Teachers and the Practice of Leadership - Enabling Change for Transformation and Social Justice

Driven by the pursuit of social justice and quality in education, this inspirational book offers an alternative vision of leadership in education. It argues that teachers, regardless of status or position, should be empowered to exercise leadership in the pursuit of educational change and improvement.

List of contents

1. An overview of this book 2. Being a teacher: identity and professionality 3. Change in education: the teacher's role 4. Educational leadership: mobilising capacity 5. Strategies for enabling teacher-led change 6. Transformation for social justice: the evidence 7. Creating the conditions for teacher-led change 8. A pedagogy for teacher empowerment

About the author

David Frost is Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK. He founded and directed HertsCam Network which provided support for teacher leadership in schools in the UK and internationally.
Judy Durrant was a schoolteacher before leading postgraduate courses and school development projects at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK for nearly three decades.
Val Hill is a former assistant headteacher of a Hertfordshire secondary school and has coordinated the HertsCam Network.
Gary Holden has worked as a teacher, headteacher, academy trust CEO, local authority adviser and school inspector in a career spanning almost 40 years.
Amanda Roberts has been a school principal, an academic and university senior leader. She is currently developing innovations in the field of palliative care.

Product details

• Authors: Durrant Judy, David Frost, David (University of Cambridge Frost, Hill Val, Holden Gary, Amanda Roberts
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.08.2025
• EAN: 9781041032731
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4103273-1
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Medicine, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Leadership, Social Work, Organization & management of education, teacher training, Educational administration and organization, Educational strategies & policy, Educational strategies and policy, Medicine and Nursing, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary