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An Intellectual History of School Leadership Practice and Research
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.
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Future-Proof Your School
Wouldn't it be great if you could equip your school and yourself to face whatever the future might throw at you!
Schools face myriad calls on their time and creativity yet have finite internal resources to respond to them. This can result in piecemeal changes, and reactive rather than pro-active approaches. This book reduces, filters and prioritises the demands on staff energy to the central task of all schools - to achieve the best engagement of and learning outcomes for all learners (including the staff themselves).
Schools often feel constrained by their current context, their previous performance, their demographics or available staff. This book provides an holistic and effective approach to change management that is simple, engages all stakeholders, is built around the current expertise and culture of the school and, most importantly, is sustainable.
It is suitable for headteachers, senior or aspiring leaders, and those driving change through initiatives, but also individual teachers who are interested in effective practice as a route towards personal well-being and professional satisfaction.
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\To serve a larger purpose\
\"To Serve a Larger Purpose\"calls for the reclamation of the original democratic purposes of civic engagement and examines the requisite transformation of higher education required to achieve it. The contributors to this timely and relevant volume effectively highlight the current practice of civic engagement and point to the institutional change needed to realize its democratic ideals.Using multiple perspectives,\"To Serve a Larger Purpose\"explores the democratic processes and purposes that reorient civic engagement to what the editors call \"democratic engagement.\" The norms of democratic engagement are determined by values such as inclusiveness, collaboration, participation, task sharing, and reciprocity in public problem solving and an equality of respect for the knowledge and experience that everyone contributes to education, knowledge generation, and community building. This book shrewdly rethinks the culture of higher education.
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Foucault and School Leadership Research
Foucault and School Leadership Research illustrates the application of Foucauldian theory to an educational leadership research context, thus staging the ways a researcher negotiates the methodological tensions and contradictions in the conduct of qualitative inquiry within education research. The book draws on an empirical study of a multi-site school collaborative that investigates relations of power within the unfolding network among the various leadership hierarchies in school governance. The book is anchored around a narrative dramatization that the author, Denise Mifsud, crafts from her data, using the dramatic play as a medium to present her research findings so as to show rather than just tell readers about network leadership dynamics. Mifsud’s innovative use of dramatization to communicate her findings and analysis serves to problematize the representation of qualitative research, as well as to incorporate researcher interpretation and explicate the intertwining nature of theory and methodology. Through the use of Foucauldian theory, mainly his notions of webs of power, discipline, governmentality, discourse and subjectification, the research narrative critiques and problematizes traditional understandings of educational leadership. The book focuses on and demonstrates the challenging enterprise of the art of theory application in method by outlining the epistemological, operational and analytical challenges encountered, the application of Foucauldian concepts in education research contexts, and the adaptation of methodological and theoretical concerns, in addition to showing how the quality of research outcomes is shaped by social theory
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Signature pedagogies in educational leadership preparation: university academics’ practices and reflections from Türkiye
This article explores the signature pedagogies enacted by university academics in Türkiye’s Non-Thesis Educational Administration Master’s (NTEA-M) programmes, which are designed to prepare effective school leaders. Using a qualitative, phenomenological design, data were collected from 12 academics across 10 universities specialising in educational leadership. The findings reveal a range of pedagogical strategies grounded in situational, transformational and instructional leadership theories, alongside an emphasis on critical skills such as communication, problem-solving and collaboration. Ethical values, including responsibility, justice, honesty and transparency, emerged as central to the formation of leadership. The study highlights ongoing tensions between theory and practice, and it proposes actionable recommendations such as strengthening school–university partnerships and embedding field-based learning. By foregrounding the lived pedagogical choices and situations, this study contributes to the signature pedagogy literature from within Türkiye’s distinctive policy and educational context.
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