This book puts 'real life' back into the literature on school
principalship. Through a life history approach, it portrays daily
life in schools as a much more messy, contested and precarious
existence, where principals struggle with passionate commitment to
find continuity amongst frequently changing and often conflicting
policy initiatives. The book draws on comprehensively in-depth
interview data with new, experienced and veteran principals. Their
life stories illustrate the struggles involved in the ongoing
negotiation of identities through unprecedented change. The authors
lucidly argue that: * The realities of principals' lives are much
more demanding that rational linear approaches to reform suggest; *
A revolving door approach to the appointment of principals is
inadequate * Passion is central to the lives and work of
principals, but this passion needs to be rejuvenated and rekindled
through opportunities for learning * There is a need for further
research on the relationship between the lifecycles of principals,
the leadership legacies of school communities and the cycles of
mandated reforms as a means of lending coherence to leadership
learning and sustained and renewed leaders. This is essential
reading for principals and their professional bodies, academics and
researchers, school leaders on leadership courses internationally.
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