The challenges of educational leadership : values of a globalised age / Michael Bottery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bottery, Mike.

Series:

Leading teachers, leading schools

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 228 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Paul Chapman ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2004.

Summary:

In this book the author presents critical issues about the purposes of educational leadership. He aims to examine how official concepts of leadership are driven by demands which are not always to the educational, political, or social benefit of practitioners. This book will help educational leaders and aspiring educational leaders to examine their own values and practice.

Contents:

Epigraph viii

2 Shifting frames of reference: the need for ecological leadership 12

Part 1 Setting the Context

3 The global challenge 29

4 The impact of commodification and fragmentation 55

5 The impact of standardization and control 77

Part 2 Examining the Impact

6 The impact on trust 101

7 The impact on truth and meaning 123

8 The impact on identity 143

Part 3 Beginning A Response

9 Learning communities in a world of control and fragmentation 165

10 Professionals at the crossroads 185

11 Models of educational leadership 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.

ISBN:

1412900808

1412900816

OCLC:

56642235