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889712
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Grootenboer, Peter
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The practices of school middle leadership : : leading professional learning /\ Peter Grootenboer.
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| Publication Statement
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Singapore :: Springer,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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1 online resource (xvii, 196 pages) :: illustrations
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9789811307683
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: 9811307687
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9789811307669
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9811307660
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. Introduction to Middle Leading; Who Are Middle Leaders?; Leading for Learning; Education; The Site of Education; Leading and the Classroom; Leading in the Middle; The Nature of Leading in the Middle; Previous Studies into Middle Leading; Review of Research on Department Heads; Middle Leading as Complex; Middle Leading Tasks, Duties and Responsibilities; Professional Development for Middle Leading; The Impact of Middle Leading; Overview of the Book; References; 2. Theories and Models of Educational Leadership.
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Context; The Project; Project Outcomes; Concluding Comments; References; 5. The Practices of Middle Leading; The Practice of Educational Leading; The Practice of Educational Middle Leading; The Sayings, Doings, and Relatings of Middle Leading; Practices of Leading in the Middle; Leading-Teaching; Managing and Facilitating; Collaborating and Communicating; Initiating, Developing and Sustaining Communicative Spaces; Collaboration in Silos; Conclusions; References; 6. Middle Leading Within Practice Architectures; Middle Leading as a Prefigured Practice; Cultural-Discursive Arrangements.
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Enabling Practice Architectures; Practice Theory and Dualisms; Concluding Comments; References; 4. Investigating Middle Leading; Project 1: Self-directed Professional Development; Context; Action Research; The Project; Data Collection; Project Outcomes; Project 2: Teacher Appraisal; Context; Conceptions of Appraisal; The Project; Project 3: Action Learning and Curriculum Leadership; Context; The Project: Action Learning; Project Outcomes; Project 4: Leading and Learning: Developing Ecologies of Educational Practice; Context; The Project; Project Outcomes; Project 5: Securing Sustainable Change.
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Models and Theories of Leadership; Shared and Collaborative Understandings of Leading; Distributed Leadership; Critique of Distributed Leadership; Dispersed Leadership; Hybrid Leadership; Transformational Leadership; Generative Leadership; Curriculum and Instructional Leadership; Critiques of Instructional Leadership; Implications for Middle Leading; Summary and Conclusions; References; 3. Practice Philosophy and Theories; Practices; Practice Architectures; Ecologies of Practices; Education Complex of Practices; Discussion of a Practice Approach; Practices as Prefigured but not Preordained.
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Shared Language; Job Descriptions and Performance Criteria; Material-Economic Arrangements; Time; Timetables; Buildings, Classrooms and Teaching Spaces; Social-Political Arrangements; Relational Structures; Principal's Leading Practice Enabling and Constraining Middle Leading Practices; Secondary Schools; Trust; Staff Meetings; Enabling Practice Architectures; References; 7. The Ecological Arrangement of Middle Leading Practices; The Ecology of Practices and Practice Architectures; Capra's Ecological Principles and Middle Leading Practices; Ecologies of Practices: A Case.
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| Abstract
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"This book uses practice theory to examine the role of 'middle-leadership'. In particular, it investigates the practices of 'leading in the middle' in the cultural-discursive, material-economic, and social-political domains - i.e., the sayings, doings and relatings of middle leading. This perspective acknowledges the ecological arrangement of leading practices in schools, and the necessity of considering the unavoidable reality of the site. The analysis is used to promote the need to view leading in the middle as a form of praxis - a morally and ethically informed practice that requires thoughtful decision-making and action in situations where the outcomes are not always clear. This book focuses on the practice of leading for those in 'middle management' positions in primary and secondary schools, such as those responsible for curriculum leadership, including senior teachers, assistant principals, and curriculum leaders. In their positions that bridge 'management' and 'the classroom' they are significant leaders in promoting and sustaining effective pedagogy for good learning outcomes, and they have to continue to provide high-quality teaching in their own classrooms, while simultaneously being a mentor, coach, supporter and evaluator for their colleagues."--
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Educational leadership.
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Middle managers.
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EDUCATION-- Administration-- General.
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EDUCATION-- Organizations Institutions.
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Educational leadership.
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Middle managers.
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Schulentwicklung
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Schulleitung
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| Dewey Classification
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371.2
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| LC Classification
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LB2806.G76 2018
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