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Initiate innovation and get things done with a guide to the process of academic change Change Leadership in Higher Education is a call to action, urging administrators in higher education to get proactive about change. The author applies positive and creative leadership principles to the issue of leading change in higher education, providing a much-needed blueprint for changing the way change happens, and how the system reacts. Readers will examine four different models of change and look at change itself through ten different analytical lenses to highlight the areas where the current approach could be beneficially altered. The book accounts for the nuances in higher education culture and environment, and helps administrators see that change is natural and valuable, and can be addressed in creative and innovative ways. The traditional model of education has been disrupted by MOOCs, faculty unions, online instruction, helicopter parents, and much more, leaving academic leaders accustomed to managing change. Leading change, however, is unfamiliar territory. This book is a guide to being proactive about change in a way that ensures a healthy future for the institution, complete with models and tools that help lead the way. Readers will: * Learn to lead change instead of simply \"managing\" it * Examine different models of change, and redefine existing approaches * Discover a blueprint for changing the process of change * Analyze academic change through different lenses to gain a wider perspective Leading change involves some challenges, but this useful guide is a strong conceptual and pragmatic resource for forecasting those challenges, and going in prepared. Administrators and faculty no longer satisfied with the status quo can look to Change Leadership in Higher Education for real, actionable guidance on getting change accomplished.

\"Glocal\" education melds the economic advantages of globalizing higher education with the benefits of incorporating local perspectives. This book explores glocal education's rationale; social, cultural, and economic foundations; key concepts; and implementation.

Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. This rich ethnographic account of highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy. “A work of linguistic anthropology that makes crucial contributions to the study of literacy and language ideologies. It is also a broadly ranging work of social theory that will be of interest to students and scholars of the postcolonial state and neoliberal governmentality in South Asia and beyond, and of activism and social movements more generally.”—Anthropological Quarterly

This [...] handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which domestic education policy is framed and influenced by global institutions and actors. [It] surveys current debates about the role of education in a global polity, highlights key transnational policy actors, accessibly introduces research methodologies, and outlines global agendas for education reform. [The book] includes contributions from [...] international [...] established and emerging scholars [...]. Each section features an [...] introduction designed to facilitate readers' understanding of the subsequent material and highlight links to interdisciplinary global policy scholarship. (DIPF/Verlag).

The Engaged University is a comprehensive empirical account of the global civic engagement movement in higher education. In universities around the world, something extraordinary is underway. Mobilizing their human and intellectual resources, institutions of higher education are directly tackling community problems – combating poverty, improving public health, and restoring environmental quality. This book documents and analyzes this exciting trend through studies of civic engagement and social responsibility at twenty institutions worldwide. This timely volume offers three special contributions to the literature on higher education policy and practice: a historical overview of the founding purposes of universities, which almost invariably included a context-specific element of social purpose, together with a survey of how these \"founding\" intentions have fared in different systems of higher education; a contemporary account of the policy and practice of universities – all over the world – seeking to re-engage with this social purpose; and an overview of generic issues which emerge for the \"engaged university.\" David Watson is Principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford. Robert M. Hollister is Dean, and Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Professor of Citizenship and Public Service in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. Susan E. Stroud is Executive Director, Innovations in Civic Participation. Elizabeth Babcock is Talloires Network Coordinator, Innovations in Civic Participation. Series Editors' Introduction Preface Talloires Declaration on the Civic Roles and Social Responsibilities of Higher Education Introduction and Acknowledgements I. University-Community Relationships: The long view 1. Historical and Geographical Perspectives 2. Types of Capital and Citizenship 3. Contemporary Drivers II. The Engaged University 4. The project 5. The profiles 5.1 Australia and its Higher Education System 5.1.1 Two-way learning: Profile of Charles Darwin University 5.1.2 Sharing knowledge: Profile of the University of Melbourne 5.1.3 A University without Walls: Profile of the University of Western Sydney 5.2 India and its Higher Education System 5.2.1 An Enlightened Woman is a Source of Infinite Strength: Profile of Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey (SNDT) Women’s University, Mumbai 5.3 Israel and its Higher Education System 5.3.1 \"Institution-wide commitment to social responsibility\": Profile of the University of Haifa 5.4 The Occupied Palestinian Territories and their Higher Education System 5.4.1 \"Education and Service for Political Change and Development\" Profile of Al-Quds University 5.5 Malaysia and its Higher Education System 5.5.1 Community Partnerships to Address National Priorities: Profile of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 5.6 Mexico and its Higher Education System 5.6.1 Cultivating ethics and citizenship: Profile of Tecnológico de Monterrey 5.7 Pakistan and its Higher Education System 5.7.1 A Unique University with a Mandate for Social Development: Profile of Aga Khan University 5.8 Peru and its Higher Education System 5.8.1 A regional leader for human and economic development: Profile of the Universidad Señor de Sipán (USS) 5.9 The Philippines and its Higher Education System 5.9.1 Volunteer Service to the Poor: Profile of Notre Dame of Marbel University 5.10 South Africa and its Higher Education System 5.10.1 Community Partnerships for Development and the Appropriation of New Knowledge: Cape Peninsula University of Technology 5.11 Sudan and its Higher Education System 5.11.1 Empowering Women as Agents of Change through Education: Ahfad University for Women 5.12 Tanzania and its Higher Education System 5.12.1 Knowledge for Development: University of Dar es Salaam 5.13 Ukraine and its Higher Education System 5.13.1 Building Civil Society: Profile of Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University 5.14 The United Kingdom and its Higher Education System 5.14.1 Open access for social justice: Profile of the Open University 5.14.2 Reinventing liberal higher education: Profile of the University of Winchester 5.15 The United States of America and its Higher Education System 5.15.1 Knowledge to Serve the City: Profile of Portland State University 5.15.2 Social justice education and research and service: Profile of Georgetown University 5.16 Venezuela and its Higher Education System 5.16.1 From education for national development to community solidarity: Universidad Metropolitana en Caracas (UNIMET) 6. Findings: Common patterns and influences III. An Engaged University Movement 7. Networks: A unifying force 8. The world upside-side down: university engagement from the South to the North 9. Implications for policy and practice Appendix 1. Institutional questionnaire Appendix 2. Field research questions Acronyms References Notes on Contributors Index

