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Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on educational reform, leadership development programs and professional development processes intended to prepare and develop prospective and practicing educational leaders into leadership positions and examines issues that affect leaders serving in the role of educational leader/learner.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Introduction: Global perspectives on educational leadership reform: The development and preparation of leaders of learning and learners of leadership. Connecting ‘up there’ with ‘down here’: Thoughts on globalisation, neo-liberalism and leadership praxis. Building the leaders we need: The role of presence, learning conditions, and andragogy in developing leaders who can change the face of public Pre-K through 12 education. The new principal preparation program model in Israel: Ponderings about practice-oriented principal training. Development of university education in Democratic Republic of Congo: Is a shift in policy making possible to implement the perspective of lifelong learning?. Free to become: The essence of learning and leading. Development and preparation of leaders of learning and learners of leadership. Policies and paradox: A view of school leadership in the context of aboriginal education in Ontario, Canada. Poipoia kia p??wai: A project to explore growth into leadership and cultural appropriacy in preservice teacher education. Developing school leaders in times of radical change: Investigating the school improvement zone of a large urban school district in United States. Leading pedagogy: Promoting school reform through teacher leadership and the implementation of a culturally responsive pedagogy of relations. Leadership for inclusive schools and inclusive school leadership. Zero-tolerance policies and administrative decision making: The case for restorative justice-based school discipline reform. Leaders transforming learning and learners: An Australian innovation in leadership, learning and moral purpose. Fostering community-based learning leadership: A Korea–Zambia project design. An international collaboration: Examining graduate educational leadership in Louisiana and Ontario. Building adult educational programs in entrepreneurship based on mezirow: the case of agricultural entrepreneurship. Leading upstream: Professional learning for middle leaders. The changing face of purpose-driven school administration: Green school leadership. Leading schools in the knowledge society: On the way to leaders of learning in inquiry-based schools. Author biographies. Index. Advances in Educational Administration. Advances in Educational Administration. Copyright page.
