Principles of Educational Leadership & Management

This new edition brings together leading authorities from across the globe to provide a truly international perspective into educational leadership and management in school and post-school sectors. Covering both developed and developing countries, it is underpinned by a substantially updated analysis of theory, research, policy and practice.

Key topics include:
- How leadership and management differ in education
- An overview of key models of educational leadership
- The relationship between leadership capabilities and enhanced student outcomes
- Leading for diversity and inclusion and the policy and practice challenges that follow leadership for social justice

This is essential reading for anyone taking courses in educational leadership and management at postgraduate level, or as professional development, and for current and aspiring educational leaders seeking to enhance their practice.

List of contents

Part I: Principles of Educational Leadership and Management
1 Models of Educational Leadership - Tony Bush
2 Instructional Leadership 1950-2018: Transformation from an American to a Global Leadership Construct - Philip Halliinger
3 An Ethics of Educational Leadership for Turbulent and Complex Times - Mike Bottery
4 Solo and Shared Leadership - Megan Crawford
5 Excellence in Educational Leadership: Practices, Capabilities and Virtues that Foster Improved Student Outcomes - Viviane M. J. Robinson
Part II: Leadership, Management and Professionalism
6 Leading and Managing Professional Learning - Les Bell
7 Leading and Managing Professional Staff - David Middlewood
8 Appraisal and Performance Management - David Middlewood
9 Resource Management - Raj Mestry
10 Leadership Preparation and Development - Tony Bush and Carmen Montecinos
Part III: Leadership for Social Justice
11 Gender and Educational Leadership - Pontso Moorosi
12 Leadership for Diversity and Inclusion - Jack Lumby
13 Race and Ethnicity in Educational Leadership - Paul Miller
14 The Participation and Influence of Stakeholders in School Leadership and Management - Michael Connolly, Catherine Farrell and Chris James
15 Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances - Alma Harris and Michelle Jones
Part IV: Leadership and Context
16 Leadership and Globalisation - Howard Stevenson
17 Contextualising the Study and Practice of School Leadership in an era of Globalisation - Philip Hallinger
18 Leadership and Culture - Allan Walker and Qian Haiyan
19 School Leadership in Developing Countries: The Case of South Africa - Felix Maringe and Nevensha Sing
20 Educational Leadership in Post-Conflict Situations: A Brief Reconnoitre - Tom O'Donoghue and Simon Clarke

About the author

Tony Bush is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Nottingham, and previously held similar posts at the universities of Leicester, Reading, Lincoln and Warwick. He is President of the British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) and was presented with the Society’s Distinguished Service Award in 2008. He is also a Fellow of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM). He has an established international profile, with research, consultancy, or invited keynote presentations in 22 countries on all six continents. He has published extensively on many aspects of educational leadership and management, and has been editor of the leading ISI-listed international journal, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership, since 2002. His other recent books include Leading and Managing People in Education (with David Middlewood), and The Principles of Educational Leadership and Management (with Les Bell and David Middlewood).

Les Bell is Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership at the Universities of Leicester and Lincoln.  He trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths College, London and taught in both primary and secondary schools.  He joined the Education Department at Coventry College of Education and subsequently became a member of the Education Department at the University of Warwick. He has held posts at the Universities of Warwick, Liverpool John Moores, Lincoln and Leicester. He has written and researched extensively on educational management and leadership, particularly on ambiguity theory, strategy and change management, leading schools in challenging circumstances, new developments in educational leadership and the formulation and implementation impact of government policy and its impact on schools. He is co-editor, with Howard Stevenson, of Organizing Public Education – a four volume collection in the Major Works series. London, Sage His latest publications Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstance: Strategies for Success. London. Bloomsbury Press (2016), (with Phil Smith) and Agency, Structure and the NEET Policy Problem: The Experiences of Young People. London. Bloomsbury (2017) (with Ian Thurlby-Campbell)

David Middlewood is currently a part-time Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Studies in the University of Warwick, having previously worked at the University of Lincoln and the University of Leicester where he was Deputy Director of the Centre for Educational Leadership and Management. Prior to working in Higher Education, David taught in schools for many years, culminating in the principalship  of a comprehensive secondary school for nine years, where awards were won for creative arts and equal opportunities. He has taught and researched extensively in the UK and also in various countries in Europe and Africa, being a visiting professor in New Zealand and in South Africa. David has written and edited more than twenty books, many on people leadership and management, strategic leadership, appraisal, practitioner research and some recent research includes work on high performing teams, support staff and student voice. He was co-editor of two professional journals for both primary and secondary school leaders for over six years. He recently co-authored a book on the  leadership of groups of schools and his current work (with Ian Abbott) concerns leadership of learning for disadvantaged pupils.

Summary

This new edition brings together leading authorities from across the globe to provide a truly international perspective into educational leadership and management in school and post-school sectors.

Report

This is an engaging text which, drawing material from a range of disciplines, robustly tackles a number of the prevailing issues within the contemporary educational environment.  As such this text has the potential to offer value to practitioners, researchers, students and academic staff.

Hazel Beadle University of Chichester

Product details

• Authors: Tony Bush, Tony (University of Nottingham Bush, Tony Bell Bush
• Assisted by: Author (Editor), Les Bell (Editor), Tony Bush (Editor), Bush Tony (Editor), David Middlewood (Editor), Middlewood David (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781526431745
• ISBN: 978-1-5264-3174-5
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; EDUCATION / Leadership, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Teaching staff, Philosophy & theory of education