Thrust for Educational Leadership
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 420
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The Essentiality of Educational Leadership in Humanity and Its Relationship with Business.
Author: Jonathan A. Marcellus
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-03-08
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 146917409X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeadership has dissimilar characteristics. They are emergent, charismatic, visionary, situational, educational, political and more. I will focus on the educational aspect of leadership to cover many sectors that are impacted by it. Because educational leadership is a very important component in this society today, facts contributing to the power of educational leadership will be addressed based on many academic experts works or researchers findings. Those facts will indicate how educational leadership has influenced business organizations and educational institutions, its relationships with them, and how those organizations have benefited from it. For centuries education has been very appealing to our society. Henceforth, I will employ many experts works to show the importance of educational leadership, the quantity and the quality of difference it has brought into individuals mostly children or students as well as business organizations.
The Constructivist Leader
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Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2002-08-02
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780807742532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Constructivist Leader provides educational leaders at all levels with a conceptual framework for leadership defined as reciprocal, purposeful learning in community. The updated Second Edition of this best-selling book enables readers to carry this constructivist vision and purpose forward, while effectively implementing standards-based reform, authentic assessment, and constructivist-based accountability. This new edition features: an expanded theory of Constructivist Leadership reflecting the most recent thinking in leadership, learning, and ethical communities; a comprehensive approach to issues of equity, diversity, and multiculturalism; additional strategies for the implementation of constructivist leadership practice; principles and examples to guide new approaches to accountability; and much more!
Educational Leadership
Author: Margaret Preedy
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1473975042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing together current thinking and research by leading writers in the field, this Reader will help you to understand and critically analyse key strategic aspects of educational leadership, including: - leadership perspectives and values - external and internal contexts - autonomy and accountability - partnership and collaboration - leading strategy and change. The book explores major challenges for educational leaders in managing the increasingly permeable boundary between educational organisations and their external contexts and reconciling environmental expectations and internal priorities. The Reader will encourage you to positively problematize the field and reflect on current debates and issues. This book will be an essential resource for providers and students of postgraduate level courses in educational leadership and management, as well as those involved in undertaking professional development programmes. It will also serve the reflective practitioner as personal reference when occupying or aspiring towards leadership roles in schools, colleges and other educational organisations. Dr Maggie Preedy, Professor Nigel Bennett and Dr Christine Wise have taught, researched and published widely in the field of educational leadership and management. Maggie Preedy and Christine Wise are Senior Lecturers in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at The Open University, UK. Nigel Bennett is Emeritus Professor of Leadership and Management in Education at The Open University.
Theories of Educational Leadership and Management
Author: Tony Bush
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010-11-30
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1446259838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this established text Tony Bush presents the major theories of educational management, and links them to contemporary policy and practice. Leadership continues to be one of the major criteria used to differentiate the models; but the author now makes clear links between educational management theories and the main models of leadership. The author applies the models to a range of international contexts, including both developed and developing countries. This relates to global interest in concepts of leadership and management and to an increasing recognition of the need to customize theory and practice to each context and culture rather than adopting a `one size fits all′ approach. For the Fourth Edition, the essential conceptual models remain. New case study material has been added from the full range of education and non-school settings, from early years through to further and higher education. Each chapter now includes key words, summary and end of chapter materials including issues for discussion. Key terms are defined in-text for the non-expert reader and all references and relevant key legislation details have been fully updated. This book is essential reading for all teachers who aspire to management, as well as for experienced leaders on Masters′ level courses, and for those studying school management as part of education studies degrees.
Preparing for Educational Leadership
Author: Kenneth Forman
Publisher:
Published: 2014-03-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781269658614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide for educational leadership students in preparing for State licensure examinations. This book provides actual cases and problems that building and central office administrators face in everyday life. Each performance task includes a solution to the problem along with a rationale to assist the future leader in understanding how to deal with the task.
Marketing 101
Author: David J. Carroll
Publisher: R&L Education
Published: 2011-05-16
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 160709598X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support is a compact, practical handbook created to guide educators in the application of marketing strategies that get results. For many years, marketing has been implemented in school settings with a fragmented, piecemeal approach_only to have disappointing and sometimes expensive results. This book will introduce educators to sound marketing principles and action steps. Full of descriptive, concrete examples, the information is easy to adapt to any educational setting as a workhorse to capture and retain community support. The years ahead forecast challenging demographics, savvy consumers and high expectation stakeholders. Susan and David Carroll detail how to interpret demographic trends, assess your image in the community, groom your staff as ambassadors, select and use marketing communications tools correctly, pass your budgets, and other strategic marketing steps for immediate use and success. This book is essential to educators who want their schools to be aligned with the community they serve.
Preparing for Educational Leadership
Author: Kenneth Forman
Publisher:
Published: 2018-01-10
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781323818275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New Work of Educational Leaders
Author: Peter Gronn
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2003-02-18
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780761947493
DOWNLOAD EBOOK`If there in one word to describe the issues addressed by Peter Gronn in The New Work of Educational Leaders it's "timely" And if there is one book that education policy makers, system CEOs and education ministers should find the time to read, this is it' - Educare News `This book is essential reading fro those involved in educational leadership and policy development. This work is also valuable for those interested in the locally organized and interactionally achieved context of institutional work' - Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics if Education `Though based in Australia, Peter Gronn shows familiarity with the British education system, and this boo is relevant to those in the compulsory and post-compulsory sectors interested in the themes of education leadership' - Learning and Skills Research In The New Work of Educational Leaders, Peter Gronn provides a new framework for understanding leadership practice. The work of leaders will increasingly be shaped by three overriding but contradictory themes: design; distribution; and disengagement. These are the `architecture' of school and educational leadership. Designer-leadership is the use of mandatory standards of assessment and accreditation for school leaders, such as the National Qualification for Headship (NPQH) in the United Kingdom and the (Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) standards in the United States. Distributed patterns of leadership have developed in response to the intensification of school leaders' work under policy regimes of site-based and school self-management. Disengagement describes a culture of abstention, in which school systems anticipate leadership succession problems, such as projected shortages and recurring recruitment difficulties.
The Ethical Dimensions of School Leadership
Author: P.T. Begley
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-04-11
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0306482037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book about valuation processes in educational administration has a particular focus on the notions community and professionalism. The topic is addressed comprehensively bringing together the work of some of the best-known and most respected philosophers, theorists and researchers working in this field. It will be of interest to university faculty, graduate students and educational administrators.
