Middle Leadership in Schools by Peter Grootenboer

Middle Leadership in Schools by Peter Grootenboer

This book focuses on the practices of middle leaders in schools and other educational institutions. It positions the middle leader as a critical curriculum- and professional-leader and provides a conceptual framework within which to understand middle leading and the conditions that shape it in practice.

This is the book I have missed! You know that you have missed some books, the first time you read themFor me this is such a book. From my experiences of having worked as a middle leader for teacher development for the last two decades, I am more convinced than ever that for professional and school-based development to be sustained means recognising the interplay between teachers’ past, present and the future practices. This means that professionals, like middle leaders, need methods, models and theories that help them to develop the competencies needed to do this work. This guidance and support is presented in this book.

Dr Lisbeth Gyllander Torkildsen, Director of Quality and Development Department, Malmö, Sweden.

Middle leaders are the silent, at times overlooked leaders and administrators of professional learning and classroom practice. This book places them at the centre of the action in schools, as agents of professional learning who lead practice through action research. They are the players and the risk takers. This book is rich with vignettes that provide us with the evidence of practice we need as researchers and practitioners to celebrate the importance of middle leading in the life of the school. Unpacking these rich examples of practice using the theory of practice architectures, with additional resources, Grootenboer, Edwards-Groves and Rönnerman show us how and why middle leading matters, and what to do next.

Dr Christine Grice, Christine Grice, Lecturer, Educational Leadership Sydney School of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Australia

Peter Grootenboer was a school teacher and middle leader for 12 years before moving into the tertiary sector. He received a national Jim Campbell Award for teaching excellence. He is now a Professor in Education at Griffith University.

Christine Edwards-Groves is Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She researches classroom interaction, dialogic pedagogies and professional learning, and is especially interested in practice theory.

Karin Rönnerman is a professor in Education at the University of Gothenburg. Her research is in the field of action research connected to professional learning and development of practices through middle leading.

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ISBN 13	9780367459987
ISBN 10	0367459981
Title	Middle Leadership in Schools
Author	Peter Grootenboer
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2020-03-31
Number of pages	170
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