Leading Futures: Global Perspectives on Educational Leadership

Author:   Alma Harris ,  Michelle S. Jones
Publisher:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
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9789351502555


Pages:   284
Publication Date:   December 2015
Format:   Hardback
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A first-of-its-kind book on educational leadership with a global perspective This book offers multiple perspectives on educational leadership from the viewpoint of scholars, policymakers and practitioners. It considers leadership in context and highlights the importance of cultural influences in shaping and forming leadership practices. It is primarily concerned with ‘leading futures’ and the challenges faced by leading schools and school systems in an era of fast-paced technological change. It looks at leadership practices across four different levels (system, professional, leader and learner) and explores the connections therein. The book argues that these four levels are often viewed and described independently but in reality they are inherently interconnected and integrally related. In short, this book takes a multilevel, multicultural and multicontextual look at contemporary educational–leadership practice. Through this comparative lens, it presents new ideas, knowledge and insights that would be relevant and ultimately useful to educational leaders around the globe.

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Author:   Alma Harris ,  Michelle S. Jones
Publisher:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Imprint:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9789351502555


ISBN 10:   9351502554
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements International Comparisons: Critique, Culture and Context - Alma Harris and Michelle Jones 1: SYSTEM LEVEL Leading Futures: System Transformation Who’s Afraid of PISA: The Fallacy of International Assessments of System Performance - Yong Zhao Economic Development and Competitiveness: A Primary Driver of School Reform Policy in the USA - Janet H. Chrispeels Innovative Schools and Their Role in the Education Policy Cycle in Russia - Isak Froumin and Anatoly Kasprzhak School Leadership Development in Hong Kong: Taking a Retrospective and Prospective View on Policy and Practice - Paula Kwan Movers and Shapers: Reframing System Leadership for the 21st Century - Anthony Mackay and Albert Bertani Leading System-wide Educational Improvement in Ontario - Carol Campbell II: PROFESSIONAL LEVEL Leading Futures: Leading Professional Learning Exploring the Practice of Professional Learning Communities: Case of Hong Kong Primary Schools - Nicholas Sun-keung Pang and Zoe Lai-mei Leung Principal Preparation and Professional Development in Malaysia: Exploring Key Influences and Current Practice - Corinne Jacqueline Perera, Donnie Adams and Vasu Muniandy Designing and Developing Australian Principal Certification: With the Profession, for the Profession - Louisa Rennie Networking for Educational Equity: Rethinking Improvement Within, Between and Beyond Schools - Christopher Chapman Leading Professional Learning to Improve Schools in Challenging Circumstances in Russia - Serge Kosaretsky, Irina Grunicheva, Marina Pinskaya, Alma Harris and Michelle Jones Developing Leaders for Schools in Singapore - Pak Tee Ng III: LEADER AND LEARNER LEVEL Leading Futures: Leading Learning Generation X Leaders in Global Cities: Emerging Perspectives on Recruitment, Retention and Succession Planning - Karen Edge Getting Beyond Our Fixation with Leaders’ Behaviours: Engaging with Leading Practice for Real - James P. Spillane Leading Effective Pedagogy - David Reynolds and Daniel Muijs Leading Future Pedagogies - Jill Jameson International Comparisons—Good or Misunderstood? - Alma Harris and Michelle Jones Index

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School leaders can play powerful roles in igniting student learning, but all too often policy-makers have advocated technical approaches to leadership development that are blind to the cultural and contextual dynamics of schools. Leading Futures provides the intellectual armamentarium for a refreshing contrast to this general pattern. Based upon an ambitious international study of school leadership practices-including those in under- investigated nations such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Russia-the authors provide a series of nuanced analysis in a single book that will catapult the whole field of educational leadership forward. This book is true tour de force that will be read and re-read many times by all of us endeavouring to keep abreast of the exciting new transformations in education around the world today. -- Dennis Shirley Leadership is undoubtedly one of the most important factors in producing successful and widespread educational change. But leadership does not look the same in all contexts and cultures. Leading Futures brings together scholars and writers on educational leadership from around the world to remind us that more and better comparative studies are needed that look at leadership from many angles. The editors of this book are themselves leaders of change on a global scale. Like them, this book challenges all of us to rethink all the things we thought were universally true about leadership and its effectiveness. A mustread for anyone who wants to extend their understanding of leadership beyond their own domain. -- Andy Hargreaves While it has been readily acknowledged for some time that school leaders play a significant role in educational success, their roles and quality of leadership have become even more significant in the present context of important new demands being made on schools, teachers and pupils. Significant and ambitious reform initiatives are being launched by governments globally in response to globalization's opportunities and challenges. Leading Futures is a very welcome contribution to studying leadership challenges in this new context. Drawing on an international study of school leadership, its careful attention to the interplay of culture and context throws up interesting insights, which will move the study and practice of school leadership forward in significant ways. An important new book that deserves wide readership and careful study. -- S. Gopinathan


This book is a true tour de force that will be read and re-read many times. -- Dennis Shirley A must read for anyone who wants to extend their understanding of leadership beyond their own domain. -- Andy Hargreaves An important new book that deserves wide readership and careful study. -- S. Gopinathan


Author Information

Alma Harris is Professor of Educational Leadership at the Institute of Educational Leadership, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Since September 2012, she has been the Director of the Institute of Educational Leadership at the University of Malaya (UM). In 2010–2012 she was a senior policy adviser to the Welsh Government. Professor Harris holds visiting professorial posts at Moscow Higher School of Economics, Nottingham Business School, University of Wales and the University of Southampton. She is currently Past President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and School Improvement. Professor Harris has published many books including Distributed Leadership Matters (2013), and Uplifting Leadership (2014) with Andy Hargreaves and Alan Boyle. Michelle S. Jones is Deputy Director at the Institute of Educational Leadership, UM, where she focuses upon academic development and internationalization. In 2008, she became a school effectiveness associate for the Welsh Government and subsequently a professional education adviser assisting teachers’ and principals’ professional learning in over 2,000 schools. Dr Jones has also been working with government agencies in England, Russia, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia to contribute to the design and delivery of their professional learning programmes.

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