Download or read book Collaborative School Leadership written by Philip A Woods and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the idea of distributing leadership in schools to a new level of understanding and practice. The authors address the complexities of leadership by putting forward two essential propositions. The first is the need to understand leadership as the outcome both of people’s intentions and the complex flow of interactions in the daily life of schools. The second is the need to integrate values of social justice and democracy into our understanding of leadership. Building on this insight, the authors show how leadership can be truly collaborative. The book also combines practice, theory and research and draws on the authors’ international experience. This book is an invaluable resource for reflection and change for everyone who contributes to and studies leadership – senior leaders, teachers, support staff, students and researchers.
Download or read book Leading and Managing People in Education written by Tony Bush and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′This cutting-edge publication is drawn on international research and practice, and undoubtedly encourages reflection and personal development. The authors are experts in the field of education leadership and management.′ - Professor Raj Mestry, University of Johannesburg The Third Edition of this successful and respected book covers leadership and management of people at all levels in educational organisations. It contains up-to-date research and literature, covering the entire spectrum of educational institutions. This new and revised edition: deals with issues such as succession planning, leadership development and diversity has an enhanced focus on international trends, examples and research acknowledges the changing English context, including the shift to system leadership, academies and free schools covers changes in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland The book will be of great interest to postgraduate students, researchers and academics; candidates on professional leadership qualifications; middle and senior managers, and aspiring leaders in schools and colleges. Tony Bush is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Warwick, UK and Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. David Middlewood is a Research Fellow at The University of Warwick.
Download or read book How School Leaders Contribute to Student Success written by Kenneth Leithwood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While considerable evidence indicates that school leaders are able to make important contributions to the success of their students, much less is known about how such contributions are made. This book provides a comprehensive account of research aimed at filling this gap in our knowledge, along with guidelines about how school leaders might use this knowledge for their own school improvement work. Leadership practices known to be effective for improving student success are outlined in the first section of the book while the remaining sections identify four “paths” along which the influence of those practices “flow” to exercise an influence on student success. Each of the Rational, Emotional, Organizational and Family paths are populated by conditions or variables known to have relatively direct effects on student success and also open to influence by effective leadership practices. While the Four Path framework narrows the attention of school leaders to a still-considerable number conditions known to contribute to student success, it leaves school leaders the autonomy to select, for improvement efforts, the sub-set of conditions that make the most sense in their own local circumstances. The approach to leadership described in this book provides evidence-based guidance on what to lead and flexibility on how to lead for purposes of improving student learning.
Download or read book International Handbook of Educational Change written by Andy Hargreaves and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-05-31 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Handbook of Educational Change is a state of the art collection of the most important ideas and evidence of educational change. The book brings together some of the most influential thinkers and writers on educational change. It deals with issues like educational innovation, reform, restructuring, culture-building, inspection, school-review, and change management. It asks why some people resist change and what their resistance means. It looks at how men and women, older teachers and younger teachers, experience change differently. It looks at the positive aspects of change but does not hesitate to raise uncomfortable questions about many aspects of educational change either. It looks critically and controversially at the social, economic, cultural and political forces that are driving educational change. School leaders, system administration, teacher leaders, consultants, facilitators, educational researchers, staff developers and change agents of all kinds will find this book an indispensable resource for guiding them to both classic and cutting-edge understandings of educational change, no other work provides as comprehensive coverage of the field of educational change.
Download or read book Histoire d bat written by Carlos Barros and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector written by Jacob Torfing and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public sector innovation is important because the pressures of growing expectations from citizens, budget crunches, and a surge of complex governance problems cannot be solved by standard government solutions or increased funding. In order to innovate, government increasingly needs to collaborate with networks of partners across agency boundaries and especially with the nonprofit and private sectors to find new solutions. This interaction within a network can enhance creative and effective governance solutions. In this book, Jacob Torfing closely examines the link between network-based collaborative governance and innovation, proposes a framework for the study of collaborative innovation, and discusses this approach in light of theoretical insights from other disciplines and from examples of public innovation drawn from the United States, Europe, and Australia. This book will move scholars closer to being able to develop a theory of collaborative innovation.
Download or read book Becoming a Strategic Leader written by Richard L. Hughes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s organizations face difficult challenges in order to remain competitive—the quickening pace of change, increasing uncertainty, growing ambiguity, and complexity. To meet these challenges, organizations must broaden the scope of leadership responsibility for strategic leadership and engage more people in the process of leadership. In Becoming a Strategic Leader Rich Hughes and Kate Beatty from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) offer executives and managers a handbook for implementing a strategic leadership process that reaches leaders at all levels of organizations. Based on CCL’s successful Developing the Strategic Leader Program, this book outlines the framework of strategic leadership and contains practical suggestions on how to develop the individual, team, and organizational skills needed for institutions to become more adaptable, flexible, and resilient. The authors also show how individual managers can exercise effective strategic leadership through their distinctive and systemic approach—thinking, acting, and influencing.
