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The switch from teaching to learning, competence-based teaching, and new public management are calling for changes to be made to the way that activities are coordinated at universities. Educational governance can help to meet these requirements, but additional, competence- and student-oriented perspectives are required. This volume thus provides a theoretical basis for implementing the necessary changes in university management. Die Hochschulwelt befindet sich im Umbruch. Gesellschaftliche Veränderungen wie Individualisierung, Globalisierung und Mobilität, der "Shift from Teaching to Learning", die Hinwendung zur kompetenzorientierten Lehre sowie die Entwicklung der Hochschulorganisation und -verwaltung zu mehr Autonomie, Effektivität und Effizienz ("New Public Management") erfordern eine Weiterentwicklung der Handlungskoordination. Als eine mögliche Antwort der Hochschulgestaltenden zur Umsetzung der kompetenzorientierten Lehre ist die Studierendenorientierung zu sehen. Diese Entwicklung lässt sich aus der Perspektive der "Educational Governance" beschreiben. Die Dimensionen umfassen Instrumente und Kompetenzbeschreibungen der beteiligten Akteurinnen und Akteure, müssen jedoch um die Dimensionen der kompetenzorientierten Lehre und der Studierendenorientierung erweitert werden, will man dem Auftrag für Bildungsinstitutionen gerecht werden. Mit der vorliegenden Analyse wird eine theoretisch fundierte Basis für die notwendigen Veränderungsprozesse der Hochschulsteuerung geschaffen. Die Veränderungsdimensionen werden durch Fallanalysen anschaulich darlegt und zeigen - nicht nur für Hochschulen - übertragbare Ansätze zur Erreichung einer studierendenorientierten Hochschule.

School management and organization.

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Restructuring is an international phenomenon, and great stress is placed on the role of the innovative principal in the process. This book offers insights into the ways in which six principals go about leading the change process in their schools, and looks for ways of understanding why and how principals behave and think in the way they do. Its edited topical life history approach identifies key events, experiences and significant others in the lives of the case study managers, and shows how these have shaped the way they implement changes to curriculum, teaching and learning in their schools.

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Educational change --- School management and organization --- Planning.

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Class size. --- School management and organization.

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The argumentative point of departure of this scholarly book is the common conviction of specialists in the field of education in South Africa that the national education system is not at a satisfactory level - in both the academic and the public discourse. Such allegations are made and, frequently, stronger adjectives than 'non-satisfactory' are used. Results of international test series in which South Africa has participated, such as the 2015 TIMSS tests, confirm the negative verdicts found in the (public and scholarly) discourse. This book aims to argue that although the lack of performance could be attributed to a multiplicity of factors, one factor that can make a difference in the achievement levels obtained by learners in schools is leadership. The book demonstrates that a particular problem of both the scholarly and the public discourse on education in South Africa is an overtone of defeatism or resignation, blaming all ills in the education system and educational institutions on historical legacies and/or contextual factors (such as socio-economic deprivation in the catchment areas of schools) or poor resources and infrastructure. This collected work was inspired by a recently published spate of articles on top-performing schools (including top-performing schools in rural communities), in which it was demonstrated that good leadership can overcome such contextual and other challenges. The book unpacks the issue of leadership in South African schools from a variety of perspectives, thus contributing to the development of the scholarly discourse on Educational Leadership in South Africa. The target audience of the book is scholars of Educational Leadership. The research reported in the chapters draw on a wide range of methodologies, including empirical (survey) research (questionnaires and interviews), critical literature surveys, and the comparative method.

Educational leadership --- School management and organization