Excerpt from The Principal and His School: The Organization, Administration, and Supervision of Instruction in an Elementary School AN attempt has been made in this volume to do What in the industrial world is commonly spoken of as job analysis. The problem set has been an analysis of the work of a princi pal _or supervising principal in. The organization, administra4 tion, and supervision of instruction in an elementary school in a city, town, or county-unit school system, or of a super vising principal for a small group of closely related elemen tary schools. In addition, at the beginning of the volume, there is a statement as to the importance and opportunities and possibilities of the principalship as it is possible to make it in our American school systems, and at the close attention is called to the constantly growing outside relationships of the scheol of Which a principal must to-day take cognizance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Harry Wolcott's ground-breaking anthropological study into the life of an elementary school principal is now reprinted in a new edition. One of the first studies of its kind, Wolcott uses an mircoenthnographic approach to analyze a single occupation within urban American society. Originally written in 1973, the text skillfully applies anthropological concepts and methodology to the realm of education. This new edition features an updated preface written by the author.

Presents the fundamental concepts and theories of organizational behavior and processes of leadership and their applications to the problems of educational leadership practice.