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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821811403321

Titolo

School level leadership in post-conflict societies : the importance of context / / edited by Simon R.P. Clarke and Thomas A. O'Donoghue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-05217-4

1-135-05218-2

0-203-36277-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ClarkeSimon (Simon R. P.)

O'DonoghueT. A <1953-> (Tom A.)

Disciplina

371.2

Soggetti

School management and organization

Educational leadership

Postwar reconstruction

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

The case for studying educational leadership at the individual school level in post-conflict societies -- Educational leadership at the individual school level in post-conflict societies: the broad context -- Angola: fostering teacher professionalism and safe schools -- Ghana: resolving the tensions between colonial values and contemporary policies -- Sri lanka: school leadership in the conflict-affected north and east -- Rwanda: challenges for school leadership in a transitional post-conflict nation -- Kenya: school leadership and the 2007 post-election violence -- Solomon islands: adaptive leadership strategies in schools -- Lebanon: post-civil implications for schools -- Kosovo: transitioning school leadership from conflict to coherence -- Timor-leste: the now in the not yet of school leadership -- Northern ireland: some post-conflict challenges in education -- Educational leadershp in post-new war societies: insights from the field into challenges and possibilities.

Sommario/riassunto

<P>How do different contexts influence the nature and character of school leadership?</P><P>This book is predicated on the simple, yet profound, observation that school leadership can only be understood



within the context in which it is exercised. The observation is particularly valid in relation to post-conflict societies especially when they have eventuated from new-wars. Schools in these contexts face highly complex circumstances and a level of environmental turbulence requiring different kinds of leadership from those operating in less complicated and relatively stable situations. <BR><BR>