1st Edition

Connecting Leadership and Learning Principles for Practice

Edited By John MacBeath, Neil Dempster Copyright 2009
208 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction - John MacBeath and Neil Dempster  1. What do we know about learning? - John MacBeath  2. What we know about Leadership - Neil Dempster  3. Leadership for Learning - Sue Swaffield  4.Engineering the discourse: The methodology of the Carpe Vitam LfL project - David Frost  5. Leadership for Learning Schools - Joanne Waterhouse and Neil Dempster  6. A focus on learning - John MacBeath  7. An Environment for Learning (Principle 2) - Neil Dempster and George Bagakis  8. A learning dialogue (Principle 3) - Sue Swaffield and Neil Dempster  9. Shared Leadership - Joanne Waterhouse and Jorunn Møller  10. Shared accountability - John MacBeath  11. The legacy of the Carpe Vitam LfL project: helping schools to collaborate in a climate of competition - David Frost  12. A Question of outcomes - John MacBeath and Jorunn Møller  13. Leadership for Learning: towards a practical theory - Neil Dempster and John MacBeath

Biography

John MacBeath is Chair of Educational Leadership at University of Cambridge, UK.

Neil Dempster is Professor in Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Australia.

David Frost, Sue Swaffield and Joanne Waterhouse are all members of the Leadership for Learning team at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK.

Jorunn Moller is Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway, and George Bagakis is Associate Professor at the University of Patras, Greece.