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Thinking About Schools - New Theories and Innovative Practice (Hardcover)
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Thinking About Schools - New Theories and Innovative Practice (Hardcover)
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As its title implies, this book has a deceptively simple mission:
to prepare would-be school leaders to draw upon a variety of
theoretical perspectives when thinking about schools and schooling.
It shows how theories can function as cognitive tools to be
mastered, carefully stored in one's intellectual toolbox and used
to interpret and resolve real world problems. Beneath this goal
lies the belief that the most effective leaders are those who are
able to construct their own well-grounded interpretations of events
and their own responses to those events. Key features of this
exciting new text include the following. Focus on Alternative
Theories - The functionalist theoretical views that have dominated
administrator preparation programs for the last half-century are
reviewed early in the book and are shown to be inadequate to the
task of understanding and coping with the complex realities of
modern day schooling. The remainder of the book presents
alternative views of schooling that, taken together, can be thought
of as a theoretical repertoire from which to construct
interpretations and solutions to everyday, real-world problems.
Focus on Diversity - Diversity is examined from a variety of
viewpoints. Chapter 6 looks at the cultural bases of leadership,
Chapter 7 at comparative and international contexts, and Chapter 8
at gender and sexual orientation. Illustrative Cases - Each chapter
contains a case with an embedded dilemma similar to those that
real-world administrators confront. While illustrating the
particular theoretical view presented in the chapter, these cases
are sufficiently complex that they lend themselves to
interpretation by any of the other theories considered in the book.
This book is appropriate for graduate-level courses with titles
such as Organizational Theory, Theory of School Leadership, or
Introduction to Educational Administration. It might also be use
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