Education Game Changers: Leadership and the Consequence of Policy Paradox [Paperback]

Education Game Changers is written for an international readership. This book refers to all education levels and sectors and builds on research in educational leadership, education business, and organizational change. Karen E. Starr describes policy paradoxes challenging the sustainability of educational provision as we know it and the imperatives they present for educational leadership, business, and governance. This book critiques the paradoxical education policy context while exploring alternative futures they may spawn. It ponders both possibilities and pitfalls that cannot be ignored by instrumental players such as governments, policy-makers, educational leaders and business managers, researchers, and analysts. This book unveils rising cases of education business failures around the world, the paucity of governance and business skill on educational boards, and the irrational contradictions faced by governments in determining education policy.Karen E. Starr, PhD, is the Inaugural Chair, School Leadership and Development in the Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Australia. Prior to this she was a school principal for fifteen years in three different schools in South Australia and Victoria.

This, to my mind, is the most recent and relevant book on the challenges of educational leadership globally at the present time, possessing the invaluable ability to look at educational leadership from an outside business perspective, recognizing that business and education have much in common, but that they also have differences in values and approach. Whilst the book as a whole is very stimulating and readable, the examination of the paradoxes currently faced by educational leaders seems to me to be absolutely on the button. Mike Bottery, PhD, Deputy Dean Research and Professor of Educational Policy and Values, Centre for Educational Studies, University of Hull, UK

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