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9781412980029

The SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership; Advances in Theory, Research, and Practice

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    9781412980029

  • ISBN10:

    141298002X

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-01-11
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

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This fully updated Second Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership: Advances in Theory, Research, and Practice offers an unflinching and comprehensive overview of the full range of both practical and theoretical issues facing educational leadership today. Editor Fenwick W. English and 30 renowned authors boldly address the most fundamental and contested issues in the field, including culturally relevant and distributed leadership; critical policy and practice issues predicting the new century's conflict; the paradox of changes; and the promises, paradoxes, and pitfalls of standards for educational leaders.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Multiple Lenses of Democratic Leadership
A History of Public School Leadership
Culturally Relevant Leadership for Complex 21st Century School Contexts
Social Justice
Distributed Leadership and Democratic Community
Management, Organization, and Law
The Paradox of Change in Public Schooling and Education Leadership
Pivotal Points
The School Superintendency
The Role of Education Law in Leadership Preparation Programs
Eduational Politics and Policy: Creating Effective, Equitable, and Democratic Schools
Critical Policy/Practice Arenas Predicting 21st Century Conflict
Educational Leadership and the New Economy
Standards for Educational Leaders
Wild Patience
Metanoia in Educational Leadership
Theories of Leadership: Research Problems and Practices
The Nature of Inquiry in Educational Leadership
The Development of Leadership Thought and Practice in the United States
Exploring Aesthetic Dimensions of Leadership
The Micropolitics of School Leadership
Curriculum Leadership
Teacher Preparation and Staffing in U.S. Schools
The Gaposis Syndrome
Issues of Teaching and Learning
New Approaches for School Design
Unions, Collective Bargaining, and the Challenges of Leading
Finance, Planning, and Budgeting
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors
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