Catch a new vision of leadership that fosters school communities that are socially just and academically excellent with this accessible guide. It combines promising theoretical perspectives with stories about practitioners and schools across the United States, Canada, and in the South Pacific (Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand) to show how, in many varied contexts, leaders are making a difference. Good Intentions Are Not Enough, is designed to raise the awareness of all concerned citizens about how to develop schools with diverse populations. Comprehensive and research-based, this book offers...
Catch a new vision of leadership that fosters school communities that are socially just and academically excellent with this accessible guide. It comb...
This is the first and only book that examines dialogue as it pertains to the work of school leaders. The authors of Dialogue Is Not Just Talk develop a theory of dialogic leadership that bridges the gaps between the pioneering philosophical works of such seminal thinkers as Bakhtin, Buber, and Gadamer, as well as the work of educational leaders. Using examples, vignettes, and illustrations, this book develops both a theoretical and a practical approach to educational leadership. Dialogue Is Not Just Talk speaks to leaders striving to develop relationships, improve understanding,...
This is the first and only book that examines dialogue as it pertains to the work of school leaders. The authors of Dialogue Is Not Just Talk d...
The Bakhtin Primer offers a truly new and innovative approach to leading and reforming schools. It delves into some of Bakhtin's most salient concepts - chronotope, polyphony and heteroglossia, dialogue and dialogism, and carnival - and presents them as the basis for a comprehensive reform agenda - one that focuses on high levels of student achievement and on socially just and inclusive educational practice. The primer demonstrates the relevance of theory to educational practice and presents it in clear, concise language coupled with numerous illustrative examples to make the ideas...
The Bakhtin Primer offers a truly new and innovative approach to leading and reforming schools. It delves into some of Bakhtin's most salient c...
This book celebrates the promises of social justice, and provides the educational leadership research community with concrete, contextualized illustrations on how to address inequities and combat social, political and economic injustices through the education.
This book celebrates the promises of social justice, and provides the educational leadership research community with concrete, contextualized illustra...
Framed by real stories and grounded in research, the Second Edition of Transformative Leadership in Education presents an alternative approach to leadership that is engaged, active, and courageous. Noted scholar Carolyn M. Shields explores the concept of transformative leadership and its potential to create learning environments that are academically excellent, equitable, inclusive, and socially just, even in the face of a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world of education today. Chapters combine contemporary research findings with stories of schools, leaders,...
Framed by real stories and grounded in research, the Second Edition of Transformative Leadership in Education presents an alternative...
Framed by real stories and grounded in research, the Second Edition of Transformative Leadership in Education presents an alternative approach to leadership that is engaged, active, and courageous. Noted scholar Carolyn M. Shields explores the concept of transformative leadership and its potential to create learning environments that are academically excellent, equitable, inclusive, and socially just, even in the face of a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world of education today. Chapters combine contemporary research findings with stories of schools, leaders,...
Framed by real stories and grounded in research, the Second Edition of Transformative Leadership in Education presents an alternative...
This book celebrates the promises of social justice, and provides the educational leadership research community with concrete, contextualized illustrations on how to address inequities and combat social, political and economic injustices through the education.
This book celebrates the promises of social justice, and provides the educational leadership research community with concrete, contextualized illustra...
