The SAGE Handbook of Educational Leadership
Advances in Theory, Research, and Practice

Second Edition

Edited by:

Fenwick W. English - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Courses:
Introduction to Educational Administration/ Leadership | Introduction to Educational Administration/ Leadership | Leadership | Leadership

January 2011 | 472 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This fully updated Second Edition offers an unflinching and comprehensive overview of the full range of both practical and theoretical issues facing educational leadership today. Editor Fenwick W. English and 30 renowned authors boldly address the most fundamental and contested issues in the field, including culturally relevant and distributed leadership; critical policy and practice issues predicting the new century's conflict; the paradox of changes; and the promises, paradoxes, and pitfalls of standards for educational leaders.

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Fenwick W. English

Introduction: Educational Leadership at Century?s Beginning?A Continuing Search for the Philosopher?s Stone

PART I: MULTIPLE LENSES OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP

Ira E. Bogotch

1. A History of Public School Leadership: The First Century, 1837?1942

Floyd D. Beachum

2. Culturally Relevant Leadership for Complex 21st-Century School Contexts

Alan R. Shoho, Betty M. Merchant, and Catherine A. Lugg

3.Social Justice: Seeking a Common Language

Jeffrey S. Brooks and Lisa A. W. Kensler

4. Distributed Leadership and Democratic Community

PART II: MANAGEMENT, ORGANIZATION, AND LAW

Carol A. Mullen

5. The Paradox of Change in Public Schooling and Education Leadership

Kathleen M. Brown

6. Pivotal Points: History, Development, and Promise of the Principalship

Theodore J. Kowalski and C. Cryss Brunner

7. The School Superintendent: Roles, Challenges, and Issues

Charles J. Russo

8. The Role of Education Law in Leadership Preparation Programs

PART III: EDUATIONAL POLITICS AND POLICY: CREATING EFFECTIVE, EQUITABLE, AND DEMOCRATIC SCHOOLS

JoAnn Danelo Barbour

9. Critical Policy/Practice Arenas Predicting 21st-Century Conflict

Gary L. Anderson and Monica Pini

10. Educational Leadership and the New Economy: Keeping the ?Public? in Public Schools

Rosemary Papa

11. Standards for Educational Leaders: Promises, Paradoxes, and Pitfalls

Charol Shakeshaft

12. Wild Patience: Women in School Administration

Cheryl L. Bolton

13. Metanoia in Educational Leadership: An Alternative Perspective for School Leadership

PART IV: THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP: RESEARCH PROBLEMS AND PRACTICES

Michelle D. Young and Gerardo R. Lopez

14. The Nature of Inquiry in Educational Leadership

Gary M. Crow and Margaret Grogan

15. The Development of Leadership Thought and Practice in the United States

Eugenie A. Samier

16. Exploring Aesthetic Dimensions of Leadership: Re-establishing Human Agency

PART V: THE MICROPOLITICS OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

Fenwick W. English and Betty E. Steffy

17. Curriculum Leadership: The Administrative Survival Skill in a Test-Driven Culture and a Competitive Educational Marketplace

Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.

18. Teacher Preparation and Staffing in U.S. Schools

Robert J. Wright

19. The Gaposis Syndrome: Uses and Misuses of Tests

Eric Haas and Leslie Poynor

20. Issues of Teaching and Learning

Jeffrey A. Lackney

21. New Approaches for School Design

Todd A. DeMitchell

22. Labor Relations and the Challenges of Leading

William K. Poston, Jr.

23. Budgeting, Finance, and Planning

Author Index

Subject Index

About the Editor

About the Contributors

Key features

New to this Edition

This landmark work has been thoroughly updated and revised, with more than 75% new or revised content.
Ten of the prior edition's chapters have been replaced with ten new chapters in this edition.
New chapters include topics such as distributed leadership and democratic community, standards for educational leaders, teacher preparation and staffing, and the uses and misuses of tests in accountability schemes known as "the gaposis syndrome."
The Introduction to the Second edition and each section introduction has been rewritten Includes new chapters from international scholars giving readers a more global perspective

Key Features

This Handbook combines both applied and scholarly issues that face educational leadership at the level of preparation and practice, offering wide-ranging coverage that appeals to scholars, researchers, and practitioners alike.
Chapters in the Handbook examine issues long relevant to the field as well as current hot-button topics, and nearly every chapter links the history of educational leadership to current thought and actual operations in the field, helping the reader to fully grasp the implications for development and application.
Chapter-by-chapter syntheses of prior research and practice are combined with a robust focus on issues likely to face educational leaders in the coming century based on thoughtful analyses of current trends.

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1. A History of Public School Leadership

2. Culturally Relevant Leadership for Complex 21st Century School Contexts

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