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The Moral imperative of school leadership / Michael Fullan

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin Press, c2003Description: xvi, 88 pages : Illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780761938736
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB 2831.9 .F85 2003
Contents:
1. Changing the context -- The public schools we need -- The principals and teachers we need -- 2. Barriers to school leadership -- Self-imposed barriers -- System-imposed barriers -- 3. The moral imperative at the school level -- Level 1: Making a difference in individuals -- Level 2: Making a difference in the school -- The emerging image of the moral imperative of the principalship -- 4. Making a difference beyond the school -- Level 3: Making a difference regionally -- Level 4: School leadership and society -- 5. How to get there: the individual and the system -- The individual -- The system.
Summary: In this text, the author argues that the role of the principal is pivotal to systemic school change. He then goes on to examine the moral purpose of school leadership, and calls for school principals to become agents as well as beneficiaries of the processes of school change.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Graduate Studies General Circulation Gen. Ed - CEAS GC LB 2831.9 .F85 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000011789

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Changing the context -- The public schools we need -- The principals and teachers we need -- 2. Barriers to school leadership -- Self-imposed barriers -- System-imposed barriers -- 3. The moral imperative at the school level -- Level 1: Making a difference in individuals -- Level 2: Making a difference in the school -- The emerging image of the moral imperative of the principalship -- 4. Making a difference beyond the school -- Level 3: Making a difference regionally -- Level 4: School leadership and society -- 5. How to get there: the individual and the system -- The individual -- The system.

In this text, the author argues that the role of the principal is pivotal to systemic school change. He then goes on to examine the moral purpose of school leadership, and calls for school principals to become agents as well as beneficiaries of the processes of school change.

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