Developing Successful Leadership

Research has shown that school leadership is second only to classroom teaching in its effect on pupil learning. As the demands on management teams become ever more complex, this volume offers a fresh and expansive view on the challenges to be met in devel

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STUDIES IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP VOLUME 11 Series Editor Kenneth Leithwood, OISE, University of Toronto, Canada Editorial Board Christopher Day, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Stephen Jacobson, Graduate School of Education, Buffalo, U.S.A. Bill Mulford, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia Peter Sleegers, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

SCOPE OF THE SERIES Leadership we know makes all the difference in success or failures of organizations. This series will bring together in a highly readable way the most recent insights in successful leadership. Emphasis will be placed on research focused on pre-collegiate educational organizations. Volumes should address issues related to leadership at all levels of the educational system and be written in a style accessible to scholars, educational practitioners and policy makers throughout the world. The volumes – monographs and edited volumes – should represent work from different parts in the world.

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6543

Developing Successful Leadership Editors

Brent Davies University of Hull, UK

Mark Brundrett Liverpool John Moores University, UK

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Editors Prof. Brent Davies University of Hull Business School Cottingham Road HU6 7RX Hull United Kingdom [email protected]

Prof. Mark Brundrett Liverpool John Moores University Faculty of Education Barhill Road L17 6BD Liverpool IM Marsh Campus, Aigburth United Kingdom [email protected]

ISBN 978-90-481-9105-5 e-ISBN 978-90-481-9106-2 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9106-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010930169 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Brent Davies would like to dedicate this book to Harry

Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brent Davies and Mark Brundrett

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Part I 2 Developing a Strategic Leadership Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . Brent Davies and Barbara J. Davies

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3 Developing Ethical Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert J. Starratt

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Part II 4 Developing and Sustaining Leaders of Learning . . . . . . . . . . Dean Fink

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5 Developing Instructional Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philip Hallinger

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6 Developing Leadership to Improve Student Outcomes . . . . . . . Kenneth Leithwood and Linda Massey

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Part III 7 Developing Your Leadership Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Brundrett

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8 Developing Entrepreneurial Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guilbert C. H