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Title Rethinking educational leadership : challenging the conventions / edited by Nigel Bennett and Lesley Anderson.

Publication Info. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Published in Association with the British Educational Leadership and Management Society
Published in Association with the British Educational Leadership and Management Society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Rethinking educational leadership-challenging the conventions / Nigel Bennett and Lesley Anderson -- I: Laying out the perspectives -- 1. Leadership in the (post)modern era / J. Tim Goddard -- 2. Embracing uncertainty: organizing and leading to enhance the knowledgeability and capability of teachers / Rodney T. Ogawa -- 3. Leadership, learning and negotiation in a social psychology of organizing / Ian E. Morley and Dian-Marie Hosking -- 4. Distributing and intensifying school leadership / Peter Gronn -- II: The perspectives in practice -- 5. Challenging circumstances: the role of distributed and intensified leadership / Megan Crawford -- 6. From singular to plural? Challenging the orthodoxy of school leadership / Alma Harris and Christopher Day -- 7. Developing alternative conceptions of leadership and organizations through restructuring / Lynn M. Hannay -- 8. Collaboration in communities of practice / Jane McGregor -- 9. Leaders of subject communities / Christine Wise -- 10. Understanding curriculum leadership in the secondary school / John O'Neill -- III: The perspectives and professional development -- 11. Assessing the impact on practice of professional development activities / Nigel Bennett -- 12. Preparing for leadership in education: In search of wisdom / Peter Ribbins -- IV: Review and overview -- 13. Comparing and contrasting the perspectives: Mapping the field of educational leadership / Helen Gunter.
Summary The charismatic transformational leader, who creates a 'vision' for the future of their organization and persuades others to follow their path towards it, is now the dominant viewpoint that underpins government policies towards leadership development in the English-speaking world. This book offers a much-needed corrective to this orthodoxy by focusing on current research and thinking about 'leadership' rather than 'leaders. A wide range of prominent international contributors present a rare self critical look at their own assertions and test alternative leadership models against recent researc.
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Subject Educational leadership.
Educational leadership.
Indexed Term Electronic books
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bennett, Nigel, 1949 June 20-
Anderson, Lesley, 1951-
Other Form: Print version: Rethinking educational leadership. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2003 (DLC) 2003101545
ISBN 9781847876164 (electronic book)
1847876161 (electronic book)
9781446216811 (ebook)
1446216810 (ebook)
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9781281240118
0761949240
0761949259 (paperback)
9780761949244
9780761949251 (paperback)