Making sense of problems in primary headship /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Dunning, Gerald (Συγγραφέας), Elliott, Tony (Συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Θέματα: School principals.; Education > Leadership.; Teaching staff.

Managing problems has always been a major responsibility of headship, but a substantial number of primary heads now regard their role as especially problematic. With a steadily expanding set of responsibilities and an increasingly demanding set of constituencies to satisfy, the problems which imping...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Prelims
• Introduction
• Part I: What's the problem?
• Chapter 1 Mapping the minefield: explaining the research studies
• Chapter 2 Landmarks in the minefield: generic problem issues
• Chapter 3 New heads on their blocks: the problems of assuming headship
• Chapter 4 Hard labour: managing a problematic workload
• Chapter 5 Close encounters: problematic colleagues
• Chapter 6 Clients and consumers: problematic parents and pupils
• Chapter 7 More checks than balances: problematic partners in school governance
• Chapter 8 Counting the cost: the personal impact of headship
• Part II: What every head should know
• Chapter 9 Making sense of headship: knowing what
• Chapter 10 Making sense of headship: knowing how
• Chapter 11 Back to the future: revisiting classic knowledge bases for problem analysis and framing
• Chapter 12 Learning the ropes? On the ropes? Making sense of headteacher succession and socialisation
• Chapter 13 Putting problems in perspective: strategy and reflection in problem management
• Chapter 14 Hands on hearts and fingers on pulses
• Index
• References.