The educational leadership challenge
Subtitle: redefining leadership for the 21st century
By: edited by Joseph Murphy.
Contributors: Murphy, Joseph, 1949- 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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 / Ellen Goldring and William Greenfield; title: Section two: Understanding the challenges of school and district leadership at the dawn of a new century. Contextual terrain facing educational leaders / Catherine A. Lugg ... [et al.]; title: Unpacking the challenges of leadership at the school and district level / Kenneth Leithwood and Nona Prestine; title: Section three: Reculturing the profession. Reculturing the profession of educational leadership : new blueprints / Joseph Murphy; title: School improvement processes and practices : professional learning for building instructional capacity / James P. Spillane and Karen Seashore Louis; title: Leadership for democratic community in schools / Gail C. Furman and Robert J. Starratt; title: Leadership for social justice / Colleen L. Larson and Khaula Murtadha; title: Section four: Reshaping leadership in action. Building leadership into the roles of teachers / Mark A. Smylie, Sharon Conley, and Helen Marks; title: Reshaping the role of the school principal / Gary M. Crow, Charles S. Hausman, and Jay Paredes Scribner; title: Shifts in the discourse defining the superintendency : historical and current foundations of the position / C. Cryss Brunner, Margaret Grogan, and Lars Björk; title: Repositioning lay leadership : policymaking and democratic deliberation / Sharon F. Rallis, Mark R. Shibles, and Austin Swanson; title: Section five: Recasting the development of school leaders. Preparing school leaders for school improvement, social justice, and community / Dianna Pounder, Ulrich Reitzug, and Michelle Young; title: Rethinking the professional development of school leaders / Frances K. Kochan, Paul Bredeson, and Carolyn Riehl.