Education in the balance
Subtitle: mapping the global dynamics of school leadership
By: Raphael Wilkins
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781780936826; 9781780937793; 9781780937799; 9781780936741
Subjects: Educational leadership; Cross-cultural studies; Case studies; Comparative education; EDUCATION / Comparative; EDUCATION / Leadership
Description: "Education in the Balance explores the significant choices and opportunities for the future development of schools and school systems internationally, including case studies in Pakistan and India, Colombia, Saudi Arabia and China. It draws attention to the increasing reliance on the judgements of leaders in a wide range of settings: schools, private companies and NGOs to choose options which, cumulatively, will have profound implications for the future of education. What knowledge, skills and attributes will these new leaders of education need, and how can they be developed? Raphael Wilkins maps out these issues, drawing on his extensive first had experience as an international consultant in education leadership"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations1 Where is education going?2 Places and spaces of school leadership3 International perspectives and global reach4 Pedagogies of access and inclusion5 Leading communities as educational infrastructures6 Innovation within spatial power dynamics7 Evidence, Beliefs, Culture and Power 8 Towards a pedagogy of global school leadership9 Global school leadership developmentReferencesIndex.