Leadership, Capacity Building and School Improvement : Concepts, Themes and Impact (Leadership for Learning) By Dimmock, Clive Publisher : Routledge Published Date : 2012/01 Binding : Paperback ISBN : 9780415404372 BookWeb Price : AED 189.00 Availability Status : Our fulfillment centre has the item in stock. Usually dispatches within 3 working days. Language : English

 
        List of illustrations                      ix
Acknowledgements                                   xi
        List of abbreviations                      xii
  PART I Conceptualizing and contextualizing       1  (72)
  leadership
    1 Clarifying and conceptualizing               3  (19)
    educational leadership as capacity
    building: key issues of contestation
    2 New perspectives on educational              22 (15)
    leadership as a field of theory and
    practice: leaders' dispositions, school
    context and societal culture
    3 The appeal and expectations of leadership    37 (19)
    and the importance of self-efficacy
    4 Leadership as capacity building:             56 (17)
    designing schools fit for purpose
  PART II Contemporary leadership themes           73 (80)
    5 Learning-centred leadership                  75 (23)
    6 Distributed leadership as capacity           98 (17)
    building: possibilities, paradoxes and
    realities
    7 Leadership of schools as                     115(17)
    `research-engaged' professional learning
    communities
    8 Leadership preparation and development as    132(21)
    capacity building
  PART III Policy, leadership practice and         153(55)
  impact
    9 Specialist schools and their leadership:     155(19)
    an international comparison of England and
    Singapore
    10 Transformational leadership and             174(16)
    organizational change: schooling as
    preparation for twenty-first century
    knowledge-based economies
    11 Leadership as capacity building: traits     190(18)
    and dispositions, interpersonal skills,
    context and culture --- all matter
References                                         208(19)
Index                                              227