School and system leadership : changing roles for primary headteachers / Susan Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elementary school administration--Great Britain.

Elementary school administration.

Elementary school principals--Great Britain.

Elementary school principals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2012.

Summary:

Schoolleadership is undergoing significant change as headteachers respond to newopportunities and challenges offered to or imposed on them as a result ofgovernment policy. There have been increasing callsfor transformational change to redesign the school system to provide asuitable workforce for the knowledge economy and to manage the anticipatedshortage of future school leaders. Sue Robinson combines her professionalexperience as a practising primary headteacher and National Leader of Educationwith recent research into the impact of government policy on the roles ofprimary heads to offer an analysis of the shifting nature of school leadership.Headteachers have taken advantage of roles available including consultancy, leadership of academies and federations and children's centres.AIncluding interview material with 27 'outstanding' primary headteachers, thisis the first book combining research and practitioner insight to show how: A- heads have managed the educational agenda- how they have built capacity in school to sustain their new internal andexternal roles- their motivations, insights and experiences- the implications for government educational policy and leadershipdevelopment"

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Series""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1 Policy Contexts and the Challenges of Headship""; ""1 The Changing Landscape of Headship: From Consensus to System Redesign""; ""2 The Challenges of Headship: Policies and Themes from Labour�s Second Term and the Coalition""; ""3 Changing Roles: Leadership, Management and CPD""; ""Part 2 Changing School Organizations and Roles for Headteachers""; ""4 The Development of New Roles for Headteachers""; ""5 Changing Internal Roles and System Leadership""

""6 Standards, Accountability and Leadership""""7 The Strategic Leader: Building Capacity""; ""Part 3 Findings and Implications for School Leadership and Government Policy""; ""8 Key Findings for School Leadership""; ""9 Implications and Recommendations for Government Policy""; ""Glossary""; ""Appendix � Interview List of Headteachers""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-57860-2

9786613608352

1-4411-1455-6