VDM Parjanadze, N: Decentralisation and Dilemmas in School Leade

Decentralisation of education systems has become most widely spread policy in recent decades. It introduced new concepts in the field of education managerial, business-like approaches which place additional demands on educators, especially educational leaders. Now they need to deal with not only day-to-day teaching and learning issues, but perform rigorous tasks to manage education business . Despite the popularity of decentralisation policy, there is lack of research concerning its effects over school efficiency and school improvement. This is most true of Georgia, a former Soviet Republic, which adopted decentralisation policy to rehabilitate the system of education. Thus, educational professionals should find this book interesting and useful as it provides general overview of modern reform initiatives and concentrates on the Georgian context discussing dilemmas of school leadership.