1st Edition

Leadership for Professional Learning Perspectives, Constructs and Connections

Edited By Sue Swaffield, Philip E. Poekert Copyright 2023
298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings together a collection of inquiries into the connections between educational leadership, understood as an activity that can be performed by both educators and students, and professional learning, understood as an activity undertaken by educators to improve teaching and learning within educational settings. The book is framed by two reviews of the academic literature, which... Read more

1. Introduction

Sue Swaffield and Philip E. Poekert

2. The evolving knowledge base on leadership and teacher professional learning: a bibliometric analysis of the literature, 1960-2018

Philip Hallinger and Dhirapat Kulophas

3. Leadership for professional learning towards educational equity: a systematic literature review

Philip E. Poekert, Sue Swaffield, Ema K. Demir and Sage A. Wright

4. Seeing anew: the role of student leadership in professional learning

Stephanie Hill

5. Working across time and space: developing a framework for teacher leadership throughout a teaching career

Rebecca Buchanan, Tammy Mills and Evan Mooney

6. A transformative professional learning meta-model to support leadership learning and growth of early career teachers

Fiona King and Eimear Holland

7. Cultivating a schoolwide pedagogy: achievements and challenges of shifting teacher learning on thinking

Carmel Patterson and Geoff O’Brien

8. The teacher leadership in Kazakhstan initiative: professional learning and leadership

Gulmira Qanay and David Frost

9. Understanding values embedded in the leadership of reciprocal professional learning by teachers

Susan Lovett

10. Assessing the success of teacher leadership: the case for asking new questions

Jason Margolis and Kathryn Strom

11. Dynamic structural integration: a metaphor for creating conditions to facilitate teacher-centered organisational learning

Renée Andrews, Lynda Hayes, Karen Kilgore, Michelina MacDonald and Christy D. Gabbard

12. Teacher collaboration for change: sharing, improving, and spreading

Dong Nguyen and David Ng

13. How do ecological perspectives help understand schools as sites for teacher learning?

Caroline Daly, Emmajane Milton and Frances Langdon

14. School leadership for professional development: the role of social media and networks

Samuel F. Fancera

15. Multivoicedness as a tool for expanding school leaders’ understandings and practices for school-based professional development

Carmen Montecinos, Mónica Cortez Muñoz, Fabián Campos and David Godfrey

16. Exploring school leaders’ dilemmas in response to tensions related to teacher professional agency

Monika Louws, Rosanne Zwart, Itzél Zuiker, Paulien Meijer, Helma Oolbekkink-Marchand, Harmen Schaap and Anna van der Want

17. The challenge of keeping teacher professional development relevant

Janet C. Fairman, David J. Smith, Paige C. Pullen and Steve J. Lebel

18. Leadership learning: the pessimism of complexity and the optimism of personal agency

Simon Clarke and Neil Dempster

Biography

Sue Swaffield is Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, UK. She co-founded the Leadership for Learning Cambridge network in 2001. Her university teaching and research in the fields of educational leadership, school improvement and assessment for learning build on two decades teaching and advising in state schools.

Phil Poekert is Director of the University of Florida Lastinger Center for Learning, USA. Beginning his career in the classrooms of New York, California, and Florida, Phil has led efforts in practice, policy, and research to improve student success against three critical milestones—kindergarten readiness, third grade reading, and algebra—at scale.