02687nam 2200553Ia 450 991079199360332120230725021303.01-283-06669-697866130666951-4411-3259-7(CKB)2560000000072277(EBL)683406(OCoLC)713025939(SSID)ssj0000538454(PQKBManifestationID)12193363(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538454(PQKBWorkID)10559706(PQKB)11212289(MiAaPQ)EBC683406(EXLCZ)99256000000007227720110106d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLeadership in post-compulsory education[electronic resource] /Marian Iszatt-White ... [et al.]London ;New York Continuumc20111 online resource (208 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4411-5618-6 1-4411-5699-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; 1 Introduction: The Practice of Leadership; 2 The Trouble with Leadership; 3 The Art of Purposeful Hanging Around: An Ethnomethodologically-Informed Ethnography; 4 Leadership as Mundane Work; 5 Leadership as Presentation, Production and Performance; 6 Technologies of Leadership: The Medium and the Message; 7 Leadership: Success and Failure; 8 Conclusion: Reflections and Cautionary Tales; Notes; References; IndexThe issue of leadership, the need for good, insightful and decisive leaders is a prominent theme in Education. Yet few can define exactly what leadership is. This book examines the phenomenon of leadership in post-compulsory education through the careful description and analysis of a long-term observational study of college principals at work. In contrast to other, more theoretical, attempts to understand leadership, this book develops an understanding of leadership by pointing to specific examples of what leaders actually do as they go about their everyday work of resolving organisational issEducational leadershipPost-compulsory educationEducational leadership.Post-compulsory education.371.2/011378.107Iszatt-White Marian1469836MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791993603321Leadership in post-compulsory education3681423UNINA