The Educational Leader as Counsellor : Implications for Selection, Appraisal and Professional Development for School Leaders

ISBN-13: 9783639112016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 220 str.

Nancy Tsui Yee Yeung

Opis

This book examines the literature on leadership and counseling to determine similarities, and investigate how principals perceived their leadership role in terms of the theories of counseling and leadership. It further explores the implications for the selection, appraisal and development of principals. The literature of effective counselors and educational leaders was reviewed to find significant similarities. Principals in Sydney were involved in a Q-sort survey to prioritise the essential emphases of effective educational leaders. Interviews were carried out to cast light on the survey results. Content analysis was carried out on documents of the NSW Government and Sydney Catholic School Systems. Literature on both leadership and counseling emphasised the importance of the leader/counselor s authenticity, empathy, respect, and communication skills. Principals prioritised these counselling-related attributes after a focus on students and strategic leadership but ahead of organisation, resource management, evaluating and controlling. The book is for practising principals, educational leaders and researchers.

O autorze

Nancy T.Y. Yeung: BSoSc, PGCE, MA, PhD
Currently lecturing at HKIEd. Background in education &
counselling. PhD on Educational Leadership at UNSW, Australia.
Fenton G. Sharpe: AM, BA, MLitt, MEdAdmin, PhD, FACE, FACEL
Previously Director-General NSW Department of School Education & Professor of Education Administration, UNSW.