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Unmasking School Leadership - A Longitudinal Life History of School Leaders (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Unmasking School Leadership - A Longitudinal Life History of School Leaders (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Series: Studies in Educational Leadership, 20
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This book is a longitudinal life history of the lives and work of
primary school principals in Ireland. It provides a unique
opportunity to peer inside the realities of leading schools in
changing times. In a system that until recently did not prepare
principals for the onerous roles and responsibilities, a small
system with limited mobility, inter-personal relationships emerge
as critical, frequently privileged over professional relationships.
Consequently, principals struggle to bring about change, to build
trust in order to cultivate a transformative leadership agenda,
while several aspects of systemic structures and processes emerge
as constraints on leadership capacity building. In the absence of
comprehensive leadership portfolio development, classroom teachers,
catapulted into the principal's office, tend to be cautious and
careful in ways that tend to perpetuate the status quo while
putting a premium on the exercise of soft power and an
over-reliance on the good will of colleagues. Several of the
'leadership lessons' that emerge from this in-depth analysis concur
with an increasing international consensus that due to complexity
and increasingly performative policy demands, learning about
leadership for all is an absolute necessity. However, care must be
taken to avoid overly scripted programmes. Critical to the
cultivation of a professionally responsible leadership disposition,
rather than capitulation to 'technologies of control,' is
professional renewal cultivated through adequate attention to the
Zone of Proximal Distance.
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