Educational Leadership

Authoritative collection from the Open University team.

Drawing together current thinking and research by leading writers in the field, this Reader will help you to understand and critically analyse key strategic aspects of educational leadership, including:

- leadership perspectives and values

- external and internal contexts

- autonomy and accountability

- partnership and collaboration

- leading strategy and change.

The book explores major challenges for educational leaders in managing the increasingly permeable boundary between educational organisations and their external contexts and reconciling environmental expectations and internal priorities. The Reader will encourage you to positively problematize the field and reflect on current debates and issues.

This book will be an essential resource for providers and students of postgraduate level courses in educational leadership and management, as well as those involved in undertaking professional development programmes. It will also serve the reflective practitioner as personal reference when occupying or aspiring towards leadership roles in schools, colleges and other educational organisations.

Dr Maggie Preedy, Professor Nigel Bennett and Dr Christine Wise have taught, researched and published widely in the field of educational leadership and management. Maggie Preedy and Christine Wise are Senior Lecturers in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at The Open University, UK. Nigel Bennett is Emeritus Professor of Leadership and Management in Education at The Open University.

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