Educational Leadership

"The field of educational psychology draws from a variety of diverse disciplines including: human development across the life span, measurement and statistics, learning and motivation and teaching. Within these different disciplines, many other fields are featured including psychology, anthropology, education, sociology, public health, school psychology, counselling, history and philosophy."

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Section I: The Tradition in Educational Leadership: Where We Have Come From & Where We Are Going -- Section II: Understanding & Working Successfully with the Rich Racial & Ethnic Diversity within U.S. Schools -- Section III: Understanding & Working Successfully with the Rich Language, Cultural, Social Class, Ability, Gender, & Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity Diversity in U.S. Schools -- Section IV: Research on Equitable & Excellent Schools: Lessons for Leadership Practice -- Section V: Critical Issues for Successful Schooling of All Students -- Section VI: Promoting the Preparation of Successful Leaders for Diverse, Equitable Schools

"The Handbook of Research on Ethical Challenges in Higher Education Leadership and Administration is a cutting-edge research publication that examines leadership ethics that higher education institutions must employ to be proactive, visionary, and ethically sound. The publication covers the importance of leadership ethics in higher education as well as the foundation for developing frameworks in which to ground the presence of leadership ethics in higher education. Featuring a wide range of topics such as distance education, free speech, and leadership, this book is ideal for librarians, academicians, administrators, researchers, education professionals, policymakers, and students."

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"The Handbook of Research on the Education of School Leaders brings together empirical research on leadership preparation and development to provide a comprehensive overview and synthesis of what we know about preparing school leaders today. With contributions from the field's foremost scholars, this new edition investigates the methodological foundations of leadership preparation research, reviews the pedagogical and curricular features of preparation programs, and presents valuable insights into the demographic, economic, and political factors affecting school leaders."

"The Handbook of School Mental Health offers ways for professionals to maximize resources, make and strengthen valuable connections, and attain more effective school-based services and programming. At the same time, the Handbook provides strategies and recommendations in critical areas, such as workforce development, interdisciplinary collaborations, youth/family engagement, consultation, funding, and policy concerns, summarizes the state of current research, and offers directions for further study."

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"This authoritative handbook examines the community, district, and teacher leadership roles that affect urban schools. It will serve as a foundation for pedagogical and educational leadership practices that foster social justice, equity, and advocacy for those who have been traditionally and historically underserved in education. The handbook's ten sections cover topics as diverse as curriculum, instruction, and educational outcomes; gender, race, and class; higher education; and leadership preparation and support."

Part I: Conceptualizing Social Justice: More Than a Definition -- Part II: Approaches to Knowing/Studying Social Justice -- Part III: Leadership for Social Justice -- Part IV: Advocacy/Advocates for Social Justice -- Part V: Socio-Cultural Representations of Social Injustices -- Part VI: Glocal Policy Interventions -- Part VII: Leadership Preparation as Intervention

pt. 1. Major themes in leadership for learning : an international perspective -- pt. 2. Theoretical & contextual frameworks for leadership for learning -- pt. 3. System & policy issues on leadership for learning -- pt. 4. Educating school leaders for leadership for learning -- pt. 5. Implementing leadership for learning : the role of the school leader -- pt. 6. Changing hearts & minds : building leadership for learning in current school leaders -- pt. 7. Spreading the task : including others in leadership for learning -- pt. 8. From people learning to organisational learning : building capacity -- pt. 9. Responding to diversity : different ways of moving towards leadershiop for learning -- pt. 10. Afterword : what have we learned?

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Secton I. The school administration: Becoming a more powerful leader through shared leadership -- A bountiful garden -- A leader of leaders -- section II. The teacher as leader: Who are teacher-leaders? -- Where & how teacher-leaders lead -- Learning to lead -- section III. The leader of leader culture: Shaping school culture : we don't know what we don't know -- School climate & culture -- Building sustainability -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Suggested reading for those interested in additional study about high-performance work systems -- Appendix B. Commission on Effective Teachers & Teaching -- Appendix C. Teacher Leadership Exploratory Consortium -- Appendix D. Model standards for teacher leadership

"The world's systems of higher education (HE) are caught up in the fourth industrial revolution of the twenty-first century. Driven by increased globalization, demographic expansion in demand for education, new information and communications technology, and changing cost structures influencingsocietal expectations and control, higher education systems across the globe are adapting to the pressures of this new industrial environment. To make sense of the complex changes in the practices and structures of higher education, this Handbook sets out a theoretical framework to explain what higher education systems are, how they may be compared over time, and why comparisons are important in terms of societal progress in an increasingly interconnected world."

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"Split into two sections, the first explores a range of policy concepts, theories and methods including governance models, policy instruments, institutionalism and organizational change, new public management and multi-level governance. The second section addresses salient themes such as institutional governance, funding, quality, employability, accountability, university rankings, widening participation, gender, inequalities, technology, student involvement and the role of higher education in society."

"This encyclopedia brings together the many strands of action research and addresses the interplay between these disciplines by presenting a state-of-the-art overview and comprehensive breakdown of the key tenets and methods of action research as well as detailing the work of key theorists and contributors to action research."

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pt. I: Multiple Lenses of Democratic Leadership -- pt. II: Management, Organization, & Law -- pt. III: Educational Politics & Policy: Creating Effective, Equitable, & Democratic Schools -- pt. IV: Theories of Leadership: Research Problems & Practices -- pt. V: Micropolitics of School Leadership

"An authoritative guide to educational supervision in today's complex environment, The Wiley Handbook of Educational Supervision offers a comprehensive resource that explores the evolution of supervision through contributions from a panel of noted experts. The text explores a wealth of topics including recent and dramatic changes in the complex context of today's schools. This important resource: Describes supervision in a historical context; Includes a review of adult learning and professional community; Reviews new teacher preparation and comprehensive induction systems; Contains perspectives on administrative feedback, peer coaching and collaboration; Presents information on professional development and job-embedding learning; Examines policy and implementation challenges in teacher evaluation."

"The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Leadership brings together contributions from authors in twenty-one countries, spanning six continents. Topics examined include leadership and aesthetics, creativity, eco-justice, advocacy, Big Data and technology, neoliberalism, emerging philosophies and theories, critical democracy, gender and radical feminism, political economies, emotions, postcolonialism, and new directions in higher education."