Educational Leadership

PART ONE: LEADERSHIP THEORIES AND VALUES An overview of the leadership discourses - Simon Western From successful school leadership towards distributed leadership - Lejf Moos The nature and specialised purposes of educational leadership - Paul T. Begley Emotional intelligence, emotional labour and affective leadership - Sam Held and Judy McKimm PART TWO: STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND MANAGING CHANGE Concepts of leadership in organisational change - Gill Robinson Hickman The nature and dimensions of strategic leadership - Brent Davies and Barbara J. Davies The strategy lenses - Gerry Johnson, Kevan Scholes and Richard Whittington The practice of leadership in the messy world of organisation - Jean-Louis Denis, Ann Langley and Linda Rouleau PART THREE: LEADERSHIP IN CONTEXT Reframing the role of organisations in policy implementation: resources for practice, in practice - James P. Spillane, Louis M. Gomez and Leigh Mesler Contextualising leader dynamics: how public service leaders endeavour to build influence - Mike Wallace and Michael Tomlinson Stories of compliance and subversion in a prescriptive policy environment - John MacBeath Evaluation, accountability and performance measurement in national education systems: trends, methods and issues - Katherine E. Ryan and Irwin Feller 'Blended leadership': employee perspectives on effective leadership in the UK Further Education sector - David Collinson and Margaret Collinson Leadership for diversity and inclusion - Jacky Lumby PART FOUR: PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATION Reconfiguring urban leadership: taking a perspective on community - Kathryn A. Riley Networks as power bases for school improvement - Tessa A. Moore and Michael P. Kelly Inter-professional work and expertise: new roles at the boundaries of schools - Anne Edwards, Ingrid Lunt and Eleni Stamou Approaches to system leadership: lessons learned and policy pointers - Beatriz Pont and David Hopkins PART FIVE: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Leadership, participation and power in the school system - Richard Hatcher The fourth way - Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley