Centering educational administration [[electronic resource] ] : cultivating meaning, community, responsibility / / Robert J. Starratt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780218003321
• Autore: Starratt Robert J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003
• ISBN: 1-4106-0730-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.2/0071/1
• Soggetti: School management and organization - Study and teaching (Higher); School administrators - Training of
• 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; Part I: ELEMENTS OF THE LEADER'S VISION; Chapter 1 The Challenging World of Educational Leadership; Chapter 2 Cultivating Meaning; Chapter 3 Contested Meaning: Schooling Within the Legacy of Modernity; Chapter 4 Educating for Community: Modernity's Challenge; Chapter 5 Cultivating a Mature Community; Chapter 6 Cultivating Responsibility; Chapter 7 Cultivating Responsibility To and For Learning; Chapter 8 Cultivating a Responsible Community; Part II: BRINGING THE VISION TO REALITY; Chapter 9 Cultivating a Perspective on Learning; Chapter 10 EmpowermentChapter 11 Organic Management for Student Learning; Chapter 12 Leading by Design: The Medium Is the Message; Chapter 13 Leading a Learning Community; Chapter 14 School Administration as Autobiography; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Starratt enters the national conversation among educational administration scholars and practitioners about what constitutes the core of their knowledge and practice. In Part I, he develops three main themes--cultivating meaning, community, and moral responsibility--which he then positions against national themes about the core of educational administration: school improvement, democratic community, and social justice. Rather than focusing on the routine managerial tasks normally associated with school administration (budgeting, personnel and legal problems, time and resource man