Full Description
First published in 1974. Graham Balfour, in a lecture delivered in February 1921, first drew attention to the growing importance of the elementary school manager in the system of educational administration during the period with which this study is concerned: "Local administrators of education, other than trustees a hundred years ago, there were none. Indeed it is very curious how imperceptibly that important figure of the latter half of the nineteenth century, the School Manager, steals into existence. This volume is a study in the management of education from 1800 to 1902.
Contents
Introduction 1 THE VOLUNTARY SCHOOL MANAGER—The Composition of the Managing Body Motives for management—Trustees and managers—Vicar as sole manager—Subscribers—Collection of subscriptions—Officers of committee—Meetings of committees—Functions of managers 2 THE VOLUNTARY SCHOOL MANAGER His Functions and Relationships with Others Managers and teachers—Appointment of teachers—Dismissal of teachers—The school mistress—Landowners and clergy—Agents —Individual owners/managers—The influence of the Education Department: transfer of schools—Managers and H.M. Inspectors 3 SCHOOL BOARD ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT Before 1870—School board administration from 1870—Election and dissolution of boards—Town councils and school boards—School boards and voluntary school managers—Non-cooperation between school managers—Rural school boards—Financial constraints 4 THE OPERATION OF LOCAL MANAGEMENT UNDER THE SCHOOL BOARDS Organization of local management—The activities of local managers—School board clerk—Local inspectors—The School Board for London—Appointment of teachers—Later developments—Qualifications of managers 5 ISSUES AFFECTING THE APPOINTMENT OF SCHOOL MANAGERS 6 INNOVATION IN ADMINISTRATION: THE VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS ASSOCIATIONS Governing bodies and the work of the voluntary schools associations—Area—Powers and duties—Organizing master—Subscriptions and the Voluntary Schools Act 7 THE 1902 ACT AND THE RECASTING OF MANAGEMENT The Billesdon National School affair—Later stages of the Bill—The acceptance of the Kenyon-Slaney amendment—Foundation managers—The working of the Act 8 CONCLUSION
