New Primary Leaders
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New Primary Leaders by Michael Cowie
New primary leaders face significant challenges worldwide and this book brings together the range of those experiences and challenges for the first time. It includes interviews with primary school leaders in the early years of leadership in 12 different countries. Each chapter begins with an introduction to the principal and the local context before the principal's own description of her or his experience as a new leader. The leaders discuss how they prepared for principalship, their experiences after taking up the post, the extent to which the job meets with their expectations and their hopes and fears for the future. The final chapter provides a comparative overview, exploring new principals perceptions of key influences on schools and their communities, their reactions to the multiple, heightened and often conflicting expectations, pressures and challenges they encounter and the implications for principal preparation internationally. The voices of principals from around the world provide a vivid and authentic picture of new school leaders in different contexts at the beginning of the 21st Century.
'This book offers 12 tales of school principals from across the continents that allow you to engage, smell and almost touch the intensity and passion felt for their role and the children and fellow teachers they serveAcademic participants in an international project on early principalship, in conjunction with principals, tell the stories and succeed in providing realistic human portraits laced with biographical detail, professional formation, contextual information and insights into the complex and demanding role. Educational theories are exemplified in the daily work of these principals and their locations, aspirations, inspirations and hopes for the future. Inherent risks, stresses and uncertainties abound; these are real people and very real schools.' Jim O'Brien, Emeritus Professor of Leadership and Professional Learning, University of Edinburgh, UK.
'These vivid narratives, from the remotest Inuit outpost in Canada to East Timor communities cutoff for months on end in the rainy season, provide a compelling read. They remind us of the profound impact of context and culture on what it means to lead a school, and how little of conventional wisdom ‘travels'. In the most challenging and unpredictable of circumstances there is, however, one common theme -that leadership is a privileged opportunity to make a difference to the lives of children.' John MacBeath, Chair of Educational Leadership, University of Cambridge, UK
'These vivid narratives, from the remotest Inuit outpost in Canada to East Timor communities cutoff for months on end in the rainy season, provide a compelling read. They remind us of the profound impact of context and culture on what it means to lead a school, and how little of conventional wisdom ‘travels'. In the most challenging and unpredictable of circumstances there is, however, one common theme -that leadership is a privileged opportunity to make a difference to the lives of children.' John MacBeath, Chair of Educational Leadership, University of Cambridge, UK
Michael Cowie is Academic Co-ordinator of the Scottish Qualification for Headship in the Centre for Educational Leadership at the University of Edinburgh, UK. A former secondary school teacher, Michael was previously Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and Director of the North of Scotland Headteacher Preparation Consortium.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781441103079 |
| ISBN 10 | 1441103074 |
| Titel | New Primary Leaders |
| Autor | Michael Cowie |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2011-10-13 |
| Seitenanzahl | 256 |
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