Understanding School Leadership
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Understanding School Leadership by Peter Earley
By giving a detailed picture of the rapidly developing field of educational leadership, this book focuses on how to become a more effective manager and on understanding the vital importance of the managers role in school improvement.
`This is a book packed with ideas and insightsIt is informed by evidence from school leaders and provides a valuable overview of many important theories and research findings. A strength of the book is the way it pulls together empirical research the authors have conducted over the last 20 years. Such a long term view offers a new and needed long term perspective on school leadership and enables the authors to show how trends in leaders′ careers, thinking and practice have emerged and unfolded. Researchers and practitioners alike will find something of value in this book′ - Professor Geoff Southworth, Director of Research, National College for School Leadership
′[A]n excellent, well-written, extensively referenced, empirically based contribution to school leadership thinking... Earley and Weindling offer valuable insights for all of us: serving headteachers/principles, advisory and distinct-wide policy makers and aspiring headteachers′ - Journal of Educational Administration
Dick Weindling was previously Head of Educational Management at the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), and then a freelance educational researcher. He is now a full-time writer and historian. Marianne Colloms has a PhD from London University, where she explored aspects of London's Victorian history. She has co-authored a number of books on Camden with Mr. Weindling. Together they have written six books and many articles on the area's history. Both live in London.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780761943716 |
| ISBN 10 | 0761943714 |
| Title | Understanding School Leadership |
| Author | Peter Earley |
| Series | Published In Association With The British Educational Leadership And Management Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2004-09-28 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |