'This book is refreshing and distinctive.  It takes the individual as the starting-point and builds outwards from there, to the vital but often neglected interpersonal dimension and the turbulent contexts of modern education.  Vignettes help to make the theory concrete and activities bring the reader right into the frame.' - Ron Glatter, Emeritus Professor of Educational Administration and Management, The Open University and Hon. President of BELMAS Effective leadership combines organisational skills and personal qualities. Building on notions of leadership at all levels, this book contains an invaluable bank of creative ideas to help teachers already in management positions, as well as those just starting out, to reflect on their personal and leadership development. With a focus on organisational improvement and leading strategically within changing policy contexts, chapters interrogate key leadership issues such as managing people, values and context. Examples from the UK and internationally further demonstrate how to develop as a successful and sustainable leader. Content includes: ·        the influence of local and national contexts; ·        accountability; ·        working with stakeholders across boundaries and borders; ·        approaches to change; ·        becoming a strategic leader;  ·        the educational leader as researcher. This is an essential resource for practising and aspiring educational leaders and managers and students on postgraduate or personal development courses, in the UK and internationally.

Product Description: The book contains examples of how school leaders experience emotion and meaning in their daily interactions. Through stories, the reader can experience how school climate depends on the personal emotional quality of the leader, and his/her interface with other social relationships in the school...read more

Product Description: Many countries face a crisis in recruitment to the most senior positions in schools at a time when arguments rage about the best way to develop our school leaders. Focusing on leadership development in ten diverse cultural contexts, this book brings together some of the most senior commentators in the field of educational leadership development to provide a global perspective on leadership development programmes and practices...read more

This book is an essential for providers and students of postgraduate level courses in educational management resource and for leadership development provision for head teacher induction programs, NPQH and LPSH. It is also suitable for short courses and for practitioners occupying or aspiring to leadership roles in schools, colleges and other educational organizations.

Product Description: The partner to Telling Tales, this reader looks at a range of perspectives on a number of key issues emerging from the area of guidance and counselling in education. Questions of ethics, equality and impartiality and their relationship to guidance and counselling in the context of learning are explored...read more

Product Description: Taking readers through the different dimensions of leadership, and its relationship to good team work, this work deals with personal and organizational skills, alongside the more theoretical aspects of the subject. The editors stress leadership/team working as core activities in managing people...read more

Product Description: Presents an introduction to the processes and skills needed in managing educational establishments. The book offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on the key components of professional development, linking reflection and knowledge with skills and capabilities.

Product Description: This book is an introduction to educational management in practice. The 20 case studies have been selected to provide different insights into the challenges facing managers in education today. A key feature of the book is that management can be learned through the planning and execution of small-scale investigations...read more

Product Description: 'This is an interestingly eclectic selection of material on the management of change in education' - Managing Schools Today A key theme of this book is that change is not just about the creation of new policies and procedures to implement external mandates...read more