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Educational Leadership: Policy Dimensions in the 21st Centuryreviewed by Jane Clark Lindle - 2002 Title: Educational Leadership: Policy Dimensions in the 21st Century Author(s): Bruce Anthony Jones (Editor) Publisher: ABLEX Publishing Company, Westport, CT ISBN: 1567504892, Pages: 176, Year: 2000 Search for book at Amazon.com Projecting the future is an ambitious task because of limits on
extrapolations from current trends. In fact, business and
government planning has reduced its scope from five-years or more
to one-year or even six-month plans (e.g. Dixit & Nalebuff,
1991).
Given such constraints, Bruce Anthony Jones, who writes with
colleagues from the National Policy Board for Educational
Administration’s Policy Circle, has edited a volume that
tackles two slippery aspects of 21st century educational
policy, (1) educational leadership and (2) the dimensions of future
policy itself. In doing so, Jones and his colleagues have
contributed to the body of school leadership analyses that starts
with Tyack and Hansot’s (1982) Managers of Virtue,
proceeds through the 1980s "tidal" years for "bully pulpit"
education reforms (Bacharach, 1990; Griffiths, Stout, &
Forsyth, 1988; Hannaway & Crowson, 1989; Jacobson & Conway,
1990), and continues into the 1990s standards and accountability
movement (Murphy, 1992; Murphy & Louis, 1999; Tucker &
Codding, 1998). The question is: Does this volume project new
directions for policy on school... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Jane Lindle
University of Kentucky E-mail Author Jane Clark Lindle, Ph.D., is Professor of Administration & Supervision in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky. She is Co-Director of the University of Kentucky/University of Louisville Joint Center for the Study of Educational Policy and Director of Graduate Studies for her department. Professor Lindle focuses her research on micropolitical processes affecting school policy implementation. Recently Professor Lindle spent a year as a public middle school principal serving UK’s land-grant mission as a scholar-practitioner.
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