Download or read book Estrategia y Liderazgo written by Jordi García Quintanilla and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El mundo ha cambiado. En nuevo paradigma que se abre paso en la era post-covid requiere de líderes audaces capaces de proponer nuevas respuestas a los nuevos retos del presente, también en el mundo educativo. Quienes no sean capaces de adaptarse a los cambios que se avecinan, no solo en el mundo general, sino también en el mundo educativo, pueden acabar siendo dinosaurios que aspiran a vivir en una era que ya no existe. Prepararse estratégicamente para el futuro es, por tanto esencial. El presente libro, "Estrategia y Liderazgo para un nuevo paradigma educativo" pretende ayudar al lector proporcionándole claves de liderazgo y estrategias eficaces para dirigir y liderar los centros educativos del futuro de forma exitosa. Se trata de un libro que es el fruto de más de veinte años de experiencia personal y profesional en distintos ámbitos, también en la dirección de centros. Para facilitar su lectura, el autor ha utilizado el fútbol como hilo conductor, a modo de metáfora. El mundo del fútbol, omnipresente en la sociedad de nuestros días, proporciona una potente herramienta didáctica para explicar de forma sencilla conceptos que no siempre son sencillos de explicar. Este libro está escrito en esa clave amena y desenfadada. Es deseo del autor que el lector disfrute de la lectura del presente libro, con la esperanza de que pueda aportarle algunas claves, estrategias y la motivación suficiente para afrontar con garantías la difícil y apasionante tarea de liderar personas en los centros educativos del futuro. Sobre el autor: Jordi García Quintanilla es profesor asociado en la Universidad Loyola Andalucía y docente en activo. Es MBA por ESADE-Loyola, Arquitecto y Consultor Educativo, Experto Universitario en Marketing Educativo. Ha sido Director de un colegio de Sevilla, profesor y educador desde hace más de veinte años, desempeñando distintos puestos de responsabilidad. También ha sido responsable de comunicación en Escuelas Católicas de Sevilla. Fruto de su experiencia en el ámbito educativo, actualmente combina la docencia con la formación de equipos docentes y equipos directivos en aspectos como la Estrategia y el Liderazgo de personas. Ha colaborado como experto en un proyecto internacional de Pensamiento Computacional y ha liderado procesos de cambio y de transformación digital en el ámbito educativo. Apasionado de las nuevas tecnologías, actualmente investiga en las posibilidades de la Inteligencia Artificial aplicada a la Educación.
Download or read book Escuelas que valgan la pena written by Pepe Menéndez and published by Paidos Argentina. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Es posible innovar en materia educativa en entornos vulnerables? ¿Por dónde comenzamos la transformación de la educación? ¿Influye en la configuración de nuestra personalidad el modo en que aprendemos en la escuela? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que nos propone este libro de Pepe Menéndez, experto en innovación educativa y uno de los ideólogos e impulsores del proyecto de transformación educativa Horizonte 2020 en Barcelona. "Debemos garantizar el aprendizaje de todos" es una de sus máximas. El mundo cambia y, en contra de lo que a menudo escuchamos en conversaciones ocasionales, la educación también lo hace. Existen numerosas iniciativas que promueven cambios en las metodologías, en los roles de alumnos y profesores, en la relación con las familias, en los propios espacios físicos. En este contexto, escuchar lo que tienen para decir aquellos y aquellas que han hecho cambios profundos en el día a día de las aulas es clave. A partir de experiencias puntuales e historias reales –como la de Albert, uno de sus alumnos, dolor de cabeza para sus maestros y sin embargo capaz de salvar la vida de su amigo Jaime–, Menéndez nos invita a reflexionar sobre la educación, con la intención manifiesta de encender un debate al interior de las instituciones educativas, en las casas y en grupos de educadores y de estudiantes. El objetivo es conseguir que el aprendizaje sea el motor de una educación más humana y acorde con las competencias de nuestro tiempo.
Download or read book Vital Notes for Nurses written by Robert Newell and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2006-07-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vital Notes for Nurses: Research for Evidence-based Practice provides a concise, accessible introduction to research and evidence based practice for pre-registration students and newly qualified nurses. It places research and evidence in the context of clinical practice, introduces the main methodological approaches in qualitative and quantitative research and describes the processes of research appraisal, dissemination and implementation. Vital Notes for Nurses: Research for Evidence-based Practice engages students with the research and evidence agenda, demonstrates the relevance of research and evidence to nursing practice, and provides them with the skills needed to explore these areas in greater detail. Each chapter stands alone but contains links to other chapters, together with further reading for students wanting to pursue methods in more detail.
Download or read book Connecting Leadership and Learning written by John MacBeath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading schools is becoming almost daily a more complex and demanding job. Connecting Leadership and Learning reassesses the purpose of schools, the nature of learning and the qualities of leadership that make schools authentic places of learning. Starting with a review of what we can claim to know – and not know – about learning, leadership and their inter-relationship, this book explores what it means to lead schools that place learning at the centre. Drawing on research from seven different country projects - including the United States, Australia and five European countries – the authors offer five key principles for practice: a focus of learning an environment for learning a learning dialogue shared leadership accountability; internal and external. These key principles have been tested by teachers, senior leaders and school students and found to be applicable across cultural and linguistic boundaries. The challenges faced by in inner city schools, whether in London or New Jersey, prove a stern test for the five principles yet, as these schools testify, they bring a new sense of hope and resolve that learning is for everyone. Based on rigorous research yet thoroughly grounded in practice, this book aims to challenge the reader with big ideas about learning and leadership, and to break new ground in thinking about where leadership and learning meet so that practitioners can see how it works in school and classroom practice. It should be of interest to all school leaders and those aspiring to the role.
