Leadership in Postcompulsory Education
By: Marian Iszatt-White, David Randall, Mark Rouncefield, Connor Graham
Paperback | 1 December 2012 | Edition Number 1
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The issue of 'leadership', the need for good, insightful and decisive leaders is a prominent theme in Education. Yet few can define exactly what leadership is. This book examines the phenomenon of leadership in post-compulsory education through the careful description and analysis of a long-term observational study of college principals at work. In contrast to other, more theoretical, attempts to understand leadership, this book develops an understanding of leadership by pointing to specific examples of what leaders actually do as they go about their everyday work of resolving organisational issues. Instead of presenting leaders as charismatic heroes this book investigates a number of familiar, routine, aspects of everyday leadership work: how leadership is 'performed'; the various technologies - email, documents, slide presentations - involved in leadership work; the everyday management of organisational personnel and meetings; and how success and failure is defined and understood by the leaders themselves. It concludes with some suggestions of what is learned from understanding leadership as everyday work and some 'cautionary tales' for those who would become educational leaders themselves.
About the Authors
Marian Iszatt-White is a Teaching Fellow in the Management Development Division of Lancaster University Management School, UK.
David Randall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Connor Graham is a Research Fellow in the Science, Technology and Society Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore and an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Connor Graham is a Research Fellow in the Science, Technology and Society Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore and an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Lynne Sedgmore CBE is Founding Chief Executive of the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL), Director of the Higher Education Leadership Foundation and a Senior Fellow of Surrey University, UK.
ISBN: 9781441156181
ISBN-10: 1441156186
Published: 1st December 2012
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 208
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY 3PL
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 23.39 x 15.6 x 1.12
Weight (kg): 0.3
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