| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
School leadership series |
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School leadership series.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Alma Harris -- The changing context of leadership -- The changing context of leadership: research, theory and practice / Alma Harris -- The changing learning needs of heads: building and sustaining effectiveness / Christopher Day -- Contemporary views of leadership -- Instructional leadership and school improvement / David Hopkins -- Teacher leadership and school improvement / Alma Harris -- Building the capacity for leading and learning / David Hopkins, David Jackson -- Building leadership capacity -- Building capacity versus growing schools / Mark Hadfield -- Capacity-building, school improvement and school leaders / Mark Hadfield -- Building the leadership capacity for school improvement: a case study / Christopher Chapman -- Future directions and implications for leadership and school improvement -- Successful leadership in the twenty-first century / Christopher Day -- Professional learning communities and performance training cults: the emerging apartheid of school improvement / Andy Hargreaves |
| Summary |
In a complex and multi-layered world, the conventional idea of great leadership being the result of the efforts of a single individual is rapidly becoming redundant. This book takes up the challenge of finding an alternative method of leadership in educational contexts, and looks at how this can help achieve sustained improvement in schools. The authors acknowledge that there are no simple solutions to school improvement. They argue that the effective leaders of the future will be those who are able to share responsibility, build positive relationships and offer stakeholders - teachers, par |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Lyzeum Frankenhausen gnd |
| Subject |
School improvement programs -- Great Britain
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Educational leadership -- Great Britain
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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Educational leadership
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School improvement programs
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Qualitätssteigerung
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Schulleitung
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Schule
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Onderwijsmanagement.
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Enseignement -- Réforme.
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Personnel scolaire -- Direction.
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Administration scolaire.
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Leadership éducationnel.
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Réforme pédagogique.
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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Royaume-Uni.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harris, Alma, 1958-
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| LC no. |
2002068171 |
| ISBN |
9781134700981 |
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1134700989 |
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9780203754849 |
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0203754840 |
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1134701055 |
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9781134701056 |
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1299287581 |
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9781299287587 |
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