The challenges of educational leadership : values in a globalized age / / Mike Bottery

• Autore: Bottery Mike
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Paul Chapman, 2004; London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : Paul Chapman, , 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 228 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.2'011
• Soggetto topico: Educational leadership; Leadership
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Chapter 1 - The book's intentions; Chapter 2 - Shifting frames of reference: the need for ecological leadership; Chapter 3 - The global challenge; Chapter 4 - The impact of commodification and fragmentation; Chapter 5 - The impact of standardization and control; Chapter 6 - The impact on trust; Chapter 7 - The impact on truth and meaning; Chapter 8 - The impact on identity; Chapter 9 - Learning communities in a world of control and fragmentation; Chapter 10 - Professionals at the crossroads ; Chapter 11 - Models of educational leadershipBibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The author presents critical issues about the purposes of educational leadership. He examines how 'official' concepts of leadership are driven by demands which are not always to the educational, political, or social benefit of practitioners.
• Titolo autorizzato: The challenges of educational leadership
• ISBN: 1-4129-0081-6; 1-280-37100-5; 9786610371006; 1-4129-3145-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808079403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Leading teachers, leading schools.