Description
Section I: Rhetorics, Realities and Research on School Leadership.- 1. School Leaders and Leadership: A Longitudinal Life History.- 2. School Leadership in Context: National Policies, International Influences.- Section II: Career Trajectories of Primary Principals.- 3. Perceptions of the Principal's Role: Insider Perspectives, Change over Time.- 4. Being and Becoming a Principal; 'Navi-gotiating' Identities.- 5. Principal Professional Learning: Sources of Sustenance?.- Section III: Policy, Practice & Principalship.- 6. Doing Leadership: The Significance of Inter-personal Relationships?.- 7. Inclusive Schools: Challenging Leadership?.- 8. More Leaders: Dissipated or Distributed Leadership?.- 9. 'Performing' Leadership: Professional Responsibility in a Climate of Accountability?.- Section IV: Sustaining Leaders, Sustainable Leadership: Future Directions.- 10. Leadership Capacity: Cohorts, Continuity, Change.- 11. Leadership: Succession, Recruitment, Retirement.- 12. School Leadership Unmasked: (Re-)Forming Leaders, Trans-forming Leadership?.- Appendix: Biographical sketches of participants.
Author: Ciaran Sugrue
Publisher: Springer
Published: 08/23/2016
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9789402408119
ISBN10: 9402408118
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Administration | General
- Education | Educational Policy & Reform