Intelligent Leadership Constructs for Thinking Education Leaders [Hardcover]

This book offers cutting edge thinking on effective leadership processes. It pulls together the thinking of 16 educators with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all of whom hold keen interests in harnessing the forces that can improve educational opportunity for students. The book is intended to stimulate the thinking of every educator who aspires to influence decision-making and to provide direction to their school, district or institution.

Effective educational leadership, while highly contextualized, is more and more recognized as a crucial input and process variable that determines to a very large extent the outcomes for educational organizations. This book pulls together the thinking of 16 educators with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all of whom hold keen interests in harnessing the forces that can improve educational opportunity for students. Becoming an effective education leader requires more than a passing knowledge of leadership theory; it also requires knowledge of what works in education and an on-going commitment to thinking about how leadership dynamics and pedagogical theory intersect within contextual realities. Intelligent Leadership: Constructs for Thinking Education Leaders is intended to stimulate the thinking of every educator who aspires to influence decision-making and to provide direction to their school, district or institution.

Chapter 1: In Search of the Elusive General Theory  John Burger ,-Chapter 2: Observations on Leadership: Linking Theory, Practice and Lived Experience  Patricia Klinck ,-Chapter 3: Change Theory as a Force for School Improvement - Michael Fullan ,- Chapter 4: What We Know About Educational Leadership  Kenneth Leithwood ,-Chapter 5: Contemporary Learning Theories, Instructional: Design and Leadership  Larry Sackney and Brenda Mergel ,-Chapter 6: Democratic School Leadership in Canadas Public School Systems: Professional Value and Social Ethic  Paul T. Begley and Lindyl%