1st Edition
School Leadership in Diverse Contexts
1. The Case for Investigating School Leadership Simon Clarke and Tom O’Donoghue 2. School Leadership and the Need to take Context Seriously Simon Clarke and Tom O’Donoghue 3. Leading Small, Remote Schools: Dealing with Isolation and the Community Karen Star 4. Leading High Poverty, Urban Schools: Dealing with Economic, Emotional and Social Challenges Bruce Barnett 5. Leading Multi Ethnic Schools: Constructing and Nurturing an Inclusive School Culture Jim Ryan 6. Leading Exclusive, Private Schools: Dealing with Complex Governance, Financial Difficulties and the Relentless Pressure to Achieve Ralph Townshend 7. Leading Faith Based Schools: Developing a School Ethos that is Conducive to the Religious Faith Tony Kelly 8. Leading Schools in Circumstances Attributable to Conflict and Trauma Gilbert Karareba, Tom O’Donoghue and Simon Clarke 9. Leading Indigenous Schools: Dealing with Language, Culture, Health, Attendance, Racism, and Family and Peer Relationships Fiona Walton 10. Leading Autonomous, State Schools: Dealing with the Tension between Enhanced Autonomy and Increased Accountability Chris Chapman 11. Leading International Schools: Dealing with Diverse Cultures, Rapid Turnover of Students and Staff and Occasionally Isolation Allan Walker 12. Explanatory Synthesis Simon Clarke and Tom O’Donoghue
Biography
Simon Clarke is Professor and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Education, The University of Western Australia, Australia.
Tom O'Donoghue is Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia, Australia.
"Advocating intentional sensitivity within educational systems to 'situational contexts,' 'professional contexts,' 'material contexts,' and 'external contexts,' all of which encompass schools' history, intake (student/constituent sources), and setting in shaping respondent leadership roles, this text makes a case that education administrators should consider and respect the environmental influences surrounding individual school systems, rather than attempt to force artificial and universal forces of conformity (in the spirit of post-colonialism)." - D. D. Bouchard, CHOICE
