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 | | Fundamental Concepts of Educational Leadership (2nd Edition) by Taher A. Razik, Austin D. Swanson ISBN-10: 9780130144911 ISBN-10: 0-13-014491-6 ISBN-13: 9780130144911 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-014491-1 Paperback 2000-07-31 Prentice Hall Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This comprehensive book introduces readers to the general principles of leadership and management as they apply to educational institutions. Written from a systems perspective, it offers the broadest treatment of educational leadership available in a single volume. Major topics discuss systems thinking, leadership contexts, leadership from reform, schools as learning organizations, communication and human interaction, generation and use of information in a learning organization, inquiry, evaluation, strategy formation and implementation, allocation of resources, the impact of technological advances, decision making and change, and leaders for the new millennium. For educational administrators and practitioners. | ||
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Painful to read! I had to read this book for an educational leadership class. It is, without a doubt, the most tedious, boring, useless textbook I have ever had the displeasure of plodding my way through. The writing is awful. The author has the incredible ability to take a concept about educational leadership that can be explained in just a paragraph and turn it into unnecessarily verbose, sleep-inducing pages. I somehow made my way through the book but it was truly painful to read. I found myself flipping to the end of each section several times to see where it would end. There are interesting topics but the author makes them very hard to understand with his paragraphs that go on forever, useless, irrelevant charts and graphs, and sentences that never seem to end. If you are a professor of educational leadership, please do your students a big favor and find another book to use. They would prefer one that is readable, I'm sure. If you are a student who is required to read this, good luck! I hope you find it a less painful, boring experience than I did. | ||