Rethinking educational leadership : from improvement to transformation / John West-Burnham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

West-Burnham, John, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School management and organization.

Educational leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[London] ; New York : Network Continuum, c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

John West-Burnham offers a radical critique of prevailing models of leadership in education, particularly models of school leadership, notably the British view of headship. For almost a generation, school leadership has been focused on the concept of improvement, within a policy context of improvement and a prevailing culture rooted in incremental adjustment rather than a fundamental reappraisal. Transformation is a particularly evocative concept; it is one of those words that it is almost impossible to raise objections to. However, as is so often the case with such words, its power is often p

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Leadership for transformation; 2 Leadership and creativity; 3 Leadership and democracy; 4 Moral leadership; 5 Interpersonal leadership; 6 Leadership and spirituality; 7 The leader as intellectual; 8 Leading learning communities; 9 Leadership development and personal effectiveness; 10 Strategies to support transformation; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-139) and index.

ISBN:

9786612875915

9781441172716

1441172718

9781282875913

1282875914

9781441174277

1441174273

OCLC:

682540892