Understanding school leadership / Peter Earley and Dick Weindling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Earley, Peter.

Contributor:

Weindling, Dick.

British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership.

Physical Description:

xix, 203 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Paul Chapman, 2004.

Summary:

By giving a detailed picture of the rapidly developing field of educational leadership, this book focuses on how to become a more effective manager and understand the vital importance of the manager's role in school improvement.

Written in a clear and readable style, it contains an extensive exploration of leadership models and management strategies and is based on the latest research. The text is supplemented with case studies of leadership in action.

Contents:

Part 1 The Changing Role and Nature of Headship 1

1 A Changing Discourse: From Management to Leadership 3

Notions of leadership and management 3

Theories of leadership 8

A changing discourse - from management to the leadership of learning 13

2 Stages of Headship 17

Stages heads went through in the NFER project (1982-94) 17

Professional and organisational socialisation 20

Stage theories of socialisation 22

Transition to headship: stages of socialisation 27

3 Who Becomes a Head and How Long Do They Stay? 31

The road to headship 31

Future plans 34

Length of tenure and performance 35

4 The Changing Appeal and Reality of Headship 42

The appeal of headship 42

Motivational factors 43

Demotivators 45

A changing role 45

Delegation 48

Teaching commitments 50

5 Outstanding Leaders 54

Characteristics of 'outstanding' headteachers 55

Leadership in action 57

Values-driven leadership 61

6 School Leadership in Action - a Case Study 62

Keston Infants and Nursery School 62

Leadership style 63

Vision and values 65

Key themes and issues 69

7 Accountability and Ethically Responsible School Leadership 71

Induction of newly qualified teachers 71

'Rogue' schools 73

Professional responsibility and public accountability 78

What needs to be done? 80

8 Images of Leadership 83

Metaphors and images 83

Changing metaphors for US principals 84

Four frames to look at leadership 85

Empirical work on educational metaphors 87

UK studies 89

Heads of large primary schools 91

Part 2 Distributed Leadership for School Improvement 95

9 Senior Management and Leadership Teams - Three Research Projects 97

Historical perspective 97

NFER secondary heads project (1982-94) 98

The effective management in schools project - 1993 102

Leadership in large primary schools project - 2002 106

10 The Heart of the School? Middle Leaders 111

The key to school success 111

Middle managers or middle leaders? 113

National Standards 114

Teaching and learning 115

Strategic direction 117

Tensions 120

11 Governors as Leaders 124

Do governing bodies matter? 124

Governors' leadership role 126

Headteacher selection 133

Ways forward 136

12 Governors and School Improvement 139

Governing bodies and school improvement 140

What inspectors look for 141

How governors help 143

Benefits to heads 145

The effective governing body 147

Critical friendship 149

Monitoring and evaluation 150

Governor training 152

13 Effective Schools and Improvement Strategies 155

School effectiveness 155

School improvement 160

NFER heads' views 161

'Failing schools' 165

14 Developing Leaders and Leadership Capacity 169

Problems experienced by heads 170

Training and development needs 171

Leadership development opportunities 173

Key features of leadership programmes 174

Creating a learning community 180.

Notes:

Published in association with the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761943706

0761943714

OCLC:

57007479