Leadership in post-compulsory education / Marian Iszatt-White ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Iszatt-White, Marian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership.

Post-compulsory education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The issue of leadership, the need for good, insightful and decisive leaders is a prominent theme in Education. Yet few can define exactly what leadership is. This book examines the phenomenon of leadership in post-compulsory education through the careful description and analysis of a long-term observational study of college principals at work. In contrast to other, more theoretical, attempts to understand leadership, this book develops an understanding of leadership by pointing to specific examples of what leaders actually do as they go about their everyday work of resolving organisational iss

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; 1 Introduction: The Practice of Leadership; 2 The Trouble with Leadership; 3 The Art of Purposeful Hanging Around: An Ethnomethodologically-Informed Ethnography; 4 Leadership as Mundane Work; 5 Leadership as Presentation, Production and Performance; 6 Technologies of Leadership: The Medium and the Message; 7 Leadership: Success and Failure; 8 Conclusion: Reflections and Cautionary Tales; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613066695

9781283066693

1283066696

9781441132598

1441132597

OCLC:

713025939