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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815385303321

Titolo

Leading futures : global perspectives on educational leadership / / edited by Alma Harris, Michelle S. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi, India : , : SAGE, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

93-5150-546-4

93-5150-256-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

371.2

Soggetti

Educational leadership

School management and organization

Educational change

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Advance Praise ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; International Comparisons: Critique, Culture and Context ; Section 1: System Level ; Leading Futures: System Transformation ; 1. Who's Afraid of PISA: The Fallacy of International  Assessments of System Performance ; 2. Economic Development and Competitiveness:  A Primary Driver of School Reform Policy in the USA ; 3. Innovative Schools and Their Role in the Education  Policy Cycle in Russia ; 4. School Leadership Development in Hong Kong:  Taking a Retrospective and Prospective View on  Policy and Practice

5. Movers and Shapers: Reframing System Leadership  for the 21st Century 6. Leading System-wide Educational Improvement  in Ontario ; Section 2: Professional Level ; Leading Futures: Leading Professional Learning ; 7. Exploring the Practice of Professional Learning  Communities: Case of Hong Kong Primary Schools ; 8. Principal Preparation and Professional Development in  Malaysia: Exploring Key Influences and Current Practice ; 9. Designing and Developing Australian Principal  Certification: With the Profession, For the Profession



10. Networking for Educational Equity: Rethinking  Improvement Within, Between and Beyond Schools 11. Leading Professional Learning to Improve Schools in  Challenging Circumstances in Russia ; 12. Developing Leaders for Schools in Singapore ; Section 3: Leader and Learner Level ; Leading Futures: Leading Learning ; 13. Generation X Leaders in Global Cities: Emerging  Perspectives on Recruitment, Retention and  Succession Planning ; 14. Getting Beyond Our Fixation with Leaders'  Behaviours: Engaging with Leading Practice for Real ; 15. Leading Effective Pedagogy

16. Leading Future Pedagogies International Comparisons: Good or Misunderstood? ; About the Editors and Contributors ; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A first-of-its-kind book on educational leadership with a global perspective