Leadership in post-compulsory education / / Marian Iszatt-White ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.2/011
• Soggetto topico: Educational leadership; Post-compulsory education
• Altri autori: Iszatt-WhiteMarian
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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 iss
• Titolo autorizzato: Leadership in post-compulsory education
• ISBN: 1-283-06669-6; 9786613066695; 1-4411-3259-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810306803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II