Leading futures : global perspectives on educational leadership
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Leading futures : global perspectives on educational leadership
SAGE, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A first-of-its-kind book on educational leadership with a global perspective
This book offers multiple perspectives on educational leadership from the viewpoint of scholars, policymakers and practitioners. It considers leadership in context and highlights the importance of cultural influences in shaping and forming leadership practices.
It is primarily concerned with 'leading futures' and the challenges faced by leading schools and school systems in an era of fast-paced technological change. It looks at leadership practices across four different levels (system, professional, leader and learner) and explores the connections therein. The book argues that these four levels are often viewed and described independently but in reality they are inherently interconnected and integrally related.
In short, this book takes a multilevel, multicultural and multicontextual look at contemporary educational-leadership practice. Through this comparative lens, it presents new ideas, knowledge and insights that would be relevant and ultimately useful to educational leaders around the globe.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
International Comparisons: Critique, Culture and Context - Alma Harris and Michelle Jones
1: SYSTEM LEVEL
Leading Futures: System Transformation
Who's Afraid of PISA: The Fallacy of International Assessments of System Performance - Yong Zhao
Economic Development and Competitiveness: A Primary Driver of School Reform Policy in the USA - Janet H. Chrispeels
Innovative Schools and Their Role in the Education Policy Cycle in Russia - Isak Froumin and Anatoly Kasprzhak
School Leadership Development in Hong Kong: Taking a Retrospective and Prospective View on Policy and Practice - Paula Kwan
Movers and Shapers: Reframing System Leadership for the 21st Century - Anthony Mackay and Albert Bertani
Leading System-wide Educational Improvement in Ontario - Carol Campbell
II: PROFESSIONAL LEVEL
Leading Futures: Leading Professional Learning
Exploring the Practice of Professional Learning Communities: Case of Hong Kong Primary Schools - Nicholas Sun-keung Pang and Zoe Lai-mei Leung
Principal Preparation and Professional Development in Malaysia: Exploring Key Influences and Current Practice - Corinne Jacqueline Perera, Donnie Adams and Vasu Muniandy
Designing and Developing Australian Principal Certification: With the Profession, for the Profession - Louisa Rennie
Networking for Educational Equity: Rethinking Improvement Within, Between and Beyond Schools - Christopher Chapman
Leading Professional Learning to Improve Schools in Challenging Circumstances in Russia - Serge Kosaretsky, Irina Grunicheva, Marina Pinskaya, Alma Harris and Michelle Jones
Developing Leaders for Schools in Singapore - Pak Tee Ng
III: LEADER AND LEARNER LEVEL
Leading Futures: Leading Learning
Generation X Leaders in Global Cities: Emerging Perspectives on Recruitment, Retention and Succession Planning - Karen Edge
Getting Beyond Our Fixation with Leaders' Behaviours: Engaging with Leading Practice for Real - James P. Spillane
Leading Effective Pedagogy - David Reynolds and Daniel Muijs
Leading Future Pedagogies - Jill Jameson
International Comparisons-Good or Misunderstood? - Alma Harris and Michelle Jones
Index
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