Leading Professional Practice in Education

This volume provides an overview of key contemporary themes in educational leadership. It focuses on developing professional capacity, organisation improvement and the implementation of change, looking at theoretical frameworks and concepts, recent research studies and case examples of effective practice. The book covers: @! leading learning and learner leadership @! change processes and distributed leadership @! leading professional development for educational contexts. Designed to encourage critical analysis and debate, this volume will be a useful resource for postgraduate and professional development courses in educational leadership and for practitioners. It is a companion to Educational Leadership: Context, Strategy and Collaboration, also published by Sage.

“'This excellent compilation provides a valuable overview of key themes and issues, enabling the reader to engage critically with emerging ideas and debates' -Professor Tim Simkins, Sheffield Hallam University 'This timely collection brings together important writings to critically examine the complex issue of leadership for learning and how pupil, professional and institutional learning are inextricably linked. Highly recommended' - Professor Peter Earley, London Centre for Leadership in Learning”

′This excellent compilation provides a valuable overview of key themes and issues, enabling the reader to engage critically with emerging ideas and debates′-Professor Tim Simkins, Sheffield Hallam University

′This timely collection brings together important writings to critically examine the complex issue of leadership for learning and how pupil, professional and institutional learning are inextricably linked. Highly recommended′
- Professor Peter Earley, London Centre for Leadership in Learning

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