Australian Journal of Education back issues from November 2007:
Introduction by the guest editor.(SPECIAL ISSUE: Educational leadership and school renewal)
Nov 01, 2007; ... The distinguished Harvard scholar John Kotter provided what is generally regarded as the most helpful distinction between leadership and management to be found in the literature (Kotter, 1990). Leadership calls for establishing direction, aligning people, motivating and inspiring, and ...
Successful school leadership: what is it and who decides?
Nov 01, 2007; ... Arguments presented in this paper and the evidence from the Tasmanian Successful School Principals Project support broadening what counts for successful schools and school leadership. This broadening needs to embrace student outcomes, including non-cognitive social outcomes such as student ...
The leadership of the improvement of teaching and learning: lessons from initiatives with positive outcomes for students.
Nov 01, 2007; ... The purpose of this study was to examine how leaders foster school renewal by facilitating and participating in the types of teacher professional learning and development that improve student academic and nonacademic outcomes. The methodology involved a backward mapping strategy that takes ...
How schools get moving and keep improving: leadership for teacher learning, student success and school renewal.
Nov 01, 2007; ... There is a vast body of research confirming the important influence of the classroom teacher on student achievement. A key issue, then, is how the quality of teaching and learning within individual classrooms can be influenced and improved. This paper argues that educational leadership is ...
Student leadership: necessary research.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Interest in student leadership or leadership by young people has always existed in school and community settings and while there are many programs devoted to leadership development and training, we believe that there is a need for focused research into what young people conceive leadership ...
Educational leadership and school renewal in Wales.
Nov 01, 2007; ... The paper sets out the main characteristics of the school system in Wales since 1999 when responsibility for education was devolved to the newly-created National Assembly for Wales. It moves on to consider the advances made in student attainment during this period, some of which can be ...
System leadership for educational renewal in England: the case of federations and executive heads.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Executive heads are those head teachers in England who lead two or more schools that have entered into a federation. One of the more common forms of federations involves a lead school working to improve a partner school (or schools). The executive heads of these federations, and their ...
Renewing the mind or bringing the knowledge age to the schoolhouse.
Nov 01, 2007; ... The purpose of this article is twofold. The first objective is to update the traditional craft of education by revising the folk theory of mind that underpins such traditions. This is necessary if we are to develop a new learning science as the cornerstone for the renewal of the education ...
Going through the emotions: leadership that gets to the heart of school renewal.
Nov 01, 2007; ... Holistic school renewal will require a qualitatively different discourse than the current uneasy conversations about school improvement and school effectiveness. Leadership for whole school renewal requires emotionally safe spaces for learning and growing together. Visions of school ...
Developing Sustainable Leadership.(Book review)
Nov 01, 2007; ... Developing Sustainable Leadership Brent Davies (Ed.) London: Paul Chapman Educational Publishing/Sage, 2007, ISBN 1 412 923 964 Sustainability is one of the emerging concepts in education--in this book Deal refers it as 'today's hot idea in good currency' (p. 95). Perhaps ...