The new work of educational leaders : changing leadership practice in an era of school reform / Peter Gronn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gronn, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School management and organization.

Educational leadership.

Physical Description:

176 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : P. Chapman Pub. ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2003.

Summary:

In The New Work of Educational Leaders, Peter Gronn provides a new framework for understanding leadership practice. The work of leaders will increasingly be shaped by three overriding but contradictory themes: design; distribution; and disengagement. These are the architecture of school and educational leadership. Contents: Introduction/Part I: The Architecture of Leadership/Designing Leaders/A Distributed View of Leadership/The Disengagement of Leaders/Part II: The Ecology of Leadership/What do Leaders Do?/Leaders' Committees and Meetings/Leadership Teams/The Emotion of Leaders/Leadership as Greedy Work

Contents:

Part 1 The Architecture of Leadership 7

1 Designing Leaders 7

2 A Distributed View of Leadership 27

3 The Disengagement of Leaders 51

Part 2 The Ecology of Leadership 71

4 What do Leaders do? 71

5 Leaders' Committees and Meetings 90

6 Leadership Teams 109

7 The Emotions of Leaders 128

8 Leadership as Greedy Work 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-171) and index.

ISBN:

0761947485

0761947493

OCLC:

52602638