Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Leadership theories and values. An overview of the leadership discourses / Simon Western -- From successful school leadership towards distributed leadership / Leif Moos -- Leading with moral purpose: the place of ethics / Paul T. Begley -- Emotional intelligence, emotional labour and affective leadership / Sam Held and Judy McKimm -- Part 2: Strategic leadership and managing change. Concepts of leadership in organizational change / Gill Robinson Hickman -- The nature and dimensions of strategic leadership / Brent Davies and Barbara J. Davies -- The strategy lenses / Gerry Johnson, Richard Whittington and Kevan Scholes -- The practice of leadership in the messy world of organizations / Jean-Louis Denis, Ann Langley and Linda Rouleau -- Part 3: Leadership in context. Reframing the role of organizations in policy implementation: resources for practice, in practice / James P. Spillane, Louis M. Gomez and Leigh Mesler -- Contextualizing leader dynamics: how public service leaders endeavour to build influence / Mike Wallace and Michael Tomlinson -- Stories of compliance and subversion in a prescriptive policy environment / John MacBeath -- Evaluation, accountability, and performance measurement in national education systems: trends, methods, and issues / Katherine E. Ryan and Irwin Feller -- 'Blended leadership' : employee perspectives on effective leadership in the UK further education sector / David Collinson and Margaret Collinson -- Leadership for diversity and inclusion / Jacky Lumby -- Part 4: Partnerships and collaboration. Reconfiguring urban leadership: taking a perspective on community / Kathryn A. Riley -- Networks as power bases for school improvement / Tessa A. Moore and Michael P. Kelly -- Inter-professional work and expertise: new roles at the boundaries of schools / Anne Edwards, Ingrid Lunt and Eleni Stamou -- Approaches to system leadership: lessons learned and policy pointers / Beatriz Pont and David Hopkins -- Part 5: Looking to the future. Leadership, participation and power in the school system / Richard Hatcher -- The fourth way / Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley.

The book explores major challenges for educational leaders in managing the increasingly permeable boundary between educational organizations and their external contexts.--[book cover]

The book explores major challenges for educational leaders in managing the increasingly permeable boundary between educational organizations and their external contexts.--[book cover]