Evidence informed leadership in education / Alison Taysum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taysum, Alison.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership.

Education--Research.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the past three decades politicians, journalists, researchers within the academy, and neo-liberalist critics of state schools have articulated that educational research is neither meaningful nor worthwhile. Yet empirical evidence has revealed that research plays a key role in informing decisions made by educational leaders. This book explores the tools needed to conduct ethical educational research, and the contribution postgraduate research might make to the training and development of educational leaders and their thinking and practice within educational settings. Recent debates position t

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; 1 Evidence Informed Leadership; 2 Policy and Evidence Informed Leadership: Every Child Matters and No Child Left Behind in Focus; 3 Tools to Facilitate Evidence Informed Leadership; 4 Moving Towards Shared Understandings in Complex Educational Settings; 5 Confronting Taken-for-Granted Ways of Thinking and Doing that Limit Change; 6 Ethical Frameworks for Developing Evidence Informed Leadership; 7 Practical Cases Where Evidence Informed Leadership Enhanced Educational Opportunities While Meeting the Social Justice Agenda of Educational Policies

8 Evidence Informed Leadership Takes Time Because It MattersIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612710230

9781441128928

1441128921

9781282710238

1282710230

9781441131560

1441131566

OCLC:

813220676