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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459531703321

Autore

Starratt Robert J.

Titolo

Refocusing school leadership : foregrounding human development throughout the work of the school / / Robert J. Starratt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-91640-7

1-136-91641-5

1-282-88609-6

9786612886096

0-203-84390-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 p.)

Disciplina

371.9

Soggetti

Educational leadership

Educational innovations

School psychology

School supervision

School management and organization

School employees

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 The Schooling Context of Human Development; CHAPTER 2 Working Within the Geography of Human Development; CHAPTER 3 Foregrounding Human Development in Professional Development; CHAPTER 4 Human Resource Leadership Within Its Organizational Setting; CHAPTER 5 The Politics of Human Resource Development; CHAPTER 6 The Moral Dimension of Human Resource Development; CHAPTER 7 Leaders of Leaders of Human Resource Development

CHAPTER 8 The Organic Interpenetration of Human Development Throughout the Work of Schools: A Different Leadership ChallengeReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Refocusing School Leadership departs from the more traditional



conceptualization of leadership, looking behind the daily routines of human resource leaders to highlight the assumptions and values and beliefs they bring to their work as well as the values and meanings embedded in the various contexts of school life. Starratt explores how educational leadership is grounded in one's own humanity as well as in a deep appreciation of the richness, complexity, and enormous potential of people, and he attempts to restore the centrality of human development in the work of educating the you