| Description |
1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Defining concepts associated with school leadership and change: Renewing school renewal -- OUR BELIEF 1 -- Differentiating school renewal from school reform -- Leadership of school renewal -- OUR BELIEF 2 -- Concluding remarks on chapter -- 2. School leader leadership and the processes of leading a school renewal agenda -- School renewal -- School leadership in framing the school renewal agenda |
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School leaders' behaviours influencing the teaching and learning enterprise -- Building a sense of cohesion and Team in the school -- OUR BELIEF 3 -- 3. School leader efficacy and change -- OUR BELIEF 4 -- School leader and teacher pedagogic efficacy -- Teachers' pedagogic knowledge bases -- Student learning and teachers' efficacy -- Working with teacher self-efficacy instruments -- Teacher efficacy and change -- Putting it all together: Collective efficacy -- Concluding comments on chapter -- 4. Moral leadership guiding school change and vision setting -- OUR BELIEF 5 |
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The mission and vision as the starting point for change -- The purpose statement and pedagogy -- OUR BELIEF 6 -- The impact of a school leader's personal motivation and flow on their change predisposition -- School leader leadership and flow -- The importance of moral leadership in school vision setting -- Moral purpose and shared leadership -- What is a shared moral purpose? -- Shared leadership -- Moral leadership and authentic learning -- 5. System reforms as catalysts for school renewal -- OUR BELIEF 7 -- The system reform: Moving towards greater local empowerment |
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Advantages of a devolved system of education -- OUR BELIEF 8 -- Building classroom relationships -- OUR BELIEF 9 -- The external factors influencing classroom culture -- Pedagogy: A better way to go -- Supporting teachers -- The failure to recognise that business models give us a better understanding of what is happening in some education change models -- The illusion of autonomy -- 6. Situational factors and their impact on school leadership and change -- OUR BELIEF 10 -- Barriers to change -- Staff resistance -- Staff union resistance -- Parents -- System level barriers |
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Piggy in the middle (keep away). -- Toxic management: A culture devouring its future! -- Toxic management -- OUR BELIEF 11 -- Toxic school culture -- Toxic, reluctant managers and toxic, self-promoting managers -- Toxic culture survey -- A culture of sycophantocracy is a barrier to change initiatives -- OUR BELIEF 12 -- Leaders' Achilles' heels -- Sycophantocracy in school systems -- Developing a field guide for identifying the sycophantocracy -- What to do -- General comment on chapter -- 7. Pedagogic leadership: A view of what real school leaders do -- OUR BELIEF 13 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Towards an understanding of pedagogic leadership |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
MacNeill, Neil
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| ISBN |
9781000358339 |
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100035833X |
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