Democratic Principals in Action: Eight Pioneers - Brossura

9780803961326: Democratic Principals in Action: Eight Pioneers

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ISBN 10: 0803961324 ISBN 13: 9780803961326

Casa editrice: Corwin Pr, 1995

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Grounded in the day-to-day practicalities of school life, this book records the shared musings of eight principals in their attempts to achieve the ideals of democracy and empowerment in their schools. In each case, these ideals are tempered by a range of bureaucratic and political obstacles, contradictions and complexities inherent in the education system.

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L'autore

Joseph Blase is a professor of educational administration at the University of Georgia. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1980 from Syracuse University, his research has focused on school reform, transformational leadership, the micropolitics of education, principal-teacher relationships, and the work lives of teachers. His work concentrating on school-level micropolitics received the 1988 Davis Memorial Award given by the University Council for Educational Administration, and his coauthored article published in the Journal of Educational Administration won the W. G. Walker 2000 Award for Excellence. In 1999 he was recognized as an elite scholar, one of the 50 Most Productive and Influential Scholars of Educational Administration in the world. Blase’s books include The Politics of Life in Schools: Power, Conflict, and Cooperation (winner of the 1994 Critic’s Choice Award sponsored by the American Education Studies Association), Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (1994, 2000, 2008); The Micropolitics of Educational Leadership (1995), Empowering Teachers (1994, 2000), Democratic Principals in Action (1995), The Fire Is Back (1997), Handbook of Instructional Leadership (1998, 2004), Breaking the Silence (2003), and Teachers Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (2006). His recent research (coauthored with Jo Blase and Du Fengning, 2008), a national study of principal mistreatment of teachers, appeared in The Journal of Educational Administration. Professor Blase has published over 120 academic articles, chapters, and books.

Contenuti

Foreword - William D Greenfield Jr
Studying Principals' Leadership
A Democratic Leader
Eliciting Teacher Voice and Monitoring Student Equity
Teacher of Teachers
Empowerment in an Elementary School
Tough Love
Loyalty, Commitment and Challenge in a Predominantly African American Middle School
Matchmaker
Initiating Democratic Schooling in a Large High School
Guardian of the Mission
The Suburban High School Experience
Gentle Pushes
Strength and Humanism in a Rural Secondary School
"We're All in this Together"
Shared-Governance Experiences in a Middle and a High School
Learning Democracy Together
Struggling with Shared Goverance in an Elementary School
Democratic Leadership
Lessons Learned
Resource A
Research Methods and Procedures