1st Edition

Primary School Leadership in Context Leading Small, Medium and Large Sized Schools

By Geoff Southworth Copyright 2004
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

How does school leadership differ in different sized primary schools? This book responds to the urgent need to explore how different contexts influence the nature and character of primary school leadership and shows how headteachers in different sized schools shape their leadership accordingly. Geoff Southworth draws on a trilogy of related research projects, which investigated leadership in... Read more
1. What we know about school size and leadership 2. Leading small primary schools 3. Leadership in medium sized primary schools 4. Leadership in large primary schools 5. Learning centred leadership - Influencing what happens in classrooms 6. Structures and systems in schools 7. Developing leaders and leadership 8. Overview and conclusions

Biography

Geoff Southworth is Director of Rsearch at the National College for School Leadership , University fo Nottingham.