Managing the Secondary School in the 1990s: A New View of Headship

Abstract

Headship is widely acknowledged to be a crucial variable in determining the nature and quality of schools. As might be expected, there are numerous studies of headship. In this article Peter Ribbins, Reader in Educational Management at the University of Birmingham, and Brian Sherratt, Head of Great Barr Comprehensive School in Birmingham, report on a new approach to the study of headship in which they have been involved together; an approach which they describe as a dialectic of biography and autobiography.