Leadership, Capacity Building and School Improvement - Concepts, Themes and Impact

Informationen zum Autor Clive Dimmock is Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Education in Singapore and Professor Emeritus at the University of Leicester, UK. Klappentext Leadership in Education provides an authoritative, critical and insightful review of leadership. Zusammenfassung Leadership in Education provides an authoritative, critical and insightful review of leadership. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I Conceptualising and Contextualising Leadership 1. Clarifying and Conceptualising Educational Leadership: Key challenges and contestable issues 2. New perspectives on Educational Leadership as a Field of Theory and Practice 3. The Appeal and Expectations of Leadership and the Importance of Self-Efficacy 4. Leadership as Capacity Building: Designing schools fit for purpose PART II Contemporary Leadership Themes 5. Learning-centred Leadership 6. Leadership of Schools as 'research-engaged' Professional Learning Communities 7. Distributed Leadership as Capacity Building: possibilities, paradoxes and realities 8. Leadership Preparation and Development as Capacity Building PART III Policy, Leadership Practice and Impact 9. Specialist Schools and their Leadership: An international comparison of England and Singapore 10. Transformational Leadership and Organisational Change: Schooling as preparation for 21st century knowledge-based economies 11. Leadership as Capacity Building: Traits and dispositions, interpersonal skills, and context and culture - all matter

Product details

• Authors: Clive Dimmock, Clive (University of Leicester Dimmock, Dimmock Clive
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.12.2011
• EAN: 9780415404372
• ISBN: 978-0-415-40437-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Leadership for Learning Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Leadership, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Educational strategies & policy, Educational strategies and policy