This book offers a nuanced understanding of how two different theories of leadership can be applied to achieve better results within schools. These leadership theories Instructional Leadership and Leadership for Learning have assisted our recent understanding of school leadership. This book interrogates the theories themselves as well as their impact on education systems around the world. It also looks at how they can be practically applied to educate school leaders within their schools and beyond, building partnerships with families, schools and other community agencies serving students. In doing so, the book considers the possibility that these theories are not opposed, but two sides of the same coin. Both are underpinned by the question how do we provide the best educational experience for students?. The answer to this question will determine the way leaders go about the task of leading schools. This important book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of educational leadership, as well as educational leaders themselves.
Chapter
1. Changing Understandings of School Leadership; Tony Townsend.-
PART I. Theoretical Approaches to Leading Schools.
Chapter
2. Instructional
Leadership; David Ng Foo Seong.
Chapter
3. Leadership for Learning; John
MacBeath.- PART II. International Responses to the Theory.
Chapter
4.
Australian Considerations in Relation to Instructional Leadership and
Leadership for Learning; David Gurr.
Chapter
5. Leadership for Learning in
the US; David Imig, South Holden and Dale Placek.
Chapter 6. Leading
Learning in Schools in Challenging Times: Findings from Research in
Portugal; Maria Assunēćo Flores Fernandes and Fernando Ilķdio Ferreira.- PART
III. Responding to the Theory.
Chapter
7. Future-Ready Leadership
Development; David Ng Foo Seong.
Chapter 8. Professional Autonomy and the
Future of Leadership for Learning in Australia; Brian J. Caldwell.
Chapter
9. Leaders of Learning: Recovering the Pedagogical Role of School Leaders and
Promoting Leadership at All Levels in Scotland; Margery McMahon.
Chapter
10. Instructional Leadership Development for Principals: A South African
Context; Parvathy Naidoo and Raj Mestry.- PART IV. Practising School
Leadership: Putting the Theories into Practice.
Chapter 11. Principals as
Literacy Leaders (PALL): Leading Learning by Improving Instructional
Practices in Australia.
Chapter 12. Promoting Teacher Collaborative Learning
in Lesson Study: Exploring and Interpreting Leadership to Create Professional
Learning Community; Toshiya Chichibu, Tetsuro Uchizaki, Yumiko Ono.
Chapter
13. Creating and Leading Powerful Learning Relationships Through a Whole
School Community Approach; George Otero.
Chapter
14. The Power of Collective
Leadership for Learning; Suzanne Cridge.
Chapter 15. Leading Place-Based
Interventions to Improve Outcomes in Low Socio-economic Settings; Christopher
Chapman, Alison Drever, Maureen McBridge, Craig Orr and Sarah Weakley.- PART
V. Summary and Conclusions: What Do We Now Know About School Leadership?.-
Chapter 16. Leadership for Learning: Embracing Purpose, People, Pedagogy and
Place; Neil Dempster.
Tony Townsend is Professor of Educational Leadership at Griffith University, Australia. His research interests include leadership, school effectiveness, school improvement, and teacher education, and he has published widely on these topics.
