Maggie Preedy & Nigel D Bennett 
Educational Leadership [EPUB ebook] 
Context, Strategy and Collaboration

Drawing together current thinking and research by leading writers in the field, this Reader will help you to understand and critically analyse key strategic aspects of educational leadership, including:

– leadership perspectives and values

– external and internal contexts

– autonomy and accountability

– partnership and collaboration

– leading strategy and change.

The book explores major challenges for educational leaders in managing the increasingly permeable boundary between educational organisations and their external contexts and reconciling environmental expectations and internal priorities. The Reader will encourage you to positively problematize the field and reflect on current debates and issues.

This book will be an essential resource for providers and students of postgraduate level courses in educational leadership and management, as well as those involved in undertaking professional development programmes. It will also serve the reflective practitioner as personal reference when occupying or aspiring towards leadership roles in schools, colleges and other educational organisations.

Dr Maggie Preedy, Professor Nigel Bennett and Dr Christine Wise have taught, researched and published widely in the field of educational leadership and management. Maggie Preedy and Christine Wise are Senior Lecturers in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at The Open University, UK. Nigel Bennett is Emeritus Professor of Leadership and Management in Education at The Open University.

Tabella dei contenuti

PART ONE: LEADERSHIP THEORIES AND VALUES

An overview of the leadership discourses – Simon Western

From successful school leadership towards distributed leadership – Lejf Moos

The nature and specialised purposes of educational leadership – Paul T. Begley

Emotional intelligence, emotional labour and affective leadership – Sam Held and Judy Mc Kimm

PART TWO: STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND MANAGING CHANGE

Concepts of leadership in organisational change – Gill Robinson Hickman

The nature and dimensions of strategic leadership – Brent Davies and Barbara J. Davies

The strategy lenses – Gerry Johnson, Kevan Scholes and Richard Whittington

The practice of leadership in the messy world of organisation – Jean-Louis Denis, Ann Langley and Linda Rouleau

PART THREE: LEADERSHIP IN CONTEXT

Reframing the role of organisations in policy implementation: resources for practice, in practice – James P. Spillane, Louis M. Gomez and Leigh Mesler

Contextualising leader dynamics: how public service leaders endeavour to build influence – Mike Wallace and Michael Tomlinson

Stories of compliance and subversion in a prescriptive policy environment – John Mac Beath

Evaluation, accountability and performance measurement in national education systems: trends, methods and issues – Katherine E. Ryan and Irwin Feller

′Blended leadership′: employee perspectives on effective leadership in the UK Further Education sector – David Collinson and Margaret Collinson

Leadership for diversity and inclusion – Jacky Lumby

PART FOUR: PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATION

Reconfiguring urban leadership: taking a perspective on community – Kathryn A. Riley

Networks as power bases for school improvement – Tessa A. Moore and Michael P. Kelly

Inter-professional work and expertise: new roles at the boundaries of schools – Anne Edwards, Ingrid Lunt and Eleni Stamou

Approaches to system leadership: lessons learned and policy pointers – Beatriz Pont and David Hopkins

PART FIVE: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

Leadership, participation and power in the school system – Richard Hatcher

The fourth way – Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley