Full Description
Understanding Decision-Making in Educational Contexts presents 'problem cases' confronting school leaders in real settings, and illustrates the multiple approaches that school leaders draw upon to navigate complex and challenging decision-making contexts. Although school leaders draw upon knowledge and instruments that are available to them, the approach used for this volume is decidedly Popperian in nature.
In this collection, each chapter presents a case study problem, a discussion of the salient concepts and principles of the case, an exploration of problem formulation, and concludes with a decision analysis using a Popperian approach to problem solving. Each chapter concludes with lessons learned and the expected decision-making skills acquired from the critical analysis of each educational challenge using the Objective Knowledge Growth Framework, a Popperian decision-making approach.
This book is essential reading for anyone who aspires to take on a leadership role in a school setting, or is curious to develop their understanding of leadership problems.
Contents
PART I Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. What is Decision-Making?
Chapter 3. Educational Leadership in Performative Times: High Stakes Testing in England
Chapter 4. Opportunities and Challenges in Leadership
Chapter 5. Great Expectations: The Achievement Gap in English Schools
PART II
Chapter 6. Inside an Ivy League High School: The Problem of Promise, Passion and Pain
Chapter 7. License Revocation of Teachers
Chapter 8. Attendance Policy in Action
Chapter 9. A Tale of Two Learning Theories
Chapter 10. Rights and Freedoms Educational Standardization in the UK
Chapter 11. The Nature of Decision-Making in School Leadership: An Epilogue
