MacBeath / Dempster / Frost Strengthening the Connections between Leadership and Learning

Challenges to Policy, School and Classroom Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-16530-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten

Examining a decade of research and practice, this book makes the case for a radical reappraisal of leadership, learning and their inter-relationship in educational policy. Discussing whether policy direction is progressively constraining the professionalism and initiative of teachers and school leaders, it challenges conventional understanding and argues the case for thinking differently about the way to lead learning.

Based on the Leadership for Learning (LfL) Project, the book clarifies, extends and refines LfL principles and practices, and their contribution to ameliorating some of the difficult conditions encountered in the contemporary educational policy environment. Starting by discussing the direction and influence of current education policy and its subsequent consequences, chapters move on to explore the framing values informing the LfL Projects, particularly focussing on what they imply for commitments to social justice, children’s rights and breadth in student learning, and considering how to create favourable conditions for learning.

Identifying a disconnect between seminal principles and the nature of day-to-day practice, Strengthening the Connections between Leadership and Learning challenges school policy and practice at a national and local level. It is an essential read for postgraduate students, especially those in leadership in education, as well as for teachers and policymakers in schools.

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacBeath, John

Dempster, Neil

Frost, David

Johnson, Greer

Swaffield, Sue

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1: The Policy Challenge Chapter 2: The Backdrop to Policy Reform Chapter 3: Leadership for Learning: An Essential Narrative in a Challenge to Policy Chapter 4: Professional Integrity Chapter 5: Leadership as Practice Chapter 6: Thinking Differently about Learning and Teaching Chapter 7: Enhancing Teacher Professionality Chapter 8: Challenging Policy, School, and Classroom Practice

Über Autor(innen)

John MacBeath is Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge, UK, co-founder of Leadership for Learning: the Cambridge Network, and Fellow of Hughes Hall.

Neil Dempster is Emeritus Professor at Griffith University and former Dean of the Griffith University Faculty of Education, Australia.

David Frost was a member of the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK, for twenty years. He was one of the co-founders of Leadership for Learning: the Cambridge Network and the founder of the HertsCam Network.

Greer Johnson is Director of the Griffith Institute for Educational Research at Griffith University, Australia, and was previously a member of the Australian team on the Leadership for Learning Project.

Sue Swaffield teaches and researches in educational leadership and school improvement at the Faculty of Education. Sue is a co-founder of Leadership for Learning: the Cambridge Network.