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Record Nr.

UNINA9910768477203321

Autore

Willis Linda-Dianne

Titolo

Principal Leadership for Parent Engagement in Disadvantaged Schools [[electronic resource] ] : What Qualities and Strategies Distinguish Effective Principals? / / by Linda-Dianne Willis, Jenny Povey, Julie Hodges, Annemaree Carroll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

981-16-1264-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (95 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Education, , 2211-193X

Disciplina

016.428

Soggetti

School management and organization

School administration

Educational sociology

Education and state

Education - Research

Organization and Leadership

Sociology of Education

Education Policy

Research Methods in Education

Sociologia de l'educació

Administració escolar

Política educativa

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 Parent engagement—the imperative! -- Chapter 2 Reviewing the literature on principal leadership for parent engagement -- Chapter 3 Describing the research design and methods and introducing the school sites and principal participants -- Chapter 4 Presenting key player findings -- Chapter 5 Presenting school learning findings -- Chapter 6 Presenting school culture findings -- Chapter 7 Responding to the provocation: What gives some principals the edge on parent engagement. .



Sommario/riassunto

This book presents and theorises research findings into why and how school principals play a critical role in engaging parents and their school communities to enhance student learning and wellbeing. It highlights the imperative of parent engagement as evidenced by clear, consistent findings from research over the last fifty years and government reforms, policies and frameworks internationally and nationally in Australia which have been driven by the weight of this evidence. It focuses on a research project conducted from 2016 to 2017, titled 'Principal leadership for parent-school-community engagement in disadvantaged schools'. This project investigated four principals identified as successful in parent engagement based on findings of state-wide survey research of principals and presidents of parents and citizens’ associations in 2014 in Queensland, Australia. This book offers theoretical and empirical evidence based on literature for the qualities successful principals in parent engagement exhibit, and the strategies they take to achieve parent and community engagement. It shows how the concept of agency as achievement can be used by educators and public policy makers to enable school leaders and teachers to adopt qualities and strategies that will engage parents in their child’s learning and wellbeing, so that improved outcomes for their child and schools can result.