书目名称 | Unmasking School Leadership |
副标题 | A Longitudinal Life |
编辑 | Ciaran Sugrue |
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概述 | Exposes connections between principal agency and structural constraints.Demonstrates how change becomes a continuity.Absolute necessity for leadership preparation.Includes supplementary material: |
丛书名称 | Studies in Educational Leadership |
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描述 | .This book is a longitudinal life history of the lives and work of primary school principals in Ireland. It provides a unique opportunity to peer inside the realities of leading schools in changing times. In a system that until recently did not prepare principals for the onerous roles and responsibilities, a small system with limited mobility, inter-personal relationships emerge as critical, frequently privileged over professional relationships. Consequently, principals struggle to bring about change, to build trust in order to cultivate a transformative leadership agenda, while several aspects of systemic structures and processes emerge as constraints on leadership capacity building. In the absence of comprehensive leadership portfolio development, classroom teachers, catapulted into the principal’s office, tend to be cautious and careful in ways that tend to perpetuate the status quo while putting a premium on the exercise of soft power and an over-reliance on the good will of colleagues. Several of the ‘leadership lessons’ that emerge from this in-depth analysis concur with an increasing international consensus that due to complexity and increasingly performative policy demands |
出版日期 | Book 2015 |
关键词 | capacity building; change and continuity; leadership; leadership for all; performativity; personal relati |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9433-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-024-0811-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-017-9433-6Series ISSN 1572-3909 Series E-ISSN 2543-0130 |
issn_series | 1572-3909 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 |