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This book is about the importance of social capital and professional development leadership for teachers and school leaders. It synthesizes the research on the role of the professional development leader, the development of social capital in schools and its potential impact for large scale system wide reform projects.
List of contents
1: Social Capital: The Professional Development Imperative for Large Scale Reform 2: System Reform and Primary Literacy: Implication for School Leadership 3: Wicked Path to Transformative Education Reform 4: Design Research Approach in the Large Scale Educational Innovations 5: High Performing Teachers Colleges, Social Capital and Large Scale Reform in the Kingdom of Bahrain 6: Assessment of Wide-Scale Educational Reform Initiatives: Opportunities in Social Capital Building 7: Developing Social Capital through National Education: The Transformation of Teacher Education in Turkey 8: System Improvement through Capacity Building: the Power and Potential of Professional Learning Communities 9: System and Policy Dimensions of Professional Development 10: Australian Middle Years Reform: A Focus on Teachers and Leaders as the Subjects and Agents of Change 11: Career Guidance in Oman - Establishing a Centre and the use of Action Research as a Tool for Capacity Building 12: Educational Reform and Professional Development: Paradigm Shift and International Syndrome
About the author
Professor Ian R. Haslam is the Dean of Bahrain Teachers College at the University of Bahrain.
Dr Myint Swe Khine is an Associate Professor and Head of Graduate Programs and Research at Bahrain Teachers College at the University of Bahrain.
Dr Issa M. Saleh is an Associate Professor and Head of Education Studies at Bahrain Teachers College at the University of Bahrain.
Summary
This book is about the importance of social capital and professional development leadership for teachers and school leaders. It synthesizes the research on the role of the professional development leader, the development of social capital in schools and its potential impact for large scale system wide reform projects.
