Professional Supervision for Principals - A Primer for Emerging Practice

School leaders work in increasingly complex systems. Alongside leading learning, they daily navigate the needs and expectations of educational departments, teachers, students, parents, society, and themselves. Leadership can therefore be a dynamic vocational calling, but studies show that principals' professional agency, career sustainability, and wellbeing are diminishing. This Element brings a fresh perspective to how educational leaders can be better served and supported by collaborative, co-agentic partnerships at this time. It makes the case for professional supervision, a practice commonplace in clinical and pastoral professions that offers facilitated, action-oriented attention to the interplay of role, 'soul', and context. As a practice-based primer, this Element reclaims supervision against outdated associations with performance management by drawing on interdisciplinary research and the authors' own experience as supervisor partners with principals. It proposes a new schema of professional supervision in education informed by curiosity, unlearning, resonance, and attunement in a rapidly changing world.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. 'Nice but not necessary': the vexed place of reflective practice in education; 3. Frameworks and practices of professional supervision; 4. CURA for education leaders: a schema for professional supervision in education; 5. Closing; References.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Broughton, Mary Ann Hunter, Mary Ann (University of Tasmania) Broughto Hunter, Hunter Mary Ann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2025
• EAN: 9781009548151
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0954815-1
• No. of pages: 86
• Series: Elements in Critical Issues in Teacher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Organization & management of education, teacher training, Educational administration and organization, Teaching staff, Educational strategies & policy, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teacher Training & Certification