Leading Professional Practice in Education

Download or read book Leading Professional Practice in Education written by Christine Wise and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an overview of key contemporary themes in educational leadership. It focuses on developing professional capacity, organisation improvement and the implementation of change, looking at theoretical frameworks and concepts, recent research studies and case examples of effective practice. The book covers: - leading learning and learner leadership - change processes and distributed leadership - leading professional development for educational contexts. Designed to encourage critical analysis and debate, this volume will be a useful resource for postgraduate and professional development courses in educational leadership and for practitioners. It is a companion to Educational Leadership: Context, Strategy and Collaboration, also published by Sage.