Teacher Leadership - New Conceptions for Autonomous Student Learning in Age of Internet

List of contents

1. Current views and the Need for a New Model of Teacher Leadership 2. The Internet and its Implication for Teacher Leaders 3. The Nature and Function of Teacher Leadership: Looping Back or Looking Forward? 4. Instructional Leadership and Autonomous Student Learning: Resolving the Paradoxes 5. Teacher Leadership and Student Engagement: Bridging the School and the ‘Real World’ Divide 6. Involving the ‘Clients’: Why Teacher Leaders Need to Reinforce Home-school Connectivity 7. Educating Teachers for Leadership: Enhancing Preparedness and Professional Knowledge 8. Teacher Leadership in Context: Towards Critical Self-learning

Summary

Teacher leadership has undergone one major revolution and is in the process of undergoing another. The first was a result of the many practical limits to the "heroic leader" model of school leadership. The second is the rise of the Internet and ICT, and how these allow students to become autonomous learners.

Product details

• Authors: Colin William Evers, Evers Colin William, Kokila Roy Katyal, Kokila Roy Evers Katyal, Katyal Kokila Roy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2014
• EAN: 9780415534635
• ISBN: 978-0-415-53463-5
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Research in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Classroom Management, EDUCATION / Leadership, Organization & management of education, teacher training, Educational administration and organization, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques