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Sustainable school leadership : portraits of individuality /
"We live in a complex age, with multiple challenges to the practice of educational leadership, and where there is widespread evidence of individuals wanting to retire early from leadership positions, and of fewer wishing to take up the role. This highly experienced team of cross-cultural resear...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Introduction; Chapter 1: Leadership Sustainability: Meanings and Threats; Introduction; Is this important, and if so, why?; Prescriptive and descriptive meanings of sustainability; Threats to sustainability; Conclusion: Do we only want certain kinds of leaders to be sustainable?; CHAPTER TWO; Sustainability and the 'Wicked' Reality of Educational Leadership; Chapter 2: Sustainability and the 'Wicked' Reality of Educational Leadership; Introduction; A fabled golden past?; New regimes, new demands.
- An unrealizable need for certaintyThe tame and the wicked; The limitations of the tame, the embrace of the wicked; Leadership sustainability in a wicked world; Conclusion: From conceptualizing to investigating the wicked reality of individual leadership; CHAPTER THREE; A Window into Understanding Leadership Sustainability; Chapter 3: Portrait Methodology: Window into Understanding Leadership Sustainability; Introduction; The distinctiveness of this variation; Constructing the methodology; Producing a written portrait; The range of portrait uses so far; Benefits of this approach.
- Leadership and confidentialityConclusion; Part 1: The Micro-Context of Sustainability; Chapter 4: Individuality and Leadership Sustainability; Introduction; Tensions in policy imperatives for leadership; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Leadership, Challenges and Resilience in Two Cultures; Introduction; The 'Harry C.' portrait; The 'Emily W.' portrait; Conclusion; Part 2: The Meso-Context of Sustainability; Chapter 6: The Singular Contexts of Organizations; Introduction; The three organizational elements to be examined; Introduction; Organizational forms and personal sustainability.
- Organizational focusThe control of organizational discourse; Discourse control and the loss of sustainability; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Locating Personal Sustainability within Two Organizational Contexts; Introduction; The organizations; Organizational forms in the two organizations; Sustainability in the two organizations: Forms and focus; Discourse and sustainability in the two organizations; Threats, support and improvement to organizational sustainability; Individual sustainability: Threats, support and improvement; Conclusion: Locating the micro- and meso- within macro-contexts.
- Part 3: Macro-Contexts of SustainabilityChapter 8: Cultural Influences On Leadership Sustainability; Introduction; Defining 'culture'; Western and Asian philosophical inheritances and cultural differences; Issues of cognition; Independence and interdependence; Implications for educational leadership; Cultural differences and leadership sustainability; Possible remedies; East Asian cultural threats to leadership sustainability?; Conclusion; Chapter 9: Patterns of Individual Responses to Challenges Across Two Cultures; Introduction; Educational leaders' attitudes and responses to legislation.