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.
Author(s): Harris, Alma Jones, Michelle S.
Publisher: Sage Publ.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 284
City: Los Angeles
Tags: EDUCATION / Special Education / General
Cover
Advance Praise
Contents
Acknowledgements
International Comparisons: Critique, Culture and Context
Section 1: System Level
Leading Futures: System Transformation
1. Who’s Afraid of PISA: The Fallacy of International Assessments of System Performance
2. Economic Development and Competitiveness: A Primary Driver of School Reform Policy in the USA
3. Innovative Schools and Their Role in the Education Policy Cycle in Russia
4. School Leadership Development in Hong Kong: Taking a Retrospective and Prospective View on Policy and Practice
5. Movers and Shapers: Reframing System Leadership for the 21st Century
6. Leading System-wide Educational Improvement in Ontario
Section 2: Professional Level
Leading Futures: Leading Professional Learning
7. Exploring the Practice of Professional Learning Communities: Case of Hong Kong Primary Schools
8. Principal Preparation and Professional Development in Malaysia: Exploring Key Influences and Current Practice
9. Designing and Developing Australian Principal Certification: With the Profession, For the Profession
10. Networking for Educational Equity: Rethinking Improvement Within, Between and Beyond Schools
11. Leading Professional Learning to Improve Schools in Challenging Circumstances in Russia
12. Developing Leaders for Schools in Singapore
Section 3: Leader and Learner Level
Leading Futures: Leading Learning
13. Generation X Leaders in Global Cities: Emerging Perspectives on Recruitment, Retention and Succession Planning
14. Getting Beyond Our Fixation with Leaders’ Behaviours: Engaging with Leading Practice for Real
15. Leading Effective Pedagogy
16. Leading Future Pedagogies
International Comparisons: Good or Misunderstood?
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
