The practices of school middle leadership : leading professional learning /: leading professional learning. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Grootenboer.
• Authors: Grootenboer, Peter
• Contents: Intro; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. Introduction to Middle Leading; Who Are Middle Leaders?; Leading for Learning; Education; The Site of Education; Leading and the Classroom; Leading in the Middle; The Nature of Leading in the Middle; Previous Studies into Middle Leading; Review of Research on Department Heads; Middle Leading as Complex; Middle Leading Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities; Professional Development for Middle Leading; The Impact of Middle Leading; Overview of the Book; References; 2. Theories and Models of Educational Leadership. Models and Theories of Leadership; Shared and Collaborative Understandings of Leading; Distributed Leadership; Critique of Distributed Leadership; Dispersed Leadership; Hybrid Leadership; Transformational Leadership; Generative Leadership; Curriculum and Instructional Leadership; Critiques of Instructional Leadership; Implications for Middle Leading; Summary and Conclusions; References; 3. Practice Philosophy and Theories; Practices; Practice Architectures; Ecologies of Practices; Education Complex of Practices; Discussion of a Practice Approach; Practices as Prefigured but not Preordained. Enabling Practice Architectures; Practice Theory and Dualisms; Concluding Comments; References; 4. Investigating Middle Leading; Project 1: Self-directed Professional Development; Context; Action Research; The Project; Data Collection; Project Outcomes; Project 2: Teacher Appraisal; Context; Conceptions of Appraisal; The Project; Project 3: Action Learning and Curriculum Leadership; Context; The Project: Action Learning; Project Outcomes; Project 4: Leading and Learning: Developing Ecologies of Educational Practice; Context; The Project; Project Outcomes; Project 5: Securing Sustainable Change. Context; The Project; Project Outcomes; Concluding Comments; References; 5. The Practices of Middle Leading; The Practice of Educational Leading; The Practice of Educational Middle Leading; The Sayings, Doings, and Relatings of Middle Leading; Practices of Leading in the Middle; Leading-Teaching; Managing and Facilitating; Collaborating and Communicating; Initiating, Developing and Sustaining Communicative Spaces; Collaboration in Silos; Conclusions; References; 6. Middle Leading Within Practice Architectures; Middle Leading as a Prefigured Practice; Cultural-Discursive Arrangements. Shared Language; Job Descriptions and Performance Criteria; Material-Economic Arrangements; Time; Timetables; Buildings, Classrooms and Teaching Spaces; Social-Political Arrangements; Relational Structures; Principal's Leading Practice Enabling and Constraining Middle Leading Practices; Secondary Schools; Trust; Staff Meetings; Enabling Practice Architectures; References; 7. The Ecological Arrangement of Middle Leading Practices; The Ecology of Practices and Practice Architectures; Capra's Ecological Principles and Middle Leading Practices; Ecologies of Practices: A Case.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 196 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 371.2; Educational leadership; Middle managers; EDUCATION -- Administration -- General; EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions; Educational leadership; Middle managers; Schulentwicklung; Schulleitung; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811307683; 9811307687
• Related ISBNs: 9789811307669; 9811307660
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 14, 2018).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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