1st Edition
Refocusing School Leadership Foregrounding Human Development throughout the Work of the School
1. The Schooling Context of Human Development
2. Working Within the Geography of Human Development
3. Foregrounding Human Development in Professional Development
4. Human Resource Leadership within its Organizational Setting
5. The Politics of Human Resource Development
6. The Moral Dimension of Human Resource Development
7. Leaders of Leaders of Human Resource Development
8. The Organic Interpenetration of Human Development Throughout the Work of Schools: A Different Leadership Challenge
Biography
Robert J. Starratt is Professor and Chair of Educational Administration and Higher Education at Boston College. He received the Roald Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award in the field of Educational Administration, awarded by the UCEA in 2006.
"When the standardization movement has run its course, Jerry Starratt’s Refocusing School Leadership will be the shining light for a renewal of the human spirit in schools. His focus on education as the true and primary function within human development could well become our field’s signature pedagogy."
--Fenwick W. English, R. Wendell Eaves Senior Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"This exceptional book reminds us that the best leaders are deeply concerned with the human condition and that they understand the importance of building powerful relationships. This book exudes moral purpose and it draws upon the essential humanity in all of us to make a difference."
--Alma Harris, Professor and Pro-Director of Educational Leadership, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
