Mr Michael Fertig
Research interests
- Effective schools in developing countries.
- School leadership and management in developing countries
- Leadership and Management of International Schools
Publications
Book/s
Wallace, M., Fertig, M. and Schneller, E., 2007. Managing Change in the Public Services. Oxford: Blackwell.
Wallace, M. and Fertig, M., 2007. Managing Complex Programmatic Change: Education and Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Book Sections
Wallace, M. and Fertig, M., 2007. Applying complexity theory to public service change: Creating chaos out of order? In: Wallace, M., Fertig, M. and Schneller, E., eds. Managing Change in the Public Services. Oxford: Blackwell, 36--56.
Wallace, M., Fertig, M. and Schneller, E., 2007. Introduction: Managing Public Service Change or Coping with its Complexity. In: Wallace, M., Fertig, M. and Schneller, E., eds. Managing Change in the Public Services. Oxford: Blackwell, 1--9.
Wallace, M. and Fertig, M., 2007. Orchestrating complex and programmatic change in the public services. In: Hartley, J., Donaldson, C., Skelcher, C. and Wallace, M., eds. Improving Public Service Delivery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fertig, M., 2000. Moving from School Effectiveness to School Improvement in International Schools. In: Hayden, M. and Thompson, J. J., eds. International Schools and International Education: Improving teaching, management and quality. London: Kogan Page, pp. 144-157.
Articles
Fertig, M., 2012. Educational leadership and the capabilities approach: evidence from Ghana. Cambridge Journal of Education, 42 (3), pp. 391-408.
James, C., Jones, J., Connolly, M., Brammer, S., Fertig, M. and James, J., 2012. The role of the chair of the school governing body in England. School Leadership & Management, 32 (1), pp. 3-19.
James, C., Brammer, S., Connolly, M., Fertig, M., James, J. and Jones, J., 2011. School governing bodies in England under pressure: the effects of socio-economic context and school performance. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 39 (4), pp. 414-433.
Bosu, R., Dare, A., Dachi, H. and Fertig, M., 2011. School leadership and social justice: evidence from Ghana and Tanzania. International Journal of Educational Development, 31 (1), pp. 67-77.
James, C., Brammer, S. and Fertig, M., 2011. International perspectives on school governing under pressure. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 39 (4), pp. 394-397.
Fertig, M., 2007. International School Accreditation: Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Journal of Research in International Education, 6 (3), pp. 333-348.
Bullock, K. and Fertig, M., 2003. Partners in Learning or Monitors for Attendance? Views on Personal Tutorials from Further Education. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 8 (3), 329--343.
Fertig, M., 2000. Old Wine in New Bottles? Researching Effective Schools in Developing Countries. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 11 (3), pp. 385-403.
Reports/Papers
James, C. R., Brammer, S., Connolly, M., Fertig, M., James, J. and Jones, J., 2013. The chair of the school governing body in England: what do chairs and headteachers say? Other. Reading, U. K.: CfBT Education Trust.
James, C., Brammer, S., Connolly, M., Fertig, M., James, J. and Jones, J., 2010. The 'hidden givers': a study of school governing bodies in England. Other. Reading: CfBT Education Trust.
Bosu, R., Dare, A., Dachi, H. A. and Fertig, M., 2009. School Leadership and Social Justice: Evidence from Ghana and Tanzania. Working Paper. EdQual.
Conference or Workshop Items
Chawla-Duggan, R., Denley, P., Fertig, M. and Oduro, G., 2010. Action research in researching quality: rhetoric and reality. In: World Congress of Comparative Education Studies, 2010-06-14 - 2010-06-18, Istanbul.
Fertig, M., 2006. Lessons from Leading Systemic Educational Reform in the United States. In: British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2006, 2006-09-06 - 2006-09-09, University of Warwick, Warwick.
Fertig, M., 2004. Modelling Complex Educational Change: a Preliminary Literature Review. In: British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2004, 2004-09-16 - 2004-09-18, UMIST, Manchester.
Fertig, M., 2003. Managing Tutorial Provision in Further Education. In: British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2003, 2003-09-11 - 2003-09-13, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
