The nature of school leadership : global practice perspectives / Paul W. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Paul (Professor of Educational Leadership), author.

Series:

Intercultural studies in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership.

School management and organization.

Physical Description:

xv, 211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

Explores school leadership through a cross-cultural comparative lens, drawing on data from 16 countries located on five continents. The book gives a voice to both primary and secondary school principals, who discuss the nature of their work and explain their understanding of school leadership, strategies used to support their leadership, and how they "do leadership" in a time of unprecedented change. The book highlights a number of important elements in school leadership: that it is personal and internally-motivated; change oriented and entrepreneurial; dependent on the qualities and motivations of school teachers; dependent on environmental factors related to economy, geography, political stability; heavily influenced by policies within and outside the field of education; and dependent on partnerships within and outside education. The book provides an authoritative cross-cultural account of what school leaders regard as school leadership. It will be essential reading for students, researchers and policy-makers in the fields of educational leadership and management, in particular those with an interest in comparative and international research, school leadership, and education policy.

Contents:

1 The global imperative of quality school leadership : Introduction

towards a definition of leadership

Cross-cultural research in educational leadership

School leadership research from school leaders' viewpoint

Design and methodology

The themes of the book

Analytical approach

Structure of this book

Participants

References. 2 School leadership is personal and internally motivated : Introduction

The issue in context: leadership, beliefs and values

Values and leadership

Situating leadership

The evidence

Personal factors

Personal values/purpose

Personal but a collective endeavour

Evidence summary

Making sense of it all

References. 3 School leadership is policy driven and mediated : Introduction

The issue in context: an emergent policy context

The global policy environment

National policy environment

Policies as roadmap and fuel

Policy overload and filtering

The evidence

Necessity of policies: providing guidance and direction

Policy filtering and mediation

Political environment and educational policy

references. 4 School leadership is change oriented : Introduction

The issue in context: the role and purpose of education

Education/schooling-transforming individuals

Education/schooling-transforming national development

The value of education

Change starts with schools

Change at the level of an individual

Change at the level of community/society

Change and resistance

Change and the policy environment

References. 5 School leadership is teacher dependent : Introduction

The issue in context: the work of teachers

Teachers: agents of change

Distributing leadership: teachers matter

Teachers as partners

Teachers as leaders

Teachers as learning leaders

Evidence summary

Reference. 6 School leadership is enterprising and entrepreneurial : Introduction

The issue in context: identifying entrepreneurial school leadership

Drivers of entrepreneurial school leadership

Entrepreneurial school leadership: key attributes

Market conditions: being entrepreneurial

Marketing schools

Creativity: being enterprising

The political dichotomy of entrepreneurial school leadership

References. 7 School leadership is context dependent : Introduction

The issue in context: identifying context

Locating a school's context: place, people, system

Context and leadership practice

Context and purpose

References. 8 School leadership is partnership dependent : Introduction

The issue in context: educational partnerships

Partnership drivers

Benefits of partnership working

International school partnerships

Home-school partnerships

School based partnerships

School-community partnerships

Partnership benefits

Partnership drivers and enablers

Sustaining partnerships

References. 9 The nature of school leadership : Introduction

Asserting the nature of school leadership

Identifying the nature of school leadership

Conclusions

References. Appendix. References. Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index (pages 205-211).

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

3319701045

9783319701042

OCLC:

1028557837