Distributed Leadership: Different Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781402097362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 254 str.

Alma Harris

Opis

This book argues that the educational environment in many countries has shifted so dramatically and so permanently that we urgently need to re-consider what we understand by educational leadership and educational leadership practice. The book focuses on distributed leadership and focuses on the emerging evidence about the possibilities and shortcomings of this form of leadership. The book will draw upon the latest empirical findings from studies in different countries that have focused on the relationship between distributed forms of leadership and organisational change. The main aim of the book is to offer contemporary, comparative and challenging accounts of distributed leadership practice.

This book outlines current understandings, findings and limitations of the concept of distributed leadership. It brings together different international perspectives on distributed leadership as well as looking at distributed leadership through three major lenses the empirical, the interpretive and the critical.

The book aims to offer challenge, debate and critique, as well as presenting the latest empirical findings about the impact and effects of distributed leadership on organizational change. Leading writers in the field will offer contemporary analysis and reflection on the theme and will also consider the future issues, challenges and directions for distributed leadership."

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Contributors’ Notes Section 1 Setting the Scene Introduction 1. Distributed Leadership: What we Know Alma Harris Section 2 Empirical Perspectives 2. Chapter 2 Investigating Connections between Distributed Leadership and Instructional Change Eric M. Camburn and Seong Won Han 3.Taking a Distributed Perspective in Studying School Leadership & Management: The Challenge of Study Operations James P. Spillane, Eric M. Camburn, James Pustejovsky,Amber Stitziel Pareja, Geoff Lewis 4. The Relationship Between Distributed Leadership and Teachers’ Academic Optimism Blair Mascall, Kenneth Leithwood, Tiiu Strauss, and Robin Sacks 5. Distributed Leadership in Schools: Does System Policy Make a Difference? Philip Hallinger and Ronald H. Heck Section 3 Practical Perspectives 6. Capacity building through layered leadership: Sustaining the Turnaround Christopher Day 7. The Relationship between Distributed Leadership and Action Learning in schools: A Case Study Stephen Dinham Section 4 Conceptual/ Theoretical Perspectives 8. The Role of Sensemaking and Trust in Developing Distributed Leadership Karen Seashore Louis, David Meyrowetz, Mark Smiley, Joseph Murphy 9. Distributed Leadership: Democracy or Delivery Andrew Hargreaves and Dean Fink Section 5 Future Perspectives 10. From distributed to hybrid leadership practice Peter Gronn 11. Fit for Purpose: An Educationally Relevant Account of Distributed Leadership. Viviane Robinson 12. Coda Alma Harris

Blurb

This book argues that the educational environment in many countries has shifted so dramatically and so permanently that we urgently need to re-consider what we understand by educational leadership and educational leadership practice. It focuses on distributed leadership and draws on the emerging evidence about the possibilities and shortcomings of this form of leadership and draws upon the latest empirical findings from studies in different countries that have focused on the relationship between distributed forms of leadership and organizational change. The main aim is to offer contemporary, comparative and challenging accounts of distributed leadership practice.

Distributed Leadership – Different Perspectives outlines current understandings, findings and limitations of the concept of distributed leadership. It brings together different international perspectives on distributed leadership as well as looking at distributed leadership through three major lenses – the empirical, the interpretive and the critical. Leading writers in the field offer contemporary analysis and reflection on the theme and also consider the future issues, challenges and directions for distributed leadership.