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Leadership in Post Compulsory Education

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This is an empirical study of everyday leadership practices in action in a post-compulsory education context. The issue of 'leadership'; the need for good, insightful and decisive leaders is a prominent theme in Education. Yet few can define exactly what leadership is. This book examines the phenomenon of leadership in post-compulsory education through the careful description and analysis of a long-term observational study of college Principals at work. In contrast to other, more theoretical, attempts to understand leadership, this book develops an understanding of leadership by pointing to specific examples of what leaders actually do as they go about their everyday work of resolving organisational issues. Instead of presenting leaders as charismatic heroes this book investigates a number of familiar, routine, aspects of everyday leadership work: how leadership is 'performed'; the various technologies - email, documents, slide presentations - involved in leadership work; the everyday management of organisational personnel and meetings; and, how success and failure is defined and understood by the leaders themselves. It concludes with some suggestions of what is learned from understanding leadership as everyday work and some 'cautionary tales' for those who would become educational leaders themselves.

Author Biography

Connor Graham is a Researcher in the Computing Department at Lancaster University, UK, and an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Marian Iszatt-White is a Teaching Fellow in the Management Development Division of Lancaster University Management School, UK. Simon Kelly is a Lecturer in the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology of Lancaster University Management School, UK. David Randall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Mark Rouncefield is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Computing, Lancaster University, UK. He was Director of the 'Explicating Leadership' and 'Technologies of Leadership' projects and is particularly associated with the development of ethnographic research methods.
Release date NZ
March 24th, 2011
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
Country of Publication
United States
Imprint
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Pages
208
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Dimensions
156x234x23
ISBN-13
9781441156990
Product ID
9975267

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