Changing Leadership for Changing Times (Changing Education.) - Softcover

Leithwood, Ken

9780335195220: Changing Leadership for Changing Times (Changing Education.)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335195229 ISBN 13: 9780335195220

Publisher: Open University Press, 1999

Envisioning the nature of schools of the future is more art than science. But the response of schools to challenges presented by such forces as technology, changing demographics, and government austerity offer useful clues. As a minimum, schools need to be able to thrive on uncertainty, have considerably greater capacities for collective problem solving than they do, and meet a wider array of student needs. This volume examines the type of leadership that are likely to be productive in creating and sustaining such schools. Based on a long term study of transformational leadership in school restructuring contexts, the chapters offer an account of such leadership grounded in a substantial body of evidence.

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About the Author:

Dr. Leithwood is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at OISE/University of Toronto. His research and writing concerns school leadership, educational policy and organizational change. Dr. Leithwood has published more than 70 referred journal articles, and authored or edited more than thirty books. For example, he is the senior editor of both the first and second" International Handbooks on Educational Leadership and Administration "(Kluwer Publishers, 1996, 2003). His most recent books (all with Corwin Press) include "Leadership With Teachers' Emotions In Mind "(in press), "Making Schools Smarter" (3rd edition, 2006) and "Teaching for Deep Understanding "(2006). Among his current research projects is a large, five-year, Wallace Foundation study, with colleagues, aimed at determining how state, district and school-level leadership influences student learning. Dr. Leithwood is the recent recipient of the University of Toronto's "Impact on Public Policy" award.

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