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Title Passionate principalship : learning from the life histories of school leaders / edited by Ciaran Sugrue.

Publication Info. London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 209 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Critical introduction / Ivor Goodson -- Putting 'real life' into school leadership : connecting leadership, identities, and life history / Ciaran Sugrue -- Sustained motivation embedded in place : living with accountability and mandated change / Colin Biott and John Spindler -- Old metaphors, new meanings : being a woman principal / Jorunn Møller -- Memberships and relationships in a changing context / Lejf Moos -- Creating continuity through change : comfort with uncertianty / Ciaran Sugrue -- Coping with accountability : tensions between reason and emotion / Jorunn Møller -- Regulation and trust : negotiating relationship / Lejf Moos -- Immediacy and distance : inter-generational professional learning / John Spindler and Colin Biott -- Being principal : leadership inside out / Ciaran Sugrue -- Principalship : beyond pleasure, pain and passion / Ciaran Sugrue -- Appendices.
Summary This is a no-holds-barred account of school leaders' lives and work as they juggle with competing and often conflicting policy initiatives.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject School principals -- Europe -- Case studies.
School principals.
Europe.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject School management and organization -- Europe -- Case studies.
School management and organization.
Educational leadership -- Europe -- Case studies.
Educational leadership.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Sugrue, Ciaran.
Other Form: Print version: Passionate principalship. London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2005 0415318866 (DLC) 2004005948 (OCoLC)54753573
ISBN 0203005910 (electronic book)
9780203005910 (electronic book)
0415318866 (hardback ; alkaline paper)