Education partnerships are central to--and often a requirement of--most education reform initiatives promoted by state and local governments, by foundations, and by business funders. Many fail for failure to understand the dynamics of their complex relationships. This book provides insights and guidance to enable prospective and existing education…

Oriented toward a consideration of administration from the standpoint of departmental problems, this textbook deals with administrative techniques and practices pertaining to public administration of recreational services. It covers organization, operation, planning, development, and managerial procedures, and also describes the basic elements of…

A study of human relations as it applies to leadership, change, and education in its broadest sense is presented in this text. The book brings together the basic factors governing human behavior and interaction and relates them to actual learning situations involving administrative, management, supervisory, and teaching skills. It presents aids…

The casebook is designed for use during graduate classes in administration and supervision in industrial-technical education, or for use by other individuals who are already employed or who are preparing for employment as administrators or supervisors. Problems and situations which can be solved in many different ways are presented for discussion.…

This book brings together in one source, basic participative management theory, a broad range of research on the subject, and a number of methods and techniques to assist the practitioner in implementing participative management. Three sections included are (1) Concepts and Theory, (2) Research Studies, and (3) Practice and Implementation. Focus…