Print version: Successful school leadership, Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- INTRODUCTION What Is Successful and Effective School Leadership? Petros Pashiardis and Olof Johansson -- Introductory comments -- Successful school leaders and successful schools: a brief historical account -- Effective school leaders and effective schools: a brief historical account -- Context as the bridge between success and effectiveness -- Successful and effective schools: do they mean the same thing to different people? -- Discussion and concluding comments -- PART ONE Developing Successful and Effective School Leadership -- 1 African Perspectives Jan Heystek Jan Heystek -- Introduction -- Historical perspective on South African educational context -- Principals' leadership development in South Africa -- Leadership development issues addressed in research not directly linked to the ACE programme in South Africa -- Current approaches to successful and effective school leadership development -- Conclusion -- 2 South Asian Perspectives Tai Hoi Theodore Lee, Allan David Walker and Philip Hallinger -- Education reform -- Influence of culture and tradition -- Common trends around the principalship in Southeast Asia -- Challenges for the principalship in Southeast Asia -- Looking forward -- 3 Australian and Pacific Perspectives Simon Clarke and Helen Wildy -- Introduction -- The importance of developing successful school leaders -- Our approach to investigating the realities of school leadership -- A conceptual framework for engaging with school leaders' work -- The use of the conceptual framework for developing successful school leaders -- Final thoughts -- 4 North American Perspectives Elizabeth T. Murakami and Wowek S. Kearney -- Introduction -- A brief overview of principals and guidelines for their preparation in the USA, Principal preparation programmes -- Recognized university programmes -- The search for the effective preparation of principals -- Towards global discussions of leadership effectiveness and sustainability -- 5 South American Perspectives Candido Alberto Gomes, Alexandre Ventura and Magali de Fátima Evangelista Machado -- The recent history of education in South America -- The reform agenda: decentralization, funding diversification and education evaluation -- Successful schools: convergence on school leadership -- Theoretical perspectives on school management -- School leadership in South America -- Converging and diverging themes -- 6 Caribbean Perspectives Paul Miller -- Introduction -- School leadership research in the Caribbean -- Conceptual framework -- Literature review -- Methodology -- Findings -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- 7 European Perspectives Helene Ärlestig -- Successful and effective schools: various interpretations based on history, politics and local context -- Changed expectations and norms of successful school leaders -- International cooperation and studies related to successful schools -- The future for school leadership research in Europe -- PART TWO Practising Successful and Effective School Leadership -- 8 African Perspectives Raj Mestry -- Introduction and background to the problem -- Understanding the concepts 'successful leadership' and 'effective leadership' -- Research methodology -- Findings -- Conclusion -- 9 South Asian Perspectives Elson Szeto, Yan Ni Annie Cheng and Allan David Walker -- Exploration of principal leadership practices in underprivileged schools -- Part I -- Part II -- Characteristics of principal leadership practices in the two schools -- Conclusion -- 10 Australian and Pacific Perspectives David Gurr and Lawrie Drysdale -- Introduction -- Evidence from the ISSPP: Australia, Evidence from the ISSPP: New Zealand -- Leaders other than the principal -- Reflection -- 11 North American Perspectives Stephen L. Jacobson -- Introduction and overview -- Research on school eff ectiveness and improvement -- Leadership as a collective construct -- Core leadership practices for school success and the ISSPP -- Sustained success: trust and leadership stability -- Concluding thoughts -- 12 Caribbean Perspectives Disraeli M. Hutton -- Introduction -- Approach to the chapter -- Research questions -- What are the characteristics of successful and effective leadership and what is the relationship between both? -- Defining the effective leadership -- What is the state of students' academic performance and how are their support systems and learning practices being strengthened in the school system? -- What are some of the practices and strategic interventions being implemented by schools and regional governments to realize successful and effective school leadership? -- Conclusion -- 13 European Perspectives Stefan Brauckmann and Petros Pashiardis -- The policy making and shaping of high quality leadership in school systems across Europe -- expectation setting -- Shaping school quality -- the role of school leaders -- High quality leadership across Europe in an era of output oriented governance -- why should it work? -- High quality leadership across different school contexts in Europe -- how could it work? -- PART THREE The Impact of Successful and Effective School Leadership -- 14 Understanding the Impact of Successful and Effective School Leadership as Practised Petros Pashiardis, Georgia Pashiardi and Olof Johansson -- Introduction -- The impact of successful and effective school leadership within the African context -- The impact of successful and effective school leadership within the South Asian context, The impact of successful and effective school leadership within the Australian/Pacific context -- The impact of successful and effective school leadership within the Caribbean context -- The impact of successful and effective school leadership within the European context -- The impact of successful and effective school eadership within the North American context -- The impact of successful and effective school leadership within the South American context -- Understanding the impact of successful and effective school leadership: concluding remarks and reflection -- Notes -- References -- Index
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