Sustaining the Comprehensive Ideal The Robert Clack School /

• Main Authors: Male, Trevor (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Palaiologou, Ioanna (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: School management and organization.; School administration.; Schools.; Educational sociology.; Teaching.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Schools and Schooling.; Sociology of Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

This book explores the development of educational leadership within difficult contexts via the lens of a previously failing English secondary school in an area of urban poverty. Based on extensive interview data from 2012-2016, the authors demonstrate that the fundamental ethos underpinning the scho...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The improvement process
• Chapter 3. Being part of the school community
• Chapter 4. Leadership - theory and practice
• Chapter 5. A shock to the system
• Chapter 6. The end of an era.