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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
S David Brazer; Scott C Bauer; Bob L Johnson |
ISBN: | 9781138039100 1138039101 9781138039094 1138039098 |
OCLC Number: | 1056201426 |
Description: | xviii, 258 pages ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Understanding organizations -- Understanding schools and districts as organizations -- Schools as open systems : there's a whole world out there -- School leadership as organized anarchy : taming the untamable beast -- Organizational learning -- What do leaders do? -- Leading schools -- Transformational leadership and change -- Leading instruction -- Leading with others : distributed leadership and its conceptual ancestors -- Epilogue : leading schools to learn, grow, and thrive. |
Responsibility: | S. David Brazer, Scott C. Bauer, and Bob L. Johnson, Jr. |
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"This book is a major resource for principal preparation programs that avoids simple management platitudes while providing thought provoking examples of dilemmas of leadership practice for discussion. The integration of organization theory and real cases will engage both instructors and students."--Karen Seashore Louis, Regents Professor, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota"This text provides a range of theoretical and historical perspectives on school organizations relevant to the work of educational leaders and engages readers in experiences intended to demonstrate the value of such perspectives for their practice. This is a very ambitious undertaking which is mostly quite successful."--Kenneth Leithwood, Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto Read more...

