1st Edition

Passionate Principalship Learning from the Life Histories of School Leaders

Edited By Ciaran Sugrue Copyright 2005
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

This book puts 'real life' back into the literature on school principalship. Through a life history approach, it portrays daily life in schools as a much more messy, contested and precarious existence, where principals struggle with passionate commitment to find continuity amongst frequently changing and often conflicting policy initiatives. The book draws on comprehensively in-depth interview... Read more
Introduction, Ivor Goodson Section 1: Passionate Principalship 1. Putting 'Real Life' into School Leadership: Connecting Identities, Leadership and Life History, Ciaran Sugrue Section 2: People in Principalship: Stories of Engaged Selves 2. Sustained Motivation Embedded in Place: Living with Accountability and Mandated Change, Colin Biott and John Spindler 3. Old Metaphors, New Meanings: Being a Woman Principal, Jorunn Møller 4. Memberships and Relationships in a Changing Context, Lejf Moos 5. Creating Continuity through Change: Comfort with Uncertainty, Ciaran Sugrue Section 3: Passionate Principalship: Learning from Life Histories 6. Coping with Accountability - Tensions between Reason and Emotion, Jorunn Møller 7. Regulation and Trust: Negotiating Relationship, Lejf Moos 8. Immediacy and Distance: Inter-generational Professional Learning, John Spindler and Colin Biott 9. Being Principal: Leadership Inside Out, Ciaran Sugrue Section 4: Beyond Passion in Principalship 10. Principalship: Beyond Pleasure, Pain and Passion, Ciaran Sugrue

Biography

Ciaran Sugrue, Professor Ivor Goodson