Advocacy for Teacher Leadership Opportunity, Preparation, Support, a
This book advocates for an alternative to the hierarchical positioning of leaders. It proposes to value leadership practices which emerge from collective concerns about learning and the realisation that collegial interactions offer opportunities for rich
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Advocacy for Teacher Leadership Opportunity, Preparation, Support, and Pathways
Advocacy for Teacher Leadership
Susan Lovett
Advocacy for Teacher Leadership Opportunity, Preparation, Support, and Pathways
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Susan Lovett School of Educational Studies and Leadership University of Canterbury Christchurch New Zealand
ISBN 978-3-319-74429-2 ISBN 978-3-319-74430-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74430-8
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Foreword
Dilemmas, Professional Growth and Career Trajectories Susan Lovett might have entitled this book An Escape from Management, Accountability, and Compliance, and a retreat from ‘reporting up the hierarchy’. But so embedded in thinking and practice are these tribal rituals that it is difficult to challenge what the great Alfred North Whitehead once described as ‘inert ideas’— too embedded, too institutionalised, too powerful, to challenge or rethink. Or are they? This work might be described as a critical autobiography, the broader narrative informed by Susan’s own experience and her own research endeavours in New Zealand. International studies are counterpointed with first-hand accounts from teachers—their dilemmas, professional growth and career trajectories. Interviews with school staff illustrate the deeply embedded assumptions about who leads and who follows. Such mindsets have been characterised by Senge (1990) as ‘organisational learning disabilities’, the first and most disempowering of which is ‘the way we do things round here’. Teachers interviewed f
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