A commonsense approach to educational leadership : lessons from the founders / Robert Palestini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palestini, Robert H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership.

Physical Description:

ix, 166 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, [2012]

Summary:

Leaders and aspiring leaders are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them successful and how those attributes can be applied to one's own leadership practice, whether that be as a classroom teacher, a principal, or a superintendent of schools. Book jacket.

Contents:

Contemporary leadership theory

Leading with heart

Noah Webster

Horace Mann

Booker T. Washington

Charles William Eliot

Marie Montessori

Robert Hutchins

John Dewey

Paulo Freire

Theodore Hesburgh

Marcus Foster

Leadership lessons learned.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781610487474

1610487478

9781610487481

1610487486

9781610487498

1610487494

OCLC:

785874876