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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785371903321

Autore

West-Burnham John <1946->

Titolo

Rethinking educational leadership [[electronic resource] ] : from improvement to transformation / / John West-Burnham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London] ; ; New York, : Network Continuum, c2009

ISBN

1-4411-7271-8

1-282-87591-4

9786612875915

1-4411-7427-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

371.2

Soggetti

School management and organization

Educational leadership

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 (p. [135]-139) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Leadership for transformation; 2 Leadership and creativity; 3 Leadership and democracy; 4 Moral leadership; 5 Interpersonal leadership; 6 Leadership and spirituality; 7 The leader as intellectual; 8 Leading learning communities; 9 Leadership development and personal effectiveness; 10 Strategies to support transformation; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

John West-Burnham offers a radical critique of prevailing models of leadership in education, particularly models of school leadership, notably the British view of headship. For almost a generation, school leadership has been focused on the concept of improvement, within a policy context of improvement and a prevailing culture rooted in incremental adjustment rather than a fundamental reappraisal. Transformation is a particularly evocative concept; it is one of those words that it is almost impossible to raise objections to. However, as is so often the case with such words, its power is often p