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Rethinking Educational Leadership
Challenging the Conventions

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Leadership

May 2003 | 206 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The charismatic transformational leader, who creates a 'vision' for the future of their organization and persuades others to follow their path towards it, is now the dominant viewpoint that underpins government policies towards leadership development in the English-speaking world.

This book offers a much-needed corrective to this orthodoxy by focusing on current research and thinking about 'leadership' rather than 'leaders. A wide range of prominent international contributors present a rare self critical look at their own assertions and test alternative leadership models against recent research projects. They also demonstrate how their analysis is relevant to all countries where leadership is an issue.

Major features include:

] alternative theories to understanding

the nature of leadership

] how leadership could be analyzed

] re-analysis of recent research carried out by contributors in the light of one or more of the alternative theories examined

] implications of the alternative perspectives for leadership training

This book is recommended to all staff and students involved in educational leadership, management or administration programmes.

Nigel Bennett and Lesley Anderson
Introduction
Rethinking Educational Leadership - Challenging the Conventions

 
 
PART ONE: LAYING OUT THE PERSPECTIVES
J Tim Goddard
Leadership in the (Post)Modern Era
Rodney T Ogawa
Embracing Uncertainty
Organizing and Leading to Enhance the Knowledgeability and Capability of Teachers

 
Ian E Morley and Dian-Marie Hosking
Leadership, Learning and Negotiation in a Social Psychology of Organizing
Peter Gronn
Distributing and Intensifying School Leadership
 
PART TWO: THE PERSPECTIVES IN PRACTICE
Megan Crawford
Challenging Circumstances
The Role of Distributed and Intensified Leadership

 
Alma Harris and Chris Day
From Singular to Plural? Challenging the Orthodoxy of School Leadership
Lynne M Hannay
Developing Alternative Conceptions of Leadership and Organizations through Restructuring
Jane McGregor
Collaboration in Communities of Practice
Christine Wise
Leaders of Subject Communities
John O'Neill
Understanding Curriculum Leadership in the Secondary School
 
PART THREE: THE PERSPECTIVES AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Nigel Bennett
Assessing the Impact on Practice of Professional Development Activities
Peter Ribbins
Preparing for Leadership in Education
In Search of Wisdom

 
 
PART FOUR: REVIEW AND OVERVIEW
Helen Gunter
Comparing and Contrasting the Perspectives
Mapping the Field of Educational Leadership

 

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