Hoyle: Ambiguity, serendipity, and playfulness

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Hoyle's interest in the nature of management arises from his interest in the nature of organisations. But his work is best defined by his focus on a theory for understanding organisations rather than management theory, or a so-call theory for action. For Hoyle, it is more useful to answer the question how leaders or managers can best support and develop teachers as professionals, hence the notion of 'temperate' leadership (Hoyle and Wallace, 2005), as opposed to putting into practice much of ...

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Authors: Johnson, D; MacLean, R

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Host title: Teaching: Professionalization, Development and Leadership: Festschrift for Professor Eric Hoyle
• Pages: 3-8
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8186-6_1
• ISBN: 9781402065316