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Leadership Education

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Featured Books!

Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci

This insightful book explores the life and ideas of Italian Marxist theoretician Antonio Gramsci, and argues his work has considerable contemporary relevance when re-considering educational leadership in today's age of crises.

Decolonizing and Indigenizing Visions of Educational Leadership

This edited collection centres the reclamation of global counter and Indigenous knowledges, epistemologies, ontologies, axiologies, and cosmovisions that have the capacity to create new educational leadership frameworks that chart courses to visions beyond the current oppressive systems of education. Contributing authors discuss what does it look like to have thriving decolonial educational systems? What is the educational leadership that is needed and required to get us there? What does it look like from these global Indigenous and decolonial perspectives? How do we begin dismantling dominant and colonial systems, structures and styles of leadership? Schooling and education in the wake of ongoing colonial injustices requires a revolutionary (re)awakening and the creation of schooling and educational systems that inherently honour the sacredness of life on this Earth, beyond the anthropocentric. The centring, reclamation and reaffirmation of global counter and Indigenous knowledges in educational leadership is not an individual, nor isolated endeavour. Through this understanding, this anthology is centred around themes of schooling, community building, liberatory praxis and decolonial movements, and Indigenous governance.

Mindful Educational Leadership

Mindful Educational Leadership unpacks the literature of mindfulness as it applies to K12 school leadership. Crossing disciplinary and theoretical boundaries, scholar and mindfulness coach Sharon Kruse explores mindfulness in three complementary research and philosophical traditions--contemplative, cognitive, and organizational--and applies it to school leadership. This book explores how these perspectives complement and inform each other and the ways in which understanding each can inform decision making, school/community engagement and responsiveness, and advancing equity in school organizations. Full of authentic examples, stories, and models of mindful leadership from real educators, this volume helps readers become more mindful and effective in their practice. An exciting resource for aspiring educational leaders, each chapter also includes supporting resources for study, practice, and reflection on key concepts.

Promoting Crisis Management and Creative Problem-Solving Skills in Educational Leadership

In the ever-evolving field of education, leaders face unprecedented challenges that require effective crisis management and creative problem-solving skills. The Covid-19 pandemic has further highlighted the critical need for innovative approaches to educational leadership to navigate through uncertainty, adapt to rapid changes, and ensure the sustainability of educational institutions. However, there is a significant research gap in this area, with limited resources available to guide leaders in the post-pandemic world. To address this pressing issue, Promoting Crisis Management and Creative Problem-Solving Skills in Educational Leadership offers a comprehensive solution. This book, authored by renowned scholars and practitioners, provides a roadmap for reimagining educational leadership and equipping leaders with the necessary skills to thrive in challenging times. By exploring various perspectives and drawing on real-world experiences, this book empowers educational leaders to effectively manage crises, inspire stakeholders, and guide their organizations toward success and sustainability. With its focus on crisis management, innovative problem-solving strategies, and the development of essential leadership competencies, this book fills the void in the existing literature. It not only offers insights into the unique challenges posed by the post-pandemic world but also provides practical guidance and actionable recommendations for leaders in educational settings. By reading this book, scholars, policymakers, researchers, and practitioners will gain valuable knowledge and tools to navigate the complexities of educational leadership, ensuring the continued growth and improvement of their institutions.

Self-Organised Schools

Self-Organised Schools: Educational Leadership and Innovative Learning Environments describes the results of the research we carried out at fourteen Italian schools that highlight how there is a positive correlation between the capabilities of school self-organization and the innovativeness of learning environments: in other words, the more self-organized schools are, the more innovative learning environments are. The results of this work are part of the strand of research of bottom-up emergency and self-organization, an extremely fruitful trend as shown by Sugata Mitra, the founder of the Self-Organized Learning Environments, according to whom, education is a self-organized system where learning is an emerging phenomenon. This book gives new insights on self-organization studies, and most of all, to the idea that change - organizational and educational innovation - sparks from the bottom. This book is aimed specifically at school principals of all levels, scholastic reformers, educational scholars, organisation and management consultants who want to innovate learning and management of learning. These actors will benefit drawing useful examples from more than thirty different learning environments worldwide, fourteen examples of schools that self-organize, two frameworks - and two ready-to-use questionnaires - measuring the innovativeness of a learning environment, and the capability of a school to self-organize. Self-organization is the most fascinating future of innovative principals