The Nature of School Leadership Global Practice Perspectives
This book explores school leadership through a cross-cultural comparative lens, drawing on data from 16 countries located on five continents. The book gives a voice to both primary and secondary school principals, who discuss the nature of their work and
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THE NATURE OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP Global Practice Perspectives
Paul W. Miller
Intercultural Studies in Education
Series editor Paul W. Miller School of Education and Professional Development University of Huddersfield Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK
The book series takes as its starting point the interrelationship between people in different places and the potential for overlap in the experiences and practices of peoples and the need for education to play a larger role in expanding these discourses. This proposed book series is therefore concerned with assessing and arriving at an understanding of educational practices in multiple settings (countries), using the same methods of data collection and analysis for each country level analysis contained in each chapter, thereby leading to the production of “Cultures” [of understanding] on different topics. “Cultures”of understanding results from and leads to a deeper appreciation and recognition of educational practices, issues and challenges (a) within a country, (b) between and among countries and (c) between and among traditions and other specificities within and between countries. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15066
Policy-makers, parents and teachers in many parts of the world hold a strong belief that ‘school leadership makes a difference’. Consistent with this belief, scholars have, over the past half-century, made progress in identifying leadership practices that contribute to successful schooling. Yet, until recently, our understanding of the practice of school leadership was drawn from research conducted in a limited set of developed, English-speaking societies. While successful leadership practices identified in societies such as the USA, Canada and the UK are certainly of interest, their applicability in societies that differ substantially in terms of cultural, political and economic features cannot be taken for granted. The Nature of School Leadership represents one of the first efforts to bring together grounded descriptions of school leadership practices from a diverse set of societies. In this volume, Paul W. Miller has summarised, refined and extended our understanding of school practices. The uniqueness of this book lies in Miller’s sensitivity to describing how the success of leadership practices is linked to the ‘context’ of the schools in which they are enacted. Rather than providing readers with a menu, Miller offers a set of lenses through which leadership practices can be examined and understood. This book will be of interest to both school practitioners and scholars who wish to delve deeper into the ways in which the ‘meaning’ of successful school leadership varies with the context in which it is practised. —Philip Hallinger, TSDF Chair Professor of Leadership, Mahidol University, Thailand, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa What a pleasure it is to read a book that discusses leaders and leadership within the context of the human and natural environments
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