Leading Professional Practice in Education

Christine Wise - The Open University
Marion Cartwright - The Open University
Pete Bradshaw - The Open University

Series:
Published in association with The Open University

Other Titles in:
Continuing Professional Development | Leadership | Leadership & Management

September 2012 | 304 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This volume provides an overview of key contemporary themes in educational leadership. It focuses on developing professional capacity, organisation improvement and the implementation of change, looking at theoretical frameworks and concepts, recent research studies and case examples of effective practice.

The book covers:

- leading learning and learner leadership

- change processes and distributed leadership

- leading professional development for educational contexts.

Designed to encourage critical analysis and debate, this volume will be a useful resource for postgraduate and professional development courses in educational leadership and for practitioners. It is a companion to Educational Leadership: Context, Strategy and Collaboration, also published by Sage.

Margaret Preedy

Introduction

PART ONE: LEADING LEARNERS AND LEARNER LEADERSHIP

Pete Bradshaw

Introduction

Sue Swaffield and John MacBeath

Leadership for Learning

Kenneth Leithwood

Leadership and Student Learning: What Works and How

Alma Harris

Teacher Leadership and Organisational Development

Viviane M. J. Robinson, Claire A. Lloyd and Kenneth J. Rowe

The Impact of Leadership on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Differential Effects of Leadership Types

Pamela R. Hallam et al

Trust and Educational Leadership: Comparing the Development and Role of Trust between U S and Ugandan School Administrators

Pat Thomson

Coming to Terms with 'Voice'

Mark Priestley

Schools, Teachers and Curriculum Change: A Balancing Act?

PART TWO: WORKING AS A CHANGE AGENT

Margaret Preedy

Introduction

Michael Fullan

Educational Change: Implementation and Continuation

Linda Darling-Hammond

Teaching and the Change Wars: The Professionalism Hypothesis

Jorunn Møller

School Leadership in an Age of Accountability: Tensions between Managerial and Professional Accountability

Helen S. Timperley

Distributing Leadership to Improve Outcomes for Students

Raymond Caldwell

Change from the Middle? Exploring Middle Manager Strategic and Sense-Making Agency in Public Services

Rosalind Levacic

Managing Resources to Support Learning

PART THREE: LEADING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Marion Cartwright

Introduction

Jacky Lumby and Fenwick English

From Simplicism to Complexity in Leadership Identity and Preparation: Exploring the Lineage and Dark Secrets

Victoria J. Marsick, Karen E. Watkins, and Barbara Lovin

Revisiting Informal and Incidental Learning as a Vehicle for Professional Learning and Development

Louise Stoll

Leading Professional Learning Communities

Tony Bush

Leadership Development

Bruce G. Barnett and Gary R. O'Mahony

Mentoring and Coaching Programmes for the Professional Development of School Leaders

Marion Cartwright

Myriad Professional Identities: The Challenge for Leading Professional Development in the Further Education Context?

Margaret Preedy

Conclusion

Index

Very good book and excelelnt for my students to develop deeper thinking

Mrs Donna O'Connor

EYCYP, NWRC Strabane Campus

November 20, 2012

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This is a detailed book exploring leadership in educational contexts. The impact of different styles of leadership is explored as well as issues linked to implementing change in educational contexts.

Mrs Gill Fry

Education, Havering College of Further and Higher Education

November 7, 2012

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