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Teacher Education in Australia: Investigations into Programming, Practicum and Partnership.

By: David E. Lynch,Tony Yeigh

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Teacher Education in Australia: Investigations into Programming, Practicum and Partnership.

By: David E. Lynch,Tony Yeigh

In the last decade in Australia teacher education has undergone numerous critical reviews, yet little on the teacher education front appears to have changed. Related to this, the teaching profession's struggles to cope with a changing world have been publicly documented and an increasing push for improved school outcomes from Australian governments, at both the state and federal level, appear as regular pieces in the national press. This forms a complex situation involving competing concerns, and raises questions concerning what to make of the situation and how to move teacher education forward in Australia. This book seeks to answer these questions by providing an evidence-based framework for investigating and directing teacher education practice into the future.

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Lulu.com

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1300831634

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9781300831631

School District Leadership Matters

By: Bruce Sheppard,Jean Brown,David Dibbon

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School District Leadership Matters

By: Bruce Sheppard,Jean Brown,David Dibbon

School District Leadership Matters challenges policy makers, administrators, and academics in the field of educational leadership to reassess their traditional approaches to learning, working, and planning. The authors believe that government restructuring, standards-based reforms, and centrally imposed strategic planning have been painfully ineffective. As a consequence, student learning has become increasingly superficial and inauthentic. This book bridges the traditional divide between the generalizations of social science theory on the one hand and the world of educational practice on the other. It argues that a more promising approach to education reform is through effective school district leadership. Sheppard, Brown and Dibbon draw on their collective experience both as educational leaders and researchers of leadership, having spent five years researching and working in one school district. Here, they show how a district superintendent can successfully navigate the paradoxes and challenges of facilitating collaborative leadership in a school district with a traditionally hierarchical organizational structure. As a conclusion to their work, the authors highlight what they call five ‘recognitions’ that deepen readers’ understanding of school district leadership. They illuminate, too, ways that senior level practitioners can apply theory to practice in order to break down the traditional hierarchical bureaucracies that inhibit learning, and create professional learning communities. School District Leadership Matters urges researchers, graduate students, practitioners, and policymakers to focus on improving authentic learning for all students and argues that the best hope rests with effective school district leadership. This empirically-based yet practical book provides new insights and questions for academic researchers and will inspire policy makers and practitioners to imagine what could be and to work towards it.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402097476

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9781402097478

Effective Leadership for School Improvement

By: Alma Harris,Christopher Day,David Hopkins,Mark Hadfield,Andy Hargreaves,Christopher Chapman

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Effective Leadership for School Improvement

By: Alma Harris,Christopher Day,David Hopkins,Mark Hadfield,Andy Hargreaves,Christopher Chapman

In a complex and multi-layered world, the conventional idea of great leadership being the result of the efforts of a single individual is rapidly becoming redundant. This book takes up the challenge of finding an alternative method of leadership in educational contexts, and looks at how this can help achieve sustained improvement in schools. The authors acknowledge that there are no simple solutions to school improvement. They argue that the effective leaders of the future will be those who are able to share responsibility, build positive relationships and offer stakeholders - teachers, parents and students - an opportunity to work together to improve their schools. The book is based around four key areas of concern: the changing context of leadership, leadership and school improvement, building leadership capacity, and future direction and implications. In each section, the authors discuss current theories and issues, and put forward alternative ideas and perspectives. This important book will make valuable reading for headteachers, principles, deputies and other senior teachers, particularly those undertaking leadership qualifications and training. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students and school governors.

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Routledge

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1134700989

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9781134700981

Religion and Canadian Party Politics

By: David Rayside,Jerald Sabin,Paul E.J. Thomas

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Religion and Canadian Party Politics

By: David Rayside,Jerald Sabin,Paul E.J. Thomas

Religion is usually thought of as inconsequential to contemporary Canadian politics. Religion and Canadian Party Politics takes a hard look at just how much influence faith continues to have in federal, provincial, and territorial political arenas. Drawing on case studies from across the country, this book explores three important axes of religiously based contention in Canada. Early on, there were the denominational distinctions between Catholics and Protestants that shaped party oppositions. Since the 1960s, a newly politicized divide opened between religious conservatives and political reformers. Then from the 1990s on, sporadic controversy has centred on the recognition of non-Christian religious minority rights. Although the extent of partisan engagement with each of these sources of conflict has varied across time and region, this book shows that religion still matters in shaping party politics . This detailed look at the play of religiously based conflict and accommodation in Canada fills a large gap and pulls us back from overly simplified comparisons with the United States. More broadly, this book also compares the role of faith in politics in Canada to that of other Western industrialized societies.

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UBC Press

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0774835613

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9780774835619

School District Leadership Matters

By: Bruce Sheppard,Jean Brown,David Dibbon

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By: Bruce Sheppard,Jean Brown,David Dibbon

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Teacher Education in Australia: Investigations into Programming, Practicum and Partnership.

Teacher Education in Australia: Investigations into Programming, Practicum and Partnership.

School District Leadership Matters

School District Leadership Matters

Effective Leadership for School Improvement

Effective Leadership for School Improvement

Religion and Canadian Party Politics

Religion and Canadian Party Politics

School District Leadership Matters

School District Leadership Matters

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