Download or read book Technology Sustainability and Educational Innovation TSIE written by Andrea Basantes-Andrade and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-01-04 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of International Conference on Knowledge Society: Technology, Sustainability and Educational Innovation (TSIE 2019). The conference, which was held at UTN in Ibarra, Ecuador, on 3–5 July 2019, allowed participants and speakers to share their research and findings on emerging and innovative global issues. The conference was organized in collaboration with a number of research groups: Group for the Scientific Research Network (e-CIER); Research Group in Educational Innovation and Technology, University of Salamanca, Spain(GITE-USAL); International Research Group for Heritage and Sustainability (GIIPS), and the Social Science Research Group (GICS). In addition, it had the endorsement of the RedCLARA, e-science, Fidal Foundation, Red CEDIA, IEEE, Microsoft, Business IT, Adobe, and Argo Systems. The term “knowledge society” can be understood as the management, understanding and co-creation of knowledge oriented toward the sustainable development and positive transformation of society. In this context and on the occasion of the XXXIII anniversary of the Universidad Técnica del Norte (UTN), the Postgraduate Institute through its Master of Technology and Educational Innovation held the I International Congress on Knowledge Society: Technology, Sustainability and Educational Innovation – TSIE 2019, which brought together educators, researchers, academics, students, managers, and professionals, from both the public and private sectors to share knowledge and technological developments. The book covers the following topics: 1. curriculum, technology and educational innovation; 2. media and education; 3. applied computing; 4. educational robotics. 5. technology, culture, heritage, and tourism development perspectives; and 6. biodiversity and sustainability.
Download or read book LA INVESTIGACI N SOBRE EL LIDERAZGO Y PROCESOS DE CAMBIO EN CENTROS EDUCATIVOS written by José Manuel Coronel Llamas and published by Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Se analiza la investigación a lo largo de la década 85-95 acerca de la relación entre dinámicas de liderazgo y el desarrollo de procesos de cambio. La naturaleza organizativa de los centros, las condiciones para el desarrollo escolar y el papel de los diversos agentes educativos implicados en esta tarea, buscan un punto de encuentro y articulación conjunta.
Download or read book Innovating with Concept Mapping written by Alberto Cañas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Concept Mapping, CMC 2016, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in September 2016. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions. The papers address issues such as facilitation of learning; eliciting, capturing, archiving, and using “expert” knowledge; planning instruction; assessment of “deep” understandings; research planning; collaborative knowledge modeling; creation of “knowledge portfolios”; curriculum design; eLearning, and administrative and strategic planning and monitoring.
Download or read book Blended Learning Convergence between Technology and Pedagogy written by Antonio Víctor Martín-García and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on essential aspects of the theoretical foundations that support blended learning (BL) as a teaching training modality in tertiary education. Analyzing the changes in the world of education that lead to new ways of thinking and learning, it redefines the concept of blended learning at a time of constant growth in many universities around the world. This involves a shared reflection on the role of technology in the current university teacher education programs, as well as on the role that pedagogy plays in increasingly technology-driven contexts. Furthermore, the book presents pedagogical approaches to guide university professors in the design and implementation of blended learning courses. To this end, it describes some of the major models and approaches to BL instructional design, and examines issues related to the quality of BL training and the indicators to measure it, in order to identify those models that contribute to a better understanding of the dimensions that increase its effectiveness.
Download or read book Gender and Climate Change An Introduction written by Irene Dankelman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although climate change affects everybody it is not gender neutral. It has significant social impacts and magnifies existing inequalities such as the disparity between women and men in their vulnerability and ability to cope with this global phenomenon. This new textbook, edited by one of the authors of the seminal Women and the Environment in the Third World: Alliance for the Future (1988) which first exposed the links between environmental degradation and unequal impacts on women, provides a comprehensive introduction to gender aspects of climate change. Over 35 authors have contributed to the book. It starts with a short history of the thinking and practice around gender and sustainable development over the past decades. Next it provides a theoretical framework for analyzing climate change manifestations and policies from the perspective of gender and human security. Drawing on new research, the actual and potential effects of climate change on gender equality and women's vulnerabilities are examined, both in rural and urban contexts. This is illustrated with a rich range of case studies from all over the world and valuable lessons are drawn from these real experiences. Too often women are primarily seen as victims of climate change, and their positive roles as agents of change and contributors to livelihood strategies are neglected. The book disputes this characterization and provides many examples of how women around the world organize and build resilience and adapt to climate change and the role they are playing in climate change mitigation. The final section looks at how far gender mainstreaming in climate mitigation and adaptation has advanced, the policy frameworks in place and how we can move from policy to effective action. Accompanied by a wide range of references and key resources, this book provides students and professionals with an essential, comprehensive introduction to the gender aspects of climate change.
