The Educational Leader in a World of Covert Threats : Creating Multi-Level Sustainability / Mike Bottery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bottery, Mike, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School management and organization.

Educational leadership.

Education--Environmentaql aspects.

Education.

Sustainability.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"In a rapidly changing world with threats to the sustainability of the environment, societies, institutions and the people within them, a crucial question for educational leaders needs to be: What are these threats to sustainability, and how does the role of the educational leader need adapting to meet them through this century? Bottery unpacks this question, starting by providing greater clarity of thought for action by examining how major terms in the field, including sustainability, resilience, well-being, complexity, inter-connectedness, sufficiency, and equity, are used, mis-used, or mis-understood. He looks specifically at five covert threats, whether unnoticed or deliberately hidden: wicked problems, positive feedback, exponential growth, inappropriate degrees of connectivity and tipping points. He looks at the impact of five covert threats to sustainability at micro-, meso-, and macro- levels, and how understanding and meeting these threats affects and changes the thought, values, and practice underpinning the educational leadership role. Bottery argues that such awareness should similarly alter the focus of educational institutions, and of inspectoral processes on these institutions, and needs to become part of the cultural zeitgeist of present-day societies if future generations are to inherit a sustainable world. In so doing, The Educational Leader in a World of Covert Threats provides an original, timely and essential re-think of the role of educational leadership which makes it unique in the educational leadership literature."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Part I: A Background of Inaction and Complexity. 1. The need for a new Model of Education Leadership ; 2. Educational Leadership and the Threat of Inaction ; 3. Educational Leadership for an Age of Complex Problems

Part II: Covert Threats. 4. Unmasking the Threats of Covert Processes ; 5. Planning for the Future by Scanning the Deep Past ; 6. Educational Leadership in an Uncertain Political Future ; 7. Understanding and Preparing for Tipping Points

Part III: Leadership Responses. 8. The Educational Leader's Role in Preventing Tipping Points ; 9. Using the Covid-19 Experience to Respond to Future Threats ; 10. The Ethical Commitments of Steward Leaders ; 11. New Frames for Accountability and Inspection ; 12. Educational Leadership for a World of Covert Threats

Afterword

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350160552

9781350160545

OCLC:

1289419470

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.