The power of responsive educational leadership : building schools for global challenges / Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz, John M. Fischer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazurkiewicz, Grzegorz, author.

Fischer, John M., 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational leadership.

Education and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

"The Power of Responsive Educational Leadership examines how educational leaders might respond to global challenges such as the environment, technology, inequity, the health crisis and the stability of democracy. It draws on models of educational leadership and development projects from around the world to explore how leaders might use the curriculum and teaching to help move their communities, regions and countries in positive directions. The authors argue that educational leadership needs to move away from authoritarian or transactional bureaucracy and toward leadership in a participatory mode, that feels responsible for the children and adults in their institution and responsible for the society they all inhabit. The Power of Responsive Educational Leadership: Offers a comprehensive exploration of the multi-faceted nature of leadership for learning Charts the key thinking and practices that engage with the principles of leadership for learning and the implications these have, Provides a variety of fresh perspectives on the connections between education, schooling and leadership, Includes a range of internationally diverse case studies and vignettes This comprehensive guide invites readers to engage in thinking about new directions for education today. The book will be a useful starting point for individuals who choose to engage in discussions and deliberations around what it means to be responsive. It will be invaluable for those who are working as principals and teachers or participating in education leadership development programs around the world and hope to work in various roles"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures

Foreword: Leadership Properly Understood

Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualizing foundations of responsive educational leadership

Education for learning

Our goal

How do we begin?

Aims and purpose of education

Getting actions started

How we have organized the book

Notes

Chapter 2: Challenges abound

Education in challenging times

Time to act

How education is changing

Educational priorities

Issues that matter

The environment and climate change

Diversity

Inequality

Technology

Democracy

Building responsive leadership that acts

Chapter 3: The local/global pendulum: Context, place, and educational leadership

Learning from others

Context and place matter

"Wicked" problems face us in real life

Reflection and meaning making

Our beginnings

A time of shifts

Influences on context

Democratization, post-colonialism, and the AIDS epidemic

Focusing on inequality and the need for participatory/distributed leadership

Fighting neoliberalism: Evaluation recentered on learning

Experience and interdisciplinarity

Developing principals for schools in the 21st century

What we have learned: Toward a framework for responsive educational leadership

Being responsive to challenges in our contexts and place

Chapter 4: Building a strategic framework for responsive educational leadership

Building a framework

Positioning responsive educational leadership

The leadership we need

A philosophical stance

Responsive educational leadership is authentic

Responsive educational leadership is aware of complexity and interdisciplinarity

Responsive educational leadership is focused on learning and development.

Responsive educational leadership is focused on equity, equality, and social justice

Responsive educational leadership is contextualized and reflective

Responsive educational leadership is distributed and participatory

Responsive educational leadership is democratic

Summarizing the framework for responsive educational leadership

Chapter 5: Actions focused on learning and development

The center of work

Curriculum

Developing learning within collaborative instructional leadership

Work to fulfill the moral obligations of leadership

Build a responsive organizational culture

Involve stakeholders in goal setting

Help teachers develop themselves

Space for students to be involved

Develop curricular leadership aware of interdisciplinarity and complexity

Infuse experience in education

Responding to challenges in the world

Strengthen a sense of identity for students and teachers

Learn to engage in deliberation in the classroom, across the school, and in the community

Develop digital and media literacy

Problem-based/problem-solving pedagogical models

Learning and development means reconsidering the aims of schooling

Chapter 6: Using responsive leadership to re-form school

What might school become?

Developing initiatives and educational projects as responsive leaders

The importance of reflection

Develop groups

Concept development

Action research

Self-evaluation

The capacity to implement responsive leadership in a school

Responsive leadership leads to re-forming school

Re-forming by connecting the aims of education and motivation

Re-forming relationships in the school

Re-forming the means of communication

Re-forming by distributing leadership

Re-forming schools by building confidence and agency.

Transforming systems begins by re-forming school

Chapter 7: A bird's eye view: Everything is connected

Introduction

The uncertainty of challenges

Structure and policy as essential drivers

Policies that contribute to a revision of the aims and purposes of education

Policies around control of the curriculum and freedom to innovate and respond

Policies around the revision of the methods of education and schooling

Policies around the development of principals

Policies around education in a post-industrialized, capitalist society

Policies that support and build the role of schools in fulfilling the promise of democracy

Systemic change

Protest and dialogue: The fabric of reality

Reflection and transformation

Dialogue as a tool

Promises and hope

Toward the future

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-35724-4

1-00-313027-5

1-000-35727-9

1-003-13027-5

1-000-35712-0

9781003130277

OCLC:

1232411422