This book investigates how governance at different levels can improve access to education for excluded communities.  It conceptualises turbulence, empowerment, and marginalisation in international educational governance systems, and presents a comparative analysis of five nation states (England, Arabs in Israel, Northern Ireland, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States). From these carefully-selected case studies, readers are shown how Senior Level Leaders describe turbulence in their systems - and how they articulate both the kind of support they want, and the support they actually get at the infrastructural, resources and agency level. It shows how the Senior Leaders hope to put their track records in school improvement into action in order to mobilise school communities for Empowering Young Societal Innovators for Equity and Renewal.  Based on research that is world leading in terms of originality, significance, and rigour, Turbulence, Empowerment and Marginalisation in International Education Governance Systems is both a comprehensive investigation of the question of how systems empower key agents of change in school communities, and a practical guide to how these communities can become societal innovators for equity, peace and renewal.

In placing his argument within the context of liberal-democratic values Thiessen gives concrete examples of objections to religious schools and offers practical suggestions that follow from the philosophical treatment of the problem. In Defence of Religious Schools and Colleges bridges the gap between philosophical argument and educational practice. It will be of interest not only to philosophers and educational theorists but also to practitioners in education. Academics, policy makers, political theorists, lay-people, teachers, administrators, and parents - those who object to religious schools and colleges and those who find themselves trying to answer the objections - will benefit from reading this book.

An Intellectual History of School Leadership Practice and Research presents a detailed and critical account of the ideas that underpin the practice of educational leadership, through drawing on over 20 years of research into those who generate, popularise and use those ideas. It moves from abstracted accounts of knowledge claims based on studying field outputs, towards the biographies and practices of those actively involved in the production and use of field knowledge. The book presents a critical account of the ideas underpinning educational leadership, and engages with those ideas by examining the origins, development and use of conceptual frameworks and models of best practice. It deploys an original approach to the design and composition of an intellectual history, and as such it speaks to a wider audience of scholars who are interested in developing and deploying such approaches in their particular fields.

The author of Six Secrets of Change describes how and why the principal's role must change to maximize student achievement *** FREE Professional Development Guide Included *** Principals are often called the second most crucial in-school influencers (after teachers) of student learning. But what should the principal do in order to maximize student achievement? One of the best-known leadership authors in education, Fullan explains why the answer lies neither in micro-managing instruction nor in autonomous entrepreneurialism. He shows systematically how the principal's role should change, demonstrating how it can be done in short order, at scale. Reveals the three key roles that administrators must play in today's schools Explains how to choose the right versus wrong drivers of school success Filled with \"action items\" to help implement Fullan's program effectively Includes strategies that have been successfully field-tested in schools across the United States and Canada

This book provides a concise and comprehensive overview of the practice of coteaching, including its benefits and educational and social implications. Coteaching plays an important role in enhancing the experience and effectiveness of pre-service and in-service teachers during school experience at a time when teacher retention rates are a concern both nationally and internationally. Traditional practice in school experience, generally comprising observation followed by complete take-over of classes, has not altered in more than a century, despite significant changes in the role of the teacher, the needs of students, the learning environment and the functioning of schools. Coteaching provides a pedagogy which supports pre-service teachers more actively and promotes teacher professional development, as they work together in co-planning, co-practice and co-evaluating lessons during school-based experience. Co-teaching in Teacher Education is part of the successful Critical Guides for Teacher Educators series edited by Ian Menter.