The Assistant Principal: Leadership Choices and Challenges - Brossura

Marshall, Catherine

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0803961103 ISBN 13: 9780803961104

Casa editrice: Corwin Press Inc, 1993

Riassunto

Filling a gap in the school leadership literature, this is the first book to focus on understanding the assistant principal's role in the US education system, how assistant principals get their jobs, how they are socialized, the problems and opportunities they encounter, and how they can take charge of their careers and make their position satisfying.

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L'autore

Catherine Marshall is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Formerly a teacher in Rhode Island, her studies and career moves include doctoral studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, and faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University before moving in 1991 to Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research interests include the use an interdisciplinary approach to analyze school cultures, state policy systems, and the professional development of adults working in organizations. She has published extensively about the politics of education, qualitative methodology, and women's access to careers as well as about the socialization, language, and values in educational leadership. She is the author of Reframing Educational Politics for Social Justice (Allyn & Bacon, 2004); Leadership for Social Justice: Making Revolutions in Education, Culture and Education Policy in the American States (Allyn & Bacon, 2005); and Designing Qualitative Research, Fifth Edition (SAGE, 2010), as well as a number of other books and numerous journal articles.

Contenuti

What is Special about Assistant Principals?
How do Assistant Principals get their Jobs?
Progress in Understanding the Assistant's Role
Opportunities for Improving the Assistant Principalship
A New and Different Assistant Principalship

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Corwin Press Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0803961103
• ISBN 13: 9780803961104
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 144