,通过模型架构设计、模型构建和语义扩展等过程,构建了绩效导向的教育信息化评价模型。该模型的特色与创新之处在于它借鉴“元”的思想将教育信息化评价系统抽象简化,通过语义扩展灵活应用于教育信息化关键领域的评价情境中,既体现了教育信息化建设的总体目标与价值追求,又将复杂的教育信息化评价工程转化为可操作性的实践过程,同时注重以绩效改进为导向,实现教育信息化的绩效提升和可持续发展。     

开源软件在教育信息化中的应用研究

阐述了OSS的现状及发展趋势,对其在教育信息化过程中的应用优势进行了分析,并对OSS的具体应用进行了实证研究,最后指出了OSS存在的一些问题。     

英国国家政府学院领导人才培训特色探析

英国国家政府学院是世界上著名的领导人才培训机构。该学院经过40年的发展变迁逐渐形成了鲜明的培训特色,即服务政府与市场化运作相结合;基于能力框架,分析和确定培训需求,设置培训课程;注重组织培训;强化培训的咨询职能;实施菜单式与定制式相结合的个性化培训;聚焦领导力开发,创新培训方式方法;加强国际合作,提升其国际影响力等。     

大规模学生评估的影响力与重要性：德国视角 大规模学生评估的影响力与重要性： 现状与趋势

二十年来,大规模学生评估对教育研究、学校体系和教育政策产生了深远影响。“国际中学生评估项目”（PISA）、“国际学生数学与科学能力动态项目”（TIMSS）和“国际学生阅读能力进步研究项目”（PIRLS）使各个国家学生成绩值具有一定可比性,由此,人们能更细致地从学校内部来观察不同国家学校工作的差异度。大规模学生评估还为学校发展、教育领导以及学生成绩的改进提供必要数据。本文以PIRLS为例,旨在从德国视角为中国今后开展大规模国际学生评估提供借鉴。