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Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World.
"Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World argues that current crises in educational policies and practice, including the recruitment and retention of educational leaders, ultimately derive from the interactions between four key challenges which also underpin current global and societ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACE
- PART ONE Describing and Identifying the Problems
- CHAPTER ONE Leading Sustainability, Sustaining Leadership
- Introduction: A leadership of pressure and paradox?
- Sustainability through the greater recognition of complexity
- Educational leadership and the evaluation of contrasting claims
- An educational leadership response
- CHAPTER TWO The Meanings of Sustainability and the Dynamics of its Decline
- Creating greater sustainability: Maintenance or change?
- Business influences on the definition of sustainability
- Sustainability and educational leadership
- Environmental influences on sustainability
- From sustainability to unsustainability: The stressing of systems
- Reaching crisis point
- What can be learnt about the sustainability of educational leadership from such comparisons?
- Conclusions
- CHAPTER THREE Tame, Wicked and Humble Leadership
- Introduction
- Living in a complex world
- The tame and the wicked
- Wicked problems
- Tame and wicked distinctions, or tame and wicked continua?
- The advent of super-wicked problems?
- Changing the nature of educational leadership
- Conclusion: Tame, wicked and humble leadership
- CHAPTER FOUR Efficiency, Sufficiency and Educational Leadership
- Introduction
- Efficiency as an unsustainable concept
- Efficiency in a wider societal role
- Sufficiency as an imperative value
- Sufficiency as a necessary but not a sufficient condition
- Sustainability, sufficiency and changing leadership values
- As many problems as answers
- or as many answers as problems?
- Reflecting on macro-problems
- PART TWO Global Drivers of Unsustainability.
- CHAPTER FIVE Cultures of Economic Growth and Consumption
- Introduction: Consumption, storage and clutter
- Economic imperialism?
- The concept of economic growth
- (a) Description or prescription
- (b) Do people always choose to consume, or are they persuaded into believing they must?
- (c) What threats are posed by making consumerism a primary personal and social goal?
- Final thoughts: Is consumption then really that good, or are there other goods more worth having?
- CHAPTER SIX Global Energy Challenges
- Introduction: Raising the flag.
- Is the challenge one of energy supplies, or one of EROI?
- How quickly are we moving from 'easy' to 'tough' energy?
- It's not what's there, it's what you can access ...
- International problems and national energy security
- The future of unconventional energy sources
- A super-wicked problem requiring a super-wicked response?
- Energy trends, climate change and educational involvement
- Energy and the impact on education
- Educational localization
- Final thoughts
- CHAPTER SEVEN Climate Change and the Assessment of Evidence
- Introduction.