School Leadership - International Perspectives
Research into school effectiveness in recent decades has corroborated the theory that the school leader has a pivotal role to play in making their school a successful institution and especially in its improvement. In fact, the school leader is most often cited as the key factor in a schools develop...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2010.
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| Series: | Studies in Educational Leadership ;
10 |
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3501-1 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: School Leadership: International Perspectives
- *. Improving Schools in Hong Kong: A Description of the Improvement Model and Some Reflections on Its Impact on Schools, Teachers and School Principals
- 2. Structure, Culture Leadership Prerequisites for Successful Schools? Measuring the Social and Civic Objectives
- 3. Educational Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice
- 4. School Leadership Effectiveness The Growing Insight in the Importance of School Leadership for the Quality and Development of Schools and their Pupils
- 5. The Principal as Educational Leader: What Makes the Difference
- 6. From Successful School Leadership towards Distributed Leadership
- 7. The Professionalization of Instructional Leadership in the United States: Competing Values and Current Tensions
- 8. Valuesbased Leadership: At the Heart of Sustaining School Reform and Improvement
- 9. System-sensitive Professional Leaders in Education
- 10. Multiple Thinking and Creativity in School Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Development
- 11. Realising the Potential of System Leadership
- 12. Preparing School Leaders International Approaches in Leadership Development
- 13. Developing New School Leaders: Application of International and Local Knowledge to Practice
- 14. Investigating the Use of Capability and Standards Referenced Frameworks to Support the Professional Learning of Aspiring, New and Experienced School Leaders in the Public Education System in New South Wales, Australia
- 15. Cloning Their Own: Aspirant Principals and the School- Based Selection Game
- 16. The Recruitment and Selection of School Leaders First Findings of an International Comparison
- Index.