| Record Number |
19008 |
| Location |
371.209 MUL |
| Author |
Mulford, Bill |
| Title |
The leadership challenge [electronic resource] : improving learning in schools / Bill Mulford. |
| Published |
Camberwell, Vic. : ACER Press, 2008. |
| Collation |
1 electronic text (viii, 80 p.) : digital, PDF file, ill. |
| Series |
Australian education review |
| ; no. 53, 2008 |
| General Note |
Title from title screen of PDF (viewed November 25, 2009) |
| At foot of title: Australian Council for Educational Research, ACER. |
| PSD - Professor Stephen Dinham |
| Available online at URL below |
| Bibliography Note |
Bibliography: p. 72-80. |
| Summary Note |
This review aims to demonstrate that a great deal of a school's success depends on which areas of school life the educational leader chooses to spend time and attention. Section 1 describes the three interrelated, or nested, elements of leadership. Beginning from the outside and moving inward to the core these are: school context, school organisation, and the school leader. Section 2 focuses on the school context, with reference to the forces that are currently pressing on schools, and the implications these have for schools and their leaders. Section 3 examines school organisations and looks at evolving models such as communities of professional learners. Section 4 concentrates on the school leader, questioning whether one type of leader fits all and what it means to be a successful leader. It also examines issues of leader recruitment and retention; leadership in pre-retirement, or small schools, or high-poverty communities; leader autonomy and responsibility; and new shared models of leadership. Section 5 provides a range of recommendations and the challenge to school leaders that they move beyond mere technical competence and be contextually literate, organisationally savvy and leadership smart. |
| System Details Note |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Educational leadership -- Australia. |
| School management and organization -- Australia. |
| Learning -- Australia |
| Teaching -- Australia |
| Social capital |
| Reviews of research |
| Australia overseas comparisons |
| Added Corporate Name |
Australian Council for Educational Research |
| Internet Site |
https://research.acer.edu.au/aer/2/ |
