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School and System Leadership

Changing Roles for Primary Headteachers

Hardcover

Published: 1st March 2012
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This book considers the developing nature of school leadership and the impact of new roles for headteachers inside and outside school and system leadership. School leadership is undergoing significant change as headteachers respond to new opportunities and challenges offered to or imposed on them as a result of government policy. There have been increasing calls for transformational change to redesign the school system to provide a suitable workforce for the knowledge economy and to manage the anticipated shortage of future school leaders. Sue Robinson combines her professional experience as a practising primary headteacher and National Leader of Education with recent research into the impact of government policy on the roles of primary heads to offer an analysis of the shifting nature of school leadership. Headteachers have taken advantage of roles available including consultancy, leadership of academies and federations and children's centres. Including interview material with 27 'outstanding' primary headteachers, this is the first book combining research and practitioner insight to show how: heads have managed the educational agenda; how they have built capacity in school to sustain their new internal and external roles; their motivations, insights and experiences; and the implications for government educational policy and leadership development.

"'A tour de force of developments in school and system leadership in England' (Steve Munby, Chief Executive of the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services, UK)"

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Policy Contexts and the Challenges of Headship
The Changing Landscape of Headship: From Consensus to System Redesign
The Challenges of Headship: Policies and Themes from Labour's Second Term and The Coalition
Changing Roles: Leadership, Management and CPD
Changing School Organizations and Roles for Headteachers
The Development of New Roles for Headteachers
Changing Internal Roles and System Leadership
Standards, Accountability and Leadership
The Strategic Leader: Building Capacity
Findings and Implications for School Leadership and Government Policy
Key Findings for School Leadership
Implications and recommendations for Government Policy
References
Index
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ISBN: 9781441163998
ISBN-10: 1441163999
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 176
Published: 1st March 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.513