Successful Principal Leadership In Times Of Change An International Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Day, Christopher (Editor), Leithwood, Kenneth (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Studies In Educational Leadership ; 5
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Higher education.; Higher Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.

The leadership of school principals is an enormously powerful influence on the quality of schools and the learning of pupils. While the work of principals has been examined intensively over the past 20 years, almost no effort has been made to understand the role from an international or cross-cultur...

Table of Contents:

• Starting with What we Know
• Successful School Principalship in Tasmania
• Models of Successful Principal Leadership: Victorian Case Studies
• Sustaining Success in Challenging Contexts: Leadership in English Schools
• Successful Leadership Based on Democratic Values
• Successful Principalship – The Swedish Case
• Communicative Strategies Among Successful Danish School Principals
• Successful Leadership: Does Context Matter and If So, How?
• Successful Principalship in Shanghai: A Case Study
• Against the Odds: Successful Principals in Challenging U.S. Schools
• Building and Sustaining Successful Principalship: Key Themes
• What We Learned: A Broad View.