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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784913303321

Autore

Taysum Alison

Titolo

Evidence informed leadership in education [[electronic resource] /] / Alison Taysum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2010

ISBN

1-4411-2892-1

1-282-71023-0

9786612710230

1-4411-3156-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Disciplina

371.2

Soggetti

Educational leadership

Education - Research

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

Contents; Foreword; 1 Evidence Informed Leadership; 2 Policy and Evidence Informed Leadership: Every Child Matters and No Child Left Behind in Focus; 3 Tools to Facilitate Evidence Informed Leadership; 4 Moving Towards Shared Understandings in Complex Educational Settings; 5 Confronting Taken-for-Granted Ways of Thinking and Doing that Limit Change; 6 Ethical Frameworks for Developing Evidence Informed Leadership; 7 Practical Cases Where Evidence Informed Leadership Enhanced Educational Opportunities While Meeting the Social Justice Agenda of Educational Policies

8 Evidence Informed Leadership Takes Time Because It MattersIndex

Sommario/riassunto

In the past three decades politicians, journalists, researchers within the academy, and neo-liberalist critics of state schools have articulated that educational research is neither meaningful nor worthwhile. Yet empirical evidence has revealed that research plays a key role in informing decisions made by educational leaders. This book explores the tools needed to conduct ethical educational research, and the contribution postgraduate research might make to the training and development of educational leaders and their thinking and practice within educational settings. Recent debates position t