The educational leadership challenge
Subtitle: redefining leadership for the 21st century
By: prepared by the Society's Board of Directors ; edited by Joseph Murphy.
Contributors: Murphy, Joseph, ed.; National Society for the Study of Education.
Series: One hundred-first yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education -- pt.1; Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education -- 101st, pt.1
Publisher: NSSE; Distributed by University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Educational leadership; Education -- Philosophy; School management and organization; School superintendents
Description: Part I of the National Society for the Study of Education's 101st yearbook explores the changing context of educational leadership in the twenty-first century through the lenses of school improvement, social justice, and democratic community. Authors discuss topics such as leadership roles for teachers, principals, and superintendents; rethinking professional development for school leaders; school improvement processes for building instructional capacity; and the evolving role of leadership in education over time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section one: building the foundation for understanding and action. Understanding the evolving concept of leadership in education: roles, expectations, and dilemmas; title: Section two: understanding the challenges of school and district leadership at the dawn of a new century. The contextual terrain facing educational leaders; title: Unpacking the challenges of leadership at the school and district level; title: Section three: reculturing the profession. Reculturing the profession of educational leadership: new blueprints; title: School improvement processes and practices: professional learning for building instructional capacity; title: Leadership for democratic community in schools; title: Leadership for social justice; title: Section four: reshaping leadership in action. Building leadership into the roles of teachers; title: Reshaping the role of the school principal; title: Shifts in the discourse defining the superintendency: historical and current foundations of the position; title: Repositioning lay leadership: policymaking and democratic deliberation; title: Section five: recasting the development of school leaders. Preparing school leaders for school improvement, social justice, and community; title: Rethinking the professional development of school leaders.