Leadership, capacity building and school improvement : concepts, themes and impact / Clive Dimmock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dimmock, Clive A. J.

Series:

Leadership for learning (Routledge (Firm))

Leadership for learning series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School management and organization.

Educational leadership.

School improvement programs.

Physical Description:

viii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

"The Leadership for Learning series explores the connections between educational leadership, policy, curriculum, human resources and accountability. Each book in the series approaches its subject matter through a three-fold structure of process, themes and impact. Series Editors - Clive Dimmock, Mark Brundrett and Les Bell Leadership,"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Conceptualizing and contextualizing leadership 1

1 Clarifying and conceptualizing educational leadership as capacity building: key issues of contestation 3

2 New perspectives on educational leadership as a field of theory and practice: leaders' dispositions, school context and societal culture 22

3 The appeal and expectations of leadership and the importance of self-efficacy 37

4 Leadership as capacity building: designing schools fit for purpose 56

Part II Contemporary leadership themes 73

5 Learning-centred leadership 75

6 Distributed leadership as capacity building: possibilities, paradoxes and realities 98

7 Leadership of schools as 'research-engaged' professional learning communities 115

8 Leadership preparation and development as capacity building 132

Part III Policy, leadership practice and impact 153

9 Specialist schools and their leadership: an international comparison of England and Singapore 155

10 Transformational leadership and organizational change schooling as preparation for twenty-first century knowledge-based economies 174

11 Leadership as capacity building: traits and dispositions, interpersonal skills, context and culture - all matter 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415404365

0415404363

9780415404372

0415404371

9780203817452

0203817451

OCLC:

166382902