The Practices of School Middle Leadership Leading Professional Learning /

• Main Author: Grootenboer, Peter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Child development.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Early Childhood Education.

This book uses practice theory to examine the role of 'middle-leadership'. In particular, it investigates the practices of 'leading in the middle' in the cultural-discursive, material-economic, and social-political domains - i.e., the sayings, doings and relatings of middle leadi...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction to Middle Leading
• 2 Theories and Models of Educational Leadership
• 3 Practice Philosophy and Theories
• 4 Investigating Middle Leading
• 5 The Practices of Middle Leading
• 6 Middle-Leading within Practice Architectures
• 7 The Ecological Arrangement of Middle-Leading Practices
• 8 Site-based Staff Development Practices
• 9 The Praxis of Leading in the Middle.