Unmasking School Leadership A Longitudinal Life History of School Leaders /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Sugrue, Ciaran (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Studies in Educational Leadership ; 20
• Θέματα: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.

This book is a longitudinal life history of the lives and work of primary school principals in Ireland. It provides a unique opportunity to peer inside the realities of leading schools in changing times. In a system that until recently did not prepare principals for the onerous roles and responsibil...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.