Understanding Educational Leadership: People, Power and Culture: People, Power and Culture - Couverture souple

Busher, Hugh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0335217176 ISBN 13 : 9780335217175

Editeur : Open University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book is aimed at school leaders, middle managers and teachers who want to understand more critically about how the organizational and interpersonal processes of leadership affect the quality of learning and teaching. The book considers how leaders at all levels in schools - from the most senior manager to the classroom teacher - negotiate and work together to construct, sustain and improve successful learning and promote a sense of community among the students and staff who are members of the school. This is a timely book as there is renewed recognition of the importance of distributed leadership in developing creative schools and an emerging recognition of teachers operating as leaders and managers of students' learning. Another key element is the recognition of the importance of middle managers in schools as pastoral leaders and subject leaders who can shape effective learning and teaching. Whilst other books have looked at the processes of school leadership (i.e. strategies and functions), the focus here is on people and the quality of relationships and how they can impact on the success or failure of school processes. It offers insights into why some strategies employed by

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr Hugh Busher is a senior lecturer in the School of Education, University of Leicester, where he is deputy director of the international Doctor of Education programme. He has had extensive experience of teaching in secondary schools and in universities where he has supervised Trainee teachers as well as Masters and Doctorla students. He is Coordinator of a British Educational Research Association (BERA) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Leading and Managing Schools and Colleges and a member of BERA Council. His research interests focus on aspects of Education that include: school-based leadership in particular socio-political contexts; the construction of organisational cultures of inclusion and social justice; teacher professional development; and the impact of power and values on the micro-politics of school-based decision-making.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0335217176
• ISBN 13: 9780335217175